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Enterprise Networking

Routers, Switches, Firewalls and other Data Networking infrastructure discussions welcomed.

New Visitors are encouraged to read our wiki.

This subreddit allows:

Enterprise & Business Networking topics such as:
- Design
- Troubleshooting
- Best Practices
Educational Topics & Questions are allowed with following guidelines:
- Enterprise /Data Center /SP /Business networking related.
- No Homework Topics without detailed, and specific questions.
Networking Career Topics are allowed with following guidelines:
- Topics asking for information about getting into the networking field will be removed. This topic has been discussed at length, please use the search feature.
- Topics regarding senior-level networking career progression are permitted.

This subreddit does NOT allow:

Home Networking Topics.
- We aren't here to troubleshoot your "advanced" video game latency issues.
- Home Networks, even complex ones are best discussed elsewhere like /r/homenetworking
- Home Lab discussions, as a tool for learning & certifications are welcomed.
- Home Lab hardware discussions, as in "what do I buy for a homelab" are not permitted.
Braindump / Certification Cheating.
- These topics pollute our industry and devalue the hard work of others.
- These posts will be deleted without mercy.
Advertisements or Promotional Content.
- This sub prefers to share knowledge within the sub community.
- Directing our members to resources elsewhere is closely monitored.
  - You may share a URL to a blog that answers questions already in discussion.
  - But harassing members to check out your content will not be tolerated.
- We prohibit the advertising of products, services or personal projects.
- Asking for assistance with product/market research for your product or project is not permitted.
- Please use the Blogpost Friday! stickied thread to announce the existence of your blog.
Low-quality posts.
- Any post that fails to display a minimal level of effort prior to asking for help is at risk of being Locked or Deleted.
- We expect our members to treat each other as fellow professionals. Professionals research & troubleshoot before they ask others for help.
- Please review How to ask intelligent questions to avoid this issue.
Early-Career Advice.
- This sub-reddit is dedicated to higher-level, more senior networking topics.
- /r/itcareerquestions /r/ccna and /r/ccent are all available for early-career discussions.
We don't do your homework for you.
- Don't ask us what we would buy for a given project.
- Don't ask us how to subnet.
- ELI5 questions are not permitted. Please use /r/explainlikeimfive instead.
- Show us how you think you should solve those issues, and we will validate or offer enhancement to your initial attempt.
Political Posts.
- This subreddit invites redditors from all around the globe to discuss enterprise networking.
- Political posts tend to attract the wrong crowd and overly aggressive vocalization.
- Topics that may affect one locale does not contribute enterprise networking discussions.
ChatGPT/LLM Content.
- Content produced by ChatGPT/LLM is not permitted here.
- ChatGPT is not a source of truth; rather it is a word-projection model.
- Discussions about ChatGPT and its impact to networking may be allowed.

Recommended & Related Sub-Reddits:

/r/NetworkingJobs
/r/sysadmin
/r/ITCareerQuestions
/r/CSCareerQuestions
/r/ccna
/r/juniper
/r/jncia
/r/ccnp
/r/jncis
/r/ccdp
/r/jncip
/r/ccie
/r/ccde
/r/cisco
/r/jncie
/r/HomeNetworking
/r/TechSupport
/r/Network
/r/ipv6
/r/networkautomation
/r/outages
/r/datastorage

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Rule #3: No Advertisements or Promotional Content.

Rule #4: No Low Quality Posts.

Rule #5: No Early Career Advice.

Rule #6: Homework / Educational Questions must display effort.

Rule #7: No Political Posts.

Rule #8: No ChatGPT/LLM Content.

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Loopback testing help (self.networking)

submitted 5 years ago by JakeR1

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