What Is Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) The Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) is a Cisco proprietary protocol that is automatically enabled on Catalyst 2960 and Catalyst 3560 Series switches. DTP is used to negotiate to form a trunk link between two or more Cisco devices before actually forming the trunk connection. The main benefit of DTP is to increase… Read More »
What Is eBGP Multi-hop? eBGP (External Border Gateway Protocol) Multi-hop is a networking method in the field of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing, which is crucial in the internet’s framework.BGP, as a path vector protocol, is responsible for exchanging routing information between autonomous systems (ASes), which are large networks or groupings of networks under a common administration, often… Read More »
What is EtherChannel? The process used to bundle ports together in an ethernet switch to achieve higher bandwidth is known as EtherChannel or link aggregation. Link aggregation can be useful when interconnecting switches together and when interconnecting other devices to a switch, e.g. you can use EtherChannel when you need to connect a switch to a server with multiple network adaptors or… Read More »
