I guess I already know the answer to this but I'll throw it out anyway. Cisco supports HSRP on the 3560 but not VRRP? I'm getting about 45 seconds to failover from hardware loss, and 45 seconds again ...

I've been doing a bit of reading on these three redundant routing protocols and am considering reconfiguring my Cisco 6509 core switches from HSRP to GLBP for one of my newer sites. I'm wondering how ...

You need at least a pair of “switches”, and you really need more. But there are multiple options for what you buy to do switching with for the lab, and those choices impact the topology you end up ...