I have two Cisco Catalyst switches in the 2900 series. I want to monitor all of the traffic on the two switches. Of course the IDS sensor I want to use only has one port and can't be connected to both ...

I have often wondered why manufacturers of Ethernet switches severely restrict the number of SPAN/port-monitoring sessions they allow to be configured. I can only assume that they are limited because ...

We're running version 14 of Whatsupgold, and we've a whole campus full of Cisco switches we want monitored. So far everything works great, except that when someone plugs a computer into a wall jack, ...

A TechRepublic reader recently e-mailed me to ask about limiting the bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port. In fact, there are a number of uses for this configuration. Let's take a closer look. A ...

As more and more of our network infrastructure gets older and/or fails, we are going to a switched configuration instead of the hubs that were initially used to set up the network. We have used mostly ...

Networking giant Cisco has released two additions to its Nexus 3000 series of low-latency switches targeted specifically for high-frequency traders, featuring network monitoring capabilities to manage ...