| Weighted Tail Drop
Weighted tail drop is a congestion avoidance mechanism used on Cisco's 2960/2970/3560/3750 switch family. Congestion avoidance is an active queue management (AQM) mechanism utilized to avoid full queue congestion. Full queue congestion is detrimental because all packets going through the queuing system during periods of congestion would be dropped regardless of the priority level of the packet.... Is Cisco NetFlow the only solution for application management in a virtualized world?
Earlier this week, VMware announced three products for managing applications in virtual machines. So I thought it might be worthwhile to learn how Cisco NetFlow might be useful for application management in a virtualized world. Luckily, I was able to get the attention of application management vendor Xangati and its founder as well as CTO - Jagan Jagannathan, who took the time to participate... IPv6 Traffic: Do Not be Overly Alarmed
Some recent Network World articles have been written about the fact that organizations have IPv6 traffic on them even though they have not explicitly enabled IPv6 on their hosts or network devices. I don't want you to overreact to this news or to unnecessarily spread fear-uncertainty-and-doubt about IPv6. As far as the protocol goes, it is not drastically different than IPv4. There are steps you... July Giveaways
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