What Is Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)? Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is a protocol used in network security for the validation of a user’s identity.It is primarily used to authenticate a user or a network host to an authenticating entity, such as a server.CHAP is commonly used in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connections, which are often found in… Read More »
Some obstacles can cause a breach or delay even loss of communication over the network. As the internet grows beyond prediction, the modern network’s support for traffic is getting beyond the traditional data types and becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. Communication over the network involves email, file sharing, or web traffic and increasingly, data networks share a common… Read More »
What Is QoS? Quality of Service (QoS) in networking refers to the management of network resources to ensure the best performance of specific types of data transmission. The primary goal of QoS is to provide priority, including dedicated bandwidth, controlled jitter and congestion, and improved loss situations. It’s used to guarantee a certain level of a network service’s… Read More »
Split Horizon, Route Poisoning and Holddown Explained. Split Horizon RIP as a distance vector protocol is also susceptible to routing loops (network problem which enables a data packet to continually be routed through the same routers over and over. The data packets continue to be routed within the network in an endless circle.). Split horizon is one of… Read More »
What is Router-on-a-stick Inter-VLAN Routing? Router-on-a-stick is a type of router configuration method in which a single physical interface manages traffic between multiple VLANs on a network. The router interface has to be configured to operate as a trunk link connected to a switch port (SW1) and enabled in trunk mode. The router receives VLAN-tagged traffic on the… Read More »
