Say hello to Quality of Service, Link Aggregation, Access Control Lists, Spanning Tree Protocol, and IGMP Snooping.

On a small network (<250 users) I had a user buy a 5-port Linksys switch and uplink (via 2 cables) to Ethernet ports on the wall. This caused an infinite loop that caused some problems for the site, ...

Recently had situation at work where a switching loop disrupted the entire network and took several hours to track down. Is there a simple way to detect and block a switching loop if a malicious user ...