Archive
A fine collection of my assorted verbal diatribes, gathered into a single place.
Posts
- Category: Blessay
- Blessay: Autonegotiation on Ethernet — it works, it should be mandatory! (30)
- Blessay: Designing Enterprise DMZ and multilayer Firewall Clusters (14)
- Blessay: FCoE is JUST a transition Technology (9)
- Blessay: Lessons to be learned from Nortel’s Death Throes (2)
- Blessay: My Life of Study — Planning, Tips and Thoughts (8)
- Blessay: On CCIE Core Knowledge Waivers. The HP fallout continues. — UPDATED (11)
- Blessay: On Stackable / Fixed vs Chassis / Modular Ethernet Switches (16)
- Blessay: Personal Ethics and Corporate Morals — my choices (1)
- Blessay: Sixty Five Percent — Cisco’s Gross Profit Margin (11)
- Blessay: Why I think IP Telephony is over (and I’m not studying CCIE Voice) (25)
- Blessay: Working for a Reseller or End User is different like Doctoring and Parenting (10)
- Blessay:Cisco UCS really is just Blade Servers with fancy NICs & a response to HP Network ambition (7)
- Blessay:Firewalls are like noses:Everyone’s got one. (9)
- Blessay:VTP Version 3.0 — Is VTP making a comeback ? (8)
- Designer or Engineer, Artist or Painter (6)
- Diagrams and Colour Pencils (2)
- FCoE isn’t a replacement for Infiniband, it’s a cheaper copy that customers will buy (11)
- IPv5 — What was it ?
- IPv6:Which Source Address is used when you have many IPv6 addresses ? Default Address Selection
- Key change for Cisco IOS 15 — Feature Licensing and How We Work. (9)
- Network Diagrams: Drawing the Background Shape (9)
- Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges (9)
- On the Art of Network Diagrams and Presentation (20)
- OS X:Using Web Kit for HTTP, website analysis and network testing
- Putty, the Command Line and NO clicky clicky (28)
- Rant: People are Not Valuable or Why I don’t attend Office Parties (15)
- The case against FCoE AND Fibrechannel — a reasonably complete view (10)
- What does ‘Ethereal Mind’ mean ? (1)
- What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? (6)
- Category: Blog
- “Just In Case” versus “Just In Time” Learning. Or Why Am I Learning this useless crud !?
- Aid to Seven Layer ISO model (7)
- Algoryhme by Radia Perlman (2)
- Apple MacBook Pro disappointment today
- Are the “Internets of Interest” articles useful and worth continuing ? (9)
- Article: The Future of Storage — Seven Fundamental Reasons why FCoE will fail
- ASCII Table (3)
- Blessay: Autonegotiation on Ethernet — it works, it should be mandatory! (30)
- Blessay: Designing Enterprise DMZ and multilayer Firewall Clusters (14)
- Blessay: FCoE is JUST a transition Technology (9)
- Blessay: IT Training Lessons from the Olympics (3)
- Blessay: Lessons to be learned from Nortel’s Death Throes (2)
- Blessay: My Life of Study — Planning, Tips and Thoughts (8)
- Blessay: On CCIE Core Knowledge Waivers. The HP fallout continues. — UPDATED (11)
- Blessay: On Stackable / Fixed vs Chassis / Modular Ethernet Switches (16)
- Blessay: Why I think IP Telephony is over (and I’m not studying CCIE Voice) (25)
- Blessay: Working for a Reseller or End User is different like Doctoring and Parenting (10)
- Blessay:Cloud Computing not “Essential Service”, more like “Public Transport”
- Blog:A lot of major Security Annoucements — strangely buried in one big press release. (2)
- Blog:Considering CCIE Security Training material (11)
- Blog:Geek Pride — I’m so proud of my twitter followers
- Can you learn anything from Google or Facebook Data Centers ?
- CCNP Troubleshooting TSHOOT Exam Topology (via Chainring Circus) (1)
- Charity:Supporting Wynstones School — more funds raised
- Cisco — Whats New — December 2008
- Cisco announces EOS and EOL Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 (3)
- Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tidal Software, Inc. — Cisco Systems (2)
- Cisco CCIE 360 program — Press here to Add to Cart (4)
- Cisco does CCIE training programs ? Not really, more about image and brand (1)
- Cisco IOS Order of Operation — Updated, Again (11)
- Cisco IPSec VPN Client — 64 bit — In Beta (2)
- Cisco is wishfully wishing for FCoE sales ? (3)
- Cisco Press Errata — The textbook is sometimes wrong! (3)
- Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide– finally, you can download it for free. (6)
- Cisco releasing Spam RFCs? And discovery on IETF Informational RFCs (3)
- Cisco to Release a New Router for Metro Networks — GigaOM
- Cisco, EMC, VMware — living together isn’t the same as married (2)
- Cisco: Best description of CEF Adjacency table
- Cisco: Questions I have about Cisco, UCS and the Market
- Cynicism and Regret are powerful Design Tools (7)
- DDOS — A problem bigger than you can ever be (1)
- Design Tip: Cisco Retail Price List, creating your own price estimates (11)
- Design: When to choose Free Space Optics (Ethernet Lasers) ? (5)
- Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 compatibility
- Dynamips, Dynagen, GNS3 0.7, IOS15.0 and Snow Leopard OSX (8)
- Etherealmind — Motto selection (5)
- Etherealmind has a new look and opens for direct sponsors (4)
- Etherealmind’s Favourite Posts of 2008 (1)
- File Catalyst:Unlimitech Software: Pretending to be a customer
- Frame or Packets — Make sure you get it right! (9)
- Fundraising Update Feb 2009
- Fundraising Update Oct 2008
- Gestalt IT Field Day and meet up
- Google DNS — not proving to be ‘all that’ (3)
- Google Public DNS (and ICMP Internet test) (4)
- Gray Market Will Give Cisco Blues — GigaOM — My Tips for Second Hand Success. (5)
- Help choosing a Podcast Name (5)
- Hosting problems with Mediatemple again (1)
- HP MASE — it’s for HP Partners not customers — Updated. (3)
- Humour:Cloud Computing — A visual tale
- I believe that there should be a Security Design team and a Security Audit team. All security operations should be performed by Network Operations.
- I’m going to San Jose (1)
- If I can’t fix it, I’ll break it. And that’s OK, it needed fixing anyway. (12)
- Install GNS3 on Mac OSX Leopard (21)
- Interesting Switch Designs for Data Centre Racks from Juniper (3)
- IOS: “terminal monitor” on, off — logging to your terminal (1)
- IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length (1)
- Is EEM ready for the big time ?
- Is this the year of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the LAN ? (6)
- Managing and Technical Life — reprise
- Mediatemple causing intermittent site outages
- Microsoft OpenDocument doesn’t REALLY work
- Musing:Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery
- Musing:There is hope for the world after all
- My Twelve Networking Days of Christmas
- NAT’d or translated — the votes are in — we have a WINNER (1)
- Nerdgasm: OmniGraffle on the iPad [The Omni Mouth:iPad or Bust!] (2)
- Network Diagrams:Zones on a diagram with Visio shape union (5)
- Network Dictionary — survivor’s bias
- Network Dictionary — anatidaephobia — Fear the Rubber Duck
- Network Dictionary — automagically
- Network Dictionary — Backward Planning (1)
- Network Dictionary — Blown Fibre (3)
- Network Dictionary — Brownfield (2)
- Network Dictionary — Care Factor
- Network Dictionary — coffice
- Network Dictionary — Exemplar
- Network Dictionary — Eye Dee Ten Tee (1)
- Network Dictionary — firerouter
- Network Dictionary — Forward Planning
- Network Dictionary — GONER (3)
- Network Dictionary — Helen Fry (1)
- Network Dictionary — IPocalypse (1)
- Network Dictionary — Legacy (1)
- Network Dictionary — Lobby Ambassador
- Network Dictionary — Marketing Math (6)
- Network Dictionary — nerdsomnia
- Network Dictionary — pedantic (6)
- Network Dictionary — Project Manager (1)
- Network Dictionary — Router (1)
- Network Dictionary — Rubber Duck Debugging (5)
- Network Dictionary — Sanity Cheque
- Network Dictionary — slugged
- Network Dictionary — soft skills
- Network Dictionary — tchotkes
- Network Dictionary — Temperature Excursion
- Network Dictionary — TFM (1)
- Network Dictionary — Unicorn Tears (1)
- Network Dictionary — VTP Bomb (4)
- Network Dictionary: Fun Detector
- Network ZEN: Management or Monitoring
- Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches (7)
- Networking is Cloud Ready. But where is Network Management ? (1)
- No more handbags at dawn. Lets get to work.
- Notes on Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture. (Or what does 720 in Supervisor 720 mean ?) (11)
- Number 1 Reason to avoid using the Cisco Learning Network | Cisco Study Blog (3)
- On books, e-books, Copyright and Author return (14)
- Opinion: Morality Is Not a Group Effort — GigaOM
- Opinion: Observations on CCNP changes and new CCIE SP Ops (1)
- Opinion:Certification Matters — Exams are not relevant to Real Life — Part 4 (8)
- Opinion:Study, iPad, DRM and Me (5)
- OS X:Terminal break for Serial Console on OS X (3)
- OS X:Tools — Mental Case — Flash Cards — with iPhone support (3)
- OSX: Changing Hibernation mode — UPDATED (2)
- Public Cloud Computing looks bad — again.
- Putty — Recommended Default Settings for a Network Engineer (5)
- Rant: Brocade requires login & service contract to access Foundry Manuals (4)
- Rant: Buying from the USA — ccbootcamp (6)
- Rant: People are Not Valuable or Why I don’t attend Office Parties (15)
- Rant: Which of these 10GB adapters is not the same ? (8)
- RANT:Cannot copy text from Product Quick Reference Guide. What ? (2)
- Rant:Cisco — Masters of the Networking World — what’s that on your home page ? (13)
- Rant:D-Link hijacks your Internets — IN FIRMWARE (2)
- Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure
- Reloading IOS config at CLI for Dynamips/Dynagen (1)
- Remembrance Day — Lest We Forget.
- Remove NoScript from your Firefox — here is why. (2)
- Results of Poll on Using Cisco Second Hand Equipment (2)
- Review: How close was my Top5 on Cisco’s Viral Marketing for ASR9000
- Review: robtex.com — DNS and Peering Tool (1)
- RFC 5790 — Lightweight IGMPv3 and MLDv2 Protocols — another shot at Multicast but why ? (3)
- Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Openness is not enough
- Security: ASA Version 8.3.1 Released (2)
- Setting the Defaults for PUTTY (6)
- Site Performance — Mediatemple unable to fix (8)
- Syntax: VLANs or VLAN’s ? (7)
- The case against FCoE AND Fibrechannel — a reasonably complete view (10)
- The difference between Network and Server Engineers — pictorial (12)
- The difference between Network Managers and Server Managers — pictorial (1)
- The Harbinger of Death for PABX and IP Telephony (5)
- The Lay of the Network Hero (1)
- The Ten Networking Commandments (3)
- This year I’m working harder on mistakes (3)
- Top 4 things about IBM buying Sun
- Top 4 things IPexpert will say about Internetwork Expert CCIE 2.0 announcement (5)
- Top 5 Cisco Christmas wish list — Dear Santa (4)
- Top 5 things about Cisco “viral” announcement (4)
- Top 5 Things about Cisco says “Internet to Change Forever” Event Today (5)
- Top 5 things about the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 Announcement Today [Humour] (3)
- Top 5 things that Internetwork Expert might announce today. (6)
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-03 (2)
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-17
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-24
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-31
- What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? (6)
- What the letters on 802.1 Ethernet standards stand for
- Why does iSCSI use TCP instead of IP ? (12)
- Why is a full duplex Ethernet connection significantly faster ?
- Why Rate Articles ? (4)
- Windows 7’s XP Mode — Needs BIOS changes
- Category: Bookmarks
- Bookmarks for 15th October through 17th October
- Bookmarks for 22nd September through 15th October
- China issues Communications Standards — Comment
- Internets of Interest: 10th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 10th Sep (2)
- Internets of Interest: 12th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 13th Mar — 22nd Mar
- Internets of Interest: 13th May (3)
- Internets of Interest: 14th Apr — 22nd Apr
- Internets of Interest: 14th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 14th Jan — 15th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 15th Sep
- Internets of Interest: 16th Aug
- Internets of Interest: 16th Dec
- Internets of Interest: 16th Jun
