r/networking

170K archived posts · Jul 2008 – Sep 2026

Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion

r/networking

Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion. Enterprise Networking -- Routers, switches, wireless, and firewalls. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet, and more are welcome.

Created Jul 20, 2008

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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.

Blogspam / Traffic Redirection.

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.

Surveys may be approved with the moderators' permission
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 Prompts.

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

###Related IRC Channels

Rule #1: No Home Networking.

Rule #2: No Certification Brain Dumps / Cheating.

Rule #3: No BlogSpam / Traffic re-direction.

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 Prompts.

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