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November 2007

Cisco Blog Forum

Thu, 2007-11-08 13:36

No...it's not here yet. BUT, I've gotten enough requests for a general forum that I've decided to give it a go. I've downloaded and installed a forum engine which has a daunting number of options. Over the next week or two, I'll be configuring the forum options and creating the boards. Are there any specific categories ya'll would like to see?
Please keep in mind, this forum will be about community and not just me answering everyone's questions! I'm sure I'll jump in here or there on a particularly exciting topic, but I know this is one of those systems that could suck me in causing me to abandon life as a whole...which I've tried to stop as of late. Please tag any suggestions / comments on to this post - thanks!

The Internet Pulse

Wed, 2007-11-14 12:58

Just had someone show me a pretty nice website to get a good feel for the connection statistics for the major Internet carriers. Check out http://www.internetpulse.net/ - it shows each carriers connection to each other in a table format. Nice!

Load Balancing Between Two ISPs with NAT

Fri, 2007-11-16 07:32

In the consulting world, I get this request all the time: "I've got two ISPs with equal bandwidth connections for redundancy. Can I load balance between them?" Well, Cisco just published an article addressing exactly this. Check out the link below - it provides a configuration that uses features such as SLA to ping remote devices and make sure they are online before using a specific interface. There were some interface tracking features in here that I didn't even know existed! Nice!!!
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_configuration_example09186a00808d2b72.shtml
UPDATE: NIL just published a guide on Load Balancing using BGP, also pretty sweet.



Dr. Radut