Nutter helps a reader with a new Catalyst switch and a handful of Macs I just converted my company over to a Cisco Catalyst 6509 core switch. Several weeks after the fact I found out that there ...

Cisco switches can do a lot of things besides just connect regular PCs to the network. That’s why you should use the switch ports optimally — they need a little extra configuration.

However, at least half of the configuration topics I see in Dave’s new CCNP SWITCH Cert Guide require at least 2 switches. 1/3 of the core page count of the book focuses on topics like STP (and ...

Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons ...