Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. A well-configured internet firewall will ...

I'm configuring switches in a SAN environment which will be on a vlan with our 6509 core switch. ISCSI network cards for our servers require special setups to our 3560 switches. I have the ...

In assessing switch management and security, we sought to answer three questions: Did devices follow current best practices by default? Could users configure switches to follow these best practices?

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...