- Internets of Interest: 17th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 18th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 18th October through 21st October
- Internets of Interest: 18th Sep (1)
- Internets of Interest: 19th Dec
- Internets of Interest: 19th Jul
- Internets of Interest: 19th Oct (2)
- Internets of Interest: 1st May
- Internets of Interest: 1st Nov
- Internets of Interest: 20th Feb — 23rd Feb
- Internets of Interest: 20th May
- Internets of Interest: 20th Oct
- Internets of Interest: 21st Aug
- Internets of Interest: 21st Oct (3)
- Internets of Interest: 21st Sep
- Internets of Interest: 22nd Jul (2)
- Internets of Interest: 23rd Oct
- Internets of Interest: 24th Mar
- Internets of Interest: 24th Oct (1)
- Internets of Interest: 25th Apr — 28th Apr (2)
- Internets of Interest: 25th Feb — 3rd Mar
- Internets of Interest: 26th Aug
- Internets of Interest: 26th Oct
- Internets of Interest: 27th Mar — 1st Apr (1)
- Internets of Interest: 28th May (2)
- Internets of Interest: 28th Oct
- Internets of Interest: 29th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 2nd Feb
- Internets of Interest: 2nd Feb
- Internets of Interest: 2nd Jan
- Internets of Interest: 3rd Jan
- Internets of Interest: 5th Mar — 6th Mar
- Internets of Interest: 6th Apr — 7th Apr
- Internets of Interest: 7th Apr — 13th Apr (1)
- Internets of Interest: 7th Feb — 8th Feb
- Internets of Interest: 7th Jan
- Internets of Interest: 7th Mar — 10th Mar
- Internets of Interest: 7th Nov
- Internets of Interest: 8th May (4)
- Internets of Interest: 8th Oct
- Internets of Interest: 9th Feb — 15th Feb
- Internets of Interest: 9th Jul
- Internets of Interest:1 Feb 10 (1)
- Internets of Interest:10 Dec 09
- Internets of Interest:12 Feb 10
- Internets of Interest:12 Jan 10
- Internets of Interest:12 Mar 10 (1)
- Internets of Interest:13th Nov 09-17th Nov 09
- Internets of Interest:14 Mar 10 — FIXED (5)
- Internets of Interest:16 Jan 10
- Internets of Interest:16 Mar 10
- Internets of Interest:18 Jan 10
- Internets of Interest:2 Mar 10 (1)
- Internets of Interest:21 Dec 09 (1)
- Internets of Interest:21 Jan 10
- Internets of Interest:22 Feb 10
- Internets of Interest:22nd Nov 09
- Internets of Interest:27th Nov 09
- Internets of Interest:28 Feb 10
- Internets of Interest:28th Oct 09-1st Nov 09 (1)
- Internets of Interest:29 Dec 09
- Internets of Interest:2nd Nov 09-5th Nov 09
- Internets of Interest:3 Dec 09
- Internets of Interest:5 Feb 10
- Internets of Interest:6 Dec 09
- Internets of Interest:6 Mar 10
- Internets of Interest:6th Nov 09-9th Nov 09 (2)
- Internets of Interest:8 Dec 09 (2)
- Internets of Interest:8 Feb 10
- Internets of Interest:9 Mar 10
- Category: Musing
- “Just In Case” versus “Just In Time” Learning. Or Why Am I Learning this useless crud !?
- Blinken Lights, It’s all about the blinking lights (4)
- Cisco: Questions I have about Cisco, UCS and the Market
- Designer or Engineer, Artist or Painter (6)
- Diagrams and Colour Pencils (2)
- Etherealmind — Motto selection (5)
- If I can’t fix it, I’ll break it. And that’s OK, it needed fixing anyway. (12)
- Is this the year of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the LAN ? (6)
- Microsoft OpenDocument doesn’t REALLY work
- Musing: Finding all Cisco Press books on Safari
- Musing: On Permananent and Ephemeral Knowledge and Exam Study (2)
- Musing: On Reading and Learning from a Computer Screen (2)
- Musing:How long does it take to transfer data ? Rules of Thumb (11)
- Musing:On Not Owning an E-Reader or buying E-Books (9)
- Musing:Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery
- Musing:There is hope for the world after all
- Network ZEN: Management or Monitoring
- Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches (7)
- Question: Is it Natted or is it NAT’d ? (11)
- RFC 1925 — The Twelve Networking Truths (4)
- RFC 2322 — Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp (1)
- The Balloon Story (3)
- The CCIE Medallion (3)
- Too many directions, too much to think about (2)
- What do I do with the leftover cable ?
- Why can’t I ping my ACE module ? Diatribe on service-policy.
- Why does iSCSI use TCP instead of IP ? (12)
- Why does this remind me of putting FCoE in my network ?
