2015.7.10

Conventional network security often focuses more on ACLs blocking traffic either inbound or outbound but Cisco switches do have the capability to secure switchports for inbound traffic by pinpointing and limiting ingress packets based on source Ethernet Mac Addresses. This is huge as now we can control at an even more granular level who gets [ Read More ]

The term “Storm” in Networking refers to packets flooding a specific broadcast domain which ultimately results in poor network performance. Cisco came up with a solution to mitigate such detrimental scenarios and it’s called “Storm Control” sometimes referred to as “Traffic Suppression”. As the name implies, it basically monitors incoming traffic levels every second and compare it with a [ Read More ]