Layer 2 Ethernet transport over OpenVPN
One of the things I used to deploy frequently at my previous position was transport for other ISPs and businesses. Since MPLS support is in its infancy on the Imagestream platform, …
Read MoreUsing OSPF to create unlicensed full duplex connections.
Recently one of my clients asked me to help resolve an issue at an aggregation point on their network. They had several connections that converged onto a single unlicensed link on …
Read MoreHow does latency effect throughput?
One of the questions I get asked several times a week by my clients is as such. While most people never associate latency with the amount of data they can send across a single TCP …
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Cisco IOS Naming Conventions
As I started building this lab, I realized that I had to find a refresher course on the IOS naming conventions. They have gone through a number of revisions through the years, but …
Read MoreWeb Searches via Quicksilver
Everyone does a fair amount of googling these days, but any network engineer can tell you that a quick ARIN …
Read MoreFixing Vista Partition Error Messages when using Bootcamp
So, I had to reinstall Vista on my mac today — hadn’t touched it since I moved onto the Late 08 model… and once again, I started getting the common partition errors while Vista …
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