- Category: Nerdgasm
- Category: Opinion
- 5 Things about Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up[Post Prandial] (3)
- American Technology companies have poor support outside the US — why ? (1)
- Are you Ready to purchase a Brocade Ethernet switch ? What ? (11)
- Blessay: Personal Ethics and Corporate Morals — my choices (1)
- Blessay:Cisco UCS really is just Blade Servers with fancy NICs & a response to HP Network ambition (7)
- Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer-excellent-outcome (4)
- Bob Cringely — CCIE:The Leading Men — judge economic progress
- Book Review: Project California: Data Center Virtualization Server
- Brocade buys Foundry ? No great loss. Storage switches ahoy! (2)
- CCIE water cooler gossip: Tolly’s review of IPexpert vs. Internetwork Expert CCIE labs | NetworkWorld.com Community (2)
- Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tidal Software, Inc. — Cisco Systems (2)
- Cisco CCIE 360 program — Press here to Add to Cart (4)
- Cisco, EMC, VMware — living together isn’t the same as married (2)
- Data Networks — more reliable to than storage networks ?
- Describing my job to ‘normal people’ (6)
- Domain tasting looking dead — at last ICANN is doing something
- Drobo — Guessing how BeyondRAID creates space and volumes (16)
- FCoE might improve storage but will complicate IT and cause team disruption (2)
- How are you feeling about Cisco ? (7)
- How Help Desk SLA’s lie — “Four Hour Response” my butt. (9)
- HP hit Cisco first, not the other way round. (7)
- If I can’t fix it, I’ll break it. And that’s OK, it needed fixing anyway. (12)
- IOS:Open Source Lab DNS and IP addressing (1)
- Is the Cisco Nexus 7000 needed today — or tomorrow ? (1)
- Lessons in IT security from the Credit Crunch
- More people against FCoE — part 2
- More racks from InternetExpert — better time slots (1)
- My Proposed Code of Blogging Ethics — Updated (7)
- My thoughts on Google ChromeOS mean for networking ?
- Network Access Control looking like a flub (5)
- Not Anti FCoE, more like Anti Fibrechannel — A Response (4)
- On books, e-books, Copyright and Author return (14)
- On the death and rebirth of IOS — Why did it take so long ? (3)
- Open DNS (opendns.com) — ready for the Enterprise ? (2)
- Opinion: Certification matters — Experience less so — Part 1 (21)
- Opinion: Observations on CCNP changes and new CCIE SP Ops (1)
- Opinion:Certification Matters –Part 2– Knowledge or Experience — Which is more valuable ? (11)
- Opinion:Certification Matters– Only you can do the study — Part 3 (7)
- Opinion:Checkpoint buys Nokia security appliances — time to change (6)
- Opinion:If Cisco moves into consumer, what happens to Enterprise and SP ? (4)
- Opinion:Study, iPad, DRM and Me (5)
- OSX:Punditry — Four options from Apple in September — unexpected!
- People against FCoE, its loud and proud — Part 1 (5)
- Rant: Computerworld — World’s youngest CCNA: 12-year-old Irtiza from Pakistan (9)
- Rant: How to fudge your statistics ( or why ping is not a good measure)
- Rant: Problems with Media Temple hosting (1)
- Rant: That is not an apology CertGuard. You have to say sorry! (3)
- Rant: Who is Robert Williams and Certguard ? And are they moral or just plain stupid ? (8)
- Real CCIE’s, Real People Scholarship | Internetwork Expert
- Remembrance Day — Lest We Forget.
- Review of ActivIdentity ActivID 4Tress AAA and 2 factor tokens (3)
- Satyam fraud — shakes foundation of Cloud Computing ? (1)
- Secure Computing sold to McAfee — what a waste of human life (8)
- Storage: Emulex silicon will have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a single chip
- The case against FCoE AND Fibrechannel — a reasonably complete view (10)
- The five hottest skills for your networking career — Network World
- The greatest risk to Cloud Computing ? The Vista effect. (2)
- The Local — World’s fastest internet connection ‘used to dry laundry’
- Too many directions, too much to think about (2)
- Wanted: Virtualization Engineer, Referee Exp. Pref. — GigaOM
- What is a CCIE ? (3)
- What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? (6)
- Where are all the features for Nexus ? Or is it just me ? (2)
- Why didn’t Nortel do better ? Cisco wasn’t always the top dog. (2)
- Windows Azure signals start of Misty Computing — Microsoft will always sell to the enterprise
- Category: Rant
- Dear Cisco, Stop the Lame “Meme” Marketing — it sucks.….badly (3)
- Rant: Brocade requires login & service contract to access Foundry Manuals (4)
- Rant: Buying from the USA — ccbootcamp (6)
- Rant: Certguard in Computerworld — go and register your disgust (8)
- Rant: F5 LTM and GTM doesn’t do external AAA authorization (3)
- Rant: I loathe Voicemail, its disruptive and inefficient (2)
- Rant: People are Not Valuable or Why I don’t attend Office Parties (15)
- Rant: SecureCRT — too expensive — alternatives Putty, Tera Term ? (30)
- Rant: Which of these 10GB adapters is not the same ? (8)
- Rant:“Investment Protection” on the Cisco C6500 — it isn’t quite that simple (5)
- Rant:Cisco — Masters of the Networking World — what’s that on your home page ? (13)
- Rant:Cisco Application Control Engine Version Numbering
- Rant:Cisco Networkers Virtual — its bad, very bad. (10)
- Rant:Managing is easy compared to technical life (11)
- Rant:My growing dislike of “cross marketing”
- Rant:New Logos ? Tasteless rubbish (11)
- Rant:No Cisco Maintenance ? The web site is down for maintenance.
