Windows Server LBFO with Cisco IOS
Oct13

Windows Server LBFO with Cisco IOS

LBFO with Cisco KB ID 0001931 Problem: LBFO with Cisco In Windows LBFO (Load Balancing Fail Over), commonly referred to as Teaming, is a method of combining multiple physical* NICs into one logical NIC (Team).  *Note: It is possible to team virtual NICS in a VM, but redundancy and failover in a hypervisor environment are usually handled by virtual switches. Solution Common Sense Check and Tech Tips Remember, if you are not at the same...

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Implementing GDOI into DMVPN
May29

Implementing GDOI into DMVPN

GDOI into DMVPN KB ID 0000956  Problem Just recently I covered DMVPN, which is a great scalable system for adding new sites to your network infrastructure and have them join an existing VPN solution without the need to add extra config at the ‘hub’ site. One of the advantages of DMVPN is it maintains VPN connections from your ‘Spoke’ sites back to the ‘Hub’ site, but if a spoke site needs to speak...

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Cisco Small Business (SG500) Link Aggregation (LAG) With LACP
Feb26

Cisco Small Business (SG500) Link Aggregation (LAG) With LACP

KB ID 0001277  Problem At work a client was having trouble with a NAS Drive (Buffalo Terastation). It was being used as a backup target and some of the servers were dropping connections. I knew the client had some Catalist 3750’s So I suggested going and creating an Ether Channel to the two NICs in the NAS box, to try and cure the problem. However when I went onsite, I noticed the 3750 didn’t have any spare Gigabit ports...

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