Month: February 2012

POP – Post Office Protocol

POP - Post Office ProtocolToday’s one of the most admired network service “E-mail” has been modernized the concept of how to communicate worldwide with simplicity and speed without spending extra money. However, to run this service on a computer system or any other end device, e-mail is needed some specific applications as well as services such as application layer protocol “Post Office Protocol” (POP).

LLDP – Link Layer Discovery Protocol

LLDP – Link Layer Discovery Protocol is an industry-standard, vendor-neutral method to allow networked devices to advertise capabilities, identity, and other information onto a LAN. LLDP is Layer 2 protocol described in IEEE 802.1AB-2005 standard. It replaces several proprietary protocols implemented by individual vendors for their equipment like the most known protocol of this kind, CDP – Cisco Discovery Protocol.

What is PIPA – Protect Intellectual Property Act

Everybody is speaking about it these days, lets say something about what is this PIPA and SOPA thing about.

howdoesinternetwork.com Blog about networkingPIPA Act defends an individual’s privacy by necessitating the private zones and organizations to attain the approval for their collected works, to utilize and exposé of not the public information. This law gives the right of use to their own private information only to the authorized individual. The community of business men, non-profit organizations, and other practiced regulatory organizations needs to go along with the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) that has already turn out to be a law on the month of Jan. 1 in the year 2004. 

How to configure CDP – Cisco Discovery Protocol

In this article we will see how you can easilly configure and tune router CDP capabilities. If you are more interested in what CDP really means and how it works, visit “about CDP” article.

Cisco config

To see simple CD operation and use information that CDP can give you first thing to doo is learn how is possible to turn CDP on and off. If you, for example, want to list the summary information about what devices are connected to your router you can either selectively enable or disable Cisco Discovery Protocol on the entire router, or on individual interfaces. This is done by next couple of commands: