paid Labs Lab ips-09 - QoS Classification and Marking QoS - Quality of Service - is how you give priority to traffic that needs it (voice, video) over traffic J May 12, 2026 3 min read
paid Labs Lab ips-08 - SNMPv2c vs SNMPv3 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is how monitoring systems poll devices for status, counters, and config. SNMPv2c uses community strings J May 12, 2026 3 min read
paid Labs Lab ips-07 - Syslog and Buffer Sizing Syslog is the log-collection protocol every network device speaks. Configure your routers and switches to send their logs to a J May 12, 2026 3 min read
paid Labs Lab ips-03 - Static NAT Inside/Outside Static NAT creates a permanent one-to-one mapping between an inside private IP and an outside public IP. Used when an J May 12, 2026 4 min read
paid Labs Lab ips-02 - DHCP Relay (ip helper-address) DHCP discover messages are L2 broadcasts - they do not cross routers. So when client and server are on different J May 12, 2026 4 min read
paid Labs Lab ips-05 - NAT Overload (PAT) NAT overload - usually called PAT (Port Address Translation) - shares a SINGLE outside IP across many inside hosts by J May 12, 2026 4 min read