Once you're ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let's answer some of the most frequently asked questions and explore the basic configuration of Cisco ...

Command schedulers allow you to run commands, or a sequence of commands, once or on a recurring calendar. Learn how you can use the Cisco IOS command scheduler to back up your router's running ...

The big question we’ve been looking at for the last few weeks is the value of a 2 switch lab topology for prepping Spanning Tree topics for both CCNA and CCNP. I’ll conclude the discussion this week, ...

Is there a way to interrogate a SFP in a Cisco switch (2950, 3750, etc) in order to glean info about fiber quality? Noise, signal loss.. my company is too cheap to buy a real fiber tester.