Network Management Strategies for the CIO
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I just purchased a Cisco 2611 router and I'd like to know if it's possible to configure FE1 as a DHC
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What will be the biggest impact of IPv6?
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Using route analytics to ensure that 'best practices' for routing maintenance really work
IP routing is one of network management's most complex domains. And no wonder: not only are routing protocols highly automated and distributed in nature, but routing errors can have a large-scale, sometimes calamitous, impact on quality and availab... Tech Article
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How QoS appliances subdue VoIP bugbears
QoS appliances look deep into packets to counteract delay, jitter and packet loss, improving call quality. David Jacobs explains how in this tip. Tip
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Router Expert: Building a WLAN proxy server, IP routing
This tip describes how to configure a multi-interface Linux server so it reaches all of the networks beyond all of its local interfaces by implementing a static kernel IP route table. Tip
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Media Access Control layer (MAC layer)
In the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model of communication, the Media Access Control layer is one of two sublayers of the Data Link Control layer and is concerned with sharing the physical connection to the network among several computers. Definition
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care-of address
In Internet routing, a care-of address is a temporary IP address for a mobile node (mobile device) that enables message delivery when the device is connecting from somewhere other than its home network. Definition
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home address
In the Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP), a home address is the relatively permanent IP address given to a mobile node. Definition