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In this blog post, we will delve into what a Network Switch LAG is and how it can significantly enhance the performance and reliability of your network. Unpacking the Concept: What is a Network Switch LAG? Link Aggregation, or Network Switch LAG, is a networking technique that allows multiple physical network links to be combined … Read more
Our friend Rick Frey has a great tutorial on VLANs on Mikrotik RouterOS and configuration
The folks over at Netonix have released a recover to help out with Console recovery on their switches. https://forum.netonix.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5902&sid=4279b7f772acf222b45382b25bdebb26 From the Blog Post This automate’s the process of recovering a switch via the serial port. You just need to download the recovery.tar.gz file
As networking trends yo-yo between layer-3 and layer-2 centric different protocols have emerged. Protocols such as Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL), Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) have emerged to address the need of scalability at Layer2. Cloud scalability, spanning tree bridging issues, and big broadcast networks start to become … Read more
A great article on explaining what OTV is and how it compares to VXLAN http://www.routexp.com/2017/04/vxlan-and-otv-what-is-difference.html?m=1