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Network Basics: What Is Link Aggregation & How Does It Work?

Jun 5, 2024 By Kevin Dooley In Auvik
Link aggregation is a way of bundling a bunch of individual (Ethernet) links together so they act as a single logical link. A fundamental for effective switch management, if you have a switch with a whole lot of Gigabit Ethernet ports, you can connect all of them to another device that also has a bunch of ports and balance the traffic among these links to improve performance.
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Classful and Classless Addressing Explained

Jun 5, 2024 By Steve Petryschuk In Auvik
If you’ve ever been in charge of IP address assignment, you’ve come across the terms classful and classless addressing. If you haven’t, the main difference between classful and classless addressing is in the subnet length: classful addressing uses fixed-length subnet masks, but classless uses variable length subnet masks (VLSM).
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Accelerate Triage with DX NetOps Syslog Integration

Jun 4, 2024 By Abhinav Shroff In Broadcom
Today, network operations teams encounter significant hurdles due to shortages of skilled personnel and fragmented toolsets. Despite consolidation efforts, it's common for teams to manage up to 15 different monitoring products. Research suggests that network professionals believe they could potentially resolve 53% of network issues by implementing improved network management tools.
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How to Adjust TCP Window Size to Improve Network Performance

Jun 4, 2024 By Kevin Dooley In Auvik
The TCP/IP protocol sometimes shows its age. It was invented in an era when networks were very slow and packet loss was high. So one of the main considerations in early protocol design was reliability. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has built-in mechanisms for reliability that include validating a checksum on every packet, as well as detection and retransmission of dropped or out-of-order packets.
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Network Basics: Spanning Tree Protocol

Jun 4, 2024 By Ethan Banks In Auvik
For new networkers, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) can be an intimidating topic. Many old-timers speak of spanning-tree in ominous tones, recounting the time when a “spanning-tree loop” brought down the network. Some managers strictly forbid anyone from changing anything related to the spanning tree, fearing a resulting service interruption. Some of the fear surrounding spanning trees is likely based on bad experiences, but some are based on ignorance—at least partly.
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6 Common Spanning Tree Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Jun 4, 2024 By Kevin Dooley In Auvik
Let me start by saying that spanning tree is a Good Thing. It saves you from loops, which will completely shut down a network. But it has to be configured properly to work properly. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had a client call me, desperate with a terribly broken network, and I’ve responded, “Sounds like a spanning tree problem.” There are many ways things can go wrong with spanning tree. In this article, I’ve collected six of the recurring themes.
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Connecting Self-Hosted Observability and Security with SolarWinds

Jun 3, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Watch the full session at: slrwnds.com/TC24 The Integration Equation David Russell, Bryce Mata, and Chrystal Taylor Resolving an incident before end users are impacted is the new standard, but managing separate observability and incident management solutions is tempting fate. You are at risk of an issue slipping through the cracks. It's time to consolidate, streamline, and decomplexify your operations. Hybrid Cloud Observability combined with SolarWinds Observability and SolarWinds Service Desk make all of this much, much easier.
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