- Rant:Why is the IEEE all about secrecy ?
- Category: Security
- Blessay: Designing Enterprise DMZ and multilayer Firewall Clusters (14)
- Blessay:Firewalls are like noses:Everyone’s got one. (9)
- Cisco ASA and IOS command tip — test aaa-server
- Cisco ASA supports two OSPF processes (6)
- Design: Cisco Firewall Services Module Virtualization Design Traps
- IP Addressing for HA Links for ASA/FWSM/ACE etc– Poll (7)
- Lessons in IT security from the Credit Crunch
- TCP SYN Cookies — DDoS defence (5)
- Category: Cisco
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection [Cisco IOS Software] — Cisco Systems
- Blessay: On CCIE Core Knowledge Waivers. The HP fallout continues. — UPDATED (11)
- Blessay: Sixty Five Percent — Cisco’s Gross Profit Margin (11)
- Blog:Considering CCIE Security Training material (11)
- Blue Coat ProxySG VIP and Cisco switches need Multicast enabled (2)
- Bob Cringely — CCIE:The Leading Men — judge economic progress
- Catalyst 6500 serial number — Where is it ? (2)
- CCNP Troubleshooting TSHOOT Exam Topology (via Chainring Circus) (1)
- Changing the break character in Cisco IOS (8)
- Cisco announces EOS and EOL Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 (3)
- Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) — introduction and comparison with F5 (13)
- Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Software Version 2.1.0 ships (1)
- Cisco ASA and IOS command tip — test aaa-server
- Cisco ASA supports two OSPF processes (6)
- Cisco Credential Verification Report — checking certification status (1)
- Cisco does CCIE training programs ? Not really, more about image and brand (1)
- Cisco IOS load balancing for Blue Coat SGOS (4)
- Cisco Press Errata — The textbook is sometimes wrong! (3)
- Cisco releases BETA IPSec VPN Client for Windows 7 (17)
- Cisco releasing Spam RFCs? And discovery on IETF Informational RFCs (3)
- Cisco Security Manager 3.2 — released — woo hoo! (1)
- Cisco: Questions I have about Cisco, UCS and the Market
- Cisco:ASDM Unconnected sockets not implemented — Updated (19)
- Cisco:Which slot is my ACE module installed in ?
- CiscoSecure ACS 4.2 — shipping
- Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server? — GigaOM (3)
- Configuring Windows 2003 / XP SP2 to use IOS NTP server (5)
- CSM 3.2 — Notes when upgrading — RME 4.1 problems. (9)
- CSM, IDSM, ADSM performance problems or memory errors ? Increase Java memory. (1)
- Data Centre Ethernet standards fight brewing ? Brocade says FCoE in 2010. (4)
- Determine which SFP is installed in your Cisco line module (4)
- Enterprise Cloud Computing — Build your own with Cisco VFrame — Why wait ? (18)
- Foundry postpones vote on Brocade deal, stock plunges — Network World
- IOS CLI: show run linenum (4)
- IOS: Clearing an interface configuration (4)
- IOS: Console, Terminal, Monitor, VTY — what is what ? (3)
- IOS: enable and .… disable ? (1)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access (6)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access — Part 2 (3)
- IOS: ROMMON on the C6500/Sup720 — lesson learned
- IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length (1)
- IOS: Setting the TCP timeout on IOS (1)
- IOS:CLI Tip — terminal full help (1)
- IOS:Open Source Lab DNS and IP addressing (1)
- ip tcp timestamp
- Is EEM ready for the big time ?
