LAN Switching Foundation Technologies

VTP Mode Best Practices Some environments still deploy VTP server/client mode, while others stick with transparent mode. It is recommended that you configure VTP for transparent mode for a number of reasons, aside from the revision number issue. If an engineer ... [full story]

Why MLS? The first Cisco switches did not have any Layer 3 routing capability. They merely switched frames at Layer 2 between hosts on the same VLAN. All inter-VLAN switching was forwarded to the router. The switch was many times faster ... [full story]