Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 8 Dec 09:

• Cisco IOS hints and tricks: Ten steps of small LAN design –
  

  6. Things start breaking mysteriously. Learn about TCAMs. Start wishing for NetFlow.

  Funny. Must read.

• Class Video – Intro to Networking « Inside Greg’s Brain – Greg Sowell has released a free CCNA training video on his website. Please pass it around for anyone who would be interested.
• Myri-10G 10-Gigabit Ethernet Windows CIFS, iSCSI and ATAoE Performance Measurements –

  iSCSI performance testing from Myricom – makers of high performance ethernet adapters and drivers for Windows 2008-Windows2008 servers


  


  For a 64K block read, 13647 IOPS at 853 Megabytes/s for 3.54 % cpu load

  


  For a 4K block read, 110875 IOPS at 435 Megabytes/s for 11.34% cpu load

  

Fascinating to see actual test results that show iSCSI is improving now the companies are focussing on the performance and promoting large scale deployment.