- Key change for Cisco IOS 15 — Feature Licensing and How We Work. (9)
- Notes on Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture. (Or what does 720 in Supervisor 720 mean ?) (11)
- On Layer 2 Access designs and MPLS
- On the death and rebirth of IOS — Why did it take so long ? (3)
- OSX: Snow Leopard and TFTP server-ing (1)
- Rant:“Investment Protection” on the Cisco C6500 — it isn’t quite that simple (5)
- Rant:No Cisco Maintenance ? The web site is down for maintenance.
- Results of Poll on Using Cisco Second Hand Equipment (2)
- Review:Cisco ASR9000 router — nothing to look at here, move on please.
- Security: ASA Version 8.3.1 Released (2)
- Serial Console on OSX (12)
- The five hottest skills for your networking career — Network World
- The poor man’s IOS Traffic Generator (7)
- Tip:ASDM works on OSX (6)
- UDLD — to global or per port (2)
- What is a ‘free’ or ‘unattached’ CCIE number or status ? (5)
- What is a CCIE ? (3)
- What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? (6)
- Why is a full duplex Ethernet connection significantly faster ?
- Why use two routing processes in a firewall ? (1)
- Category: CCIE
- Blessay: My Life of Study — Planning, Tips and Thoughts (8)
- Blessay: On CCIE Core Knowledge Waivers. The HP fallout continues. — UPDATED (11)
- Blog:Considering CCIE Security Training material (11)
- Cisco IOS load balancing for Blue Coat SGOS (4)
- Frame or Packets — Make sure you get it right! (9)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access (6)
- More racks from InternetExpert — better time slots (1)
- On my CCIE Lab Exam in 2001 — Day One (1)
- On passing my CCIE exam in 2001 — Day Two (3)
- Quiz: Redistributing Static Routes in EIGRP. Which of these is better ? (3)
- Reserved IP address Range for Testing — RFC 2544 (1)
- Single Internet Connection but HA Infrastructure — Using bridging instead of routing (1)
- Too many directions, too much to think about (2)
- What is a CCIE ? (3)
- Category: Design
- Article: The Future of Storage — Seven Fundamental Reasons why FCoE will fail
- Blessay: Autonegotiation on Ethernet — it works, it should be mandatory! (30)
- Blessay: Designing Enterprise DMZ and multilayer Firewall Clusters (14)
- Blessay: Lessons to be learned from Nortel’s Death Throes (2)
- Blessay: On Stackable / Fixed vs Chassis / Modular Ethernet Switches (16)
- Blessay:Cisco UCS really is just Blade Servers with fancy NICs & a response to HP Network ambition (7)
- Can you learn anything from Google or Facebook Data Centers ?
- Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) — introduction and comparison with F5 (13)
- Cisco IOS load balancing for Blue Coat SGOS (4)
- Cisco IOS Order of Operation — Updated, Again (11)
- Cisco releasing Spam RFCs? And discovery on IETF Informational RFCs (3)
- Configuring Windows 2003 / XP SP2 to use IOS NTP server (5)
- Data Networks — more reliable to than storage networks ?
- Design Tip: Cisco Retail Price List, creating your own price estimates (11)
- Design: Cisco Firewall Services Module Virtualization Design Traps
- Design: Lack of choice improves client outcomes (1)
- Design: When to choose Free Space Optics (Ethernet Lasers) ? (5)
- Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 compatibility
- Diagrams and Colour Pencils (2)
- Don’t tell me iSCSI is complicated if Fibrechannel looks like this (4)
- Early death of Cisco VPN Client forces VPN license fees (30)
- Enterprise Cloud Computing — Build your own with Cisco VFrame — Why wait ? (18)
- Fast Introduction to SOCKS Proxy (3)
- FCoE isn’t a replacement for Infiniband, it’s a cheaper copy that customers will buy (11)
- ICANN | IPv6 Address Added for Root Servers in the Root Zone
- Interesting Switch Designs for Data Centre Racks from Juniper (3)
- IP Addressing for HA Links for ASA/FWSM/ACE etc– Poll (7)
- Is EEM ready for the big time ?
- iSCSI Network Designs: Part 1 — Introduction and basics (5)
- iSCSI Network Designs: Part 2 — Simple Scaling
- iSCSI Network Designs: Part 3 — Server Side — iSCSI Host Bus Adapters and IP Performance (1)
- iSCSI Network Designs: Part 4 — Fibrechannel integration
- iSCSI Network Designs: Part 5 — iSCSI Multipathing, Host Bus Adapters, High Availability and Redundancy (2)
- Mibi Mega Kibi Kilo — Decimal and Binary prefixes
- Nerdgasm: Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall announced
- Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges (9)
- Notes on Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture. (Or what does 720 in Supervisor 720 mean ?) (11)
- On Layer 2 Access designs and MPLS
- On the Art of Network Diagrams and Presentation (20)
- Rant:Why is the IEEE all about secrecy ?
