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What causes total output drops on a cisco switch interface?

I have an HP c7000 blade chassis which contains Cisco 3120X and Cisco 3120G switches running ios 12.2(58)SE1. The blades themselves are very lightly loaded yet many interfaces on different blade ...

cisco cisco-catalyst switch cisco-ios-12  
user avatar asked by User123456 Score of 17
user avatar answered by Aaron Score of 14

RJ45 Cable only has 4 wires

The cable that connects to my rj45 only has 4 cables, blue, orange, blue stripe, orange stripe. When I connect them to their corresponding ports, there is no internet connection.(Blue = 4, Orange = 6, ...

ethernet layer1 cable t568b t568a  
user avatar asked by Kevin Zhang Score of 7
user avatar answered by Ron Maupin Score of 11

What is real difference between host and node in network

According to wikipedia host is A network host is a computer or other device connected to a computer network. A network host may offer information resources, services, and applications to users or ...

lan network-access  
user avatar asked by apm Score of 19
user avatar answered by Eddie Score of 23

Why do I see a RST, ACK packet instead of a RST packet?

Looking in Wireshark, I often see TCP Streams end with a RST, ACK packet instead of a RST packet. Anyone know why this is? An example of what I see: SYN SYN, ACK ...data... RST, ACK Wireshark is ...

wireshark  
user avatar asked by packetwrassler Score of 57
user avatar answered by Santino Score of 70

Ping port number?

Yesterday an interviewer asked me what the port number for ping is and which protocol ping uses: TCP or UDP. After the interview, I searched on the Internet and found different results: someone says ...

tcp ping udp icmp  
user avatar asked by Nishad Morey Score of 81
user avatar answered by Martin Rosenau Score of 18

How can the Cisco Packet Tracer show the port's name?

How can the Cisco Packet Tracer show the port's name? the GNS3 can show its interface name.

cisco router  
user avatar asked by 244boy Score of 2
user avatar answered by aircraft Score of 6

What are the benefits and cons of IGMP snooping?

Our new router is asking if we want IGMP snooping enabled. Not being familiar with this, I looked to the internet and got the following wiki description: IGMP snooping is the process of listening to ...

router security multicast igmp  
user avatar asked by HorusKol Score of 30
user avatar answered by Ricky Score of 22
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