- Reserved IP address Range for Testing — RFC 2544 (1)
- Single Internet Connection but HA Infrastructure — Using bridging instead of routing (1)
- TCP SYN Cookies — DDoS defence (5)
- The case against FCoE AND Fibrechannel — a reasonably complete view (10)
- The Ten Networking Commandments (3)
- UDLD — to global or per port (2)
- What the letters on 802.1 Ethernet standards stand for
- Why use two routing processes in a firewall ? (1)
- Category: Dictionary
- Introducing the Network Dictionary
- Network Dictionary — survivor’s bias
- Network Dictionary — ABC (Anything But Cisco) (7)
- Network Dictionary — acronyminy
- Network Dictionary — admintastic
- Network Dictionary — anatidaephobia — Fear the Rubber Duck
- Network Dictionary — Application Delivery Controller (7)
- Network Dictionary — appsellation
- Network Dictionary — ASAi
- Network Dictionary — Assonance
- Network Dictionary — Backhoe Attenuation (2)
- Network Dictionary — Backward Planning (1)
- Network Dictionary — big badha boom (1)
- Network Dictionary — Blamestorming (1)
- Network Dictionary — blessay (1)
- Network Dictionary — Blown Fibre (3)
- Network Dictionary — borked
- Network Dictionary — Brandalize
- Network Dictionary — Brownfield (2)
- Network Dictionary — Care Factor
- Network Dictionary — CCIE Pounds (6)
- Network Dictionary — Ciscotist (3)
- Network Dictionary — coffice
- Network Dictionary — copypasta (2)
- Network Dictionary — distress purchase
- Network Dictionary — Distributed Attention
- Network Dictionary — Ethereal
- Network Dictionary — Exemplar
- Network Dictionary — Eye Dee Ten Tee (1)
- Network Dictionary — Facepalm (2)
- Network Dictionary — Fancy Ethernet (1)
- Network Dictionary — Ferrule
- Network Dictionary — Fibrechannel (1)
- Network Dictionary — firerouter
- Network Dictionary — Firewall (1)
- Network Dictionary — foo (1)
- Network Dictionary — Forward Planning
- Network Dictionary — Freelance
- Network Dictionary — functionality
- Network Dictionary — GONER (3)
- Network Dictionary — goodthing
- Network Dictionary — grok (1)
- Network Dictionary — heater (1)
- Network Dictionary — Helen Fry (1)
- Network Dictionary — IEEEdiot
- Network Dictionary — Implementation (1)
- Network Dictionary — Infrastructure
- Network Dictionary — Insufflate
- Network Dictionary — IPocalypse (1)
- Network Dictionary — iSCSI
- Network Dictionary — kewl (1)
- Network Dictionary — knowledge worker
- Network Dictionary — Layer 3 Routing (5)
- Network Dictionary — Legacy (1)
- Network Dictionary — leverage (1)
- Network Dictionary — Lobby Ambassador
- Network Dictionary — longhorn (2)
- Network Dictionary — magic hand wave
- Network Dictionary — Markenauts
- Network Dictionary — markitecture (2)
- Network Dictionary — Mendicant (2)
- Network Dictionary — mensch
- Network Dictionary — Microsoft Standard
- Network Dictionary — Moregasm
- Network Dictionary — mythinformation (6)
- Network Dictionary — NAT’d
- Network Dictionary — nerdsomnia
- Network Dictionary — Nortard (2)
- Network Dictionary — ohnosecond
- Network Dictionary — orgy of failure
- Network Dictionary — Pain Relief Technology
- Network Dictionary — Paperweight
- Network Dictionary — pedantic (6)
- Network Dictionary — Pixen (5)
- Network Dictionary — pontificate (1)
- Network Dictionary — Process Humping
- Network Dictionary — Project Manager (1)
- Network Dictionary — reassuringly expensive (2)
- Network Dictionary — Resume Generating Events
- Network Dictionary — RITA — Reliable Internetworking Troubleshooting Agent (1)
- Network Dictionary — Router (1)
- Network Dictionary — Rubber Duck Debugging (5)
- Network Dictionary — Sanity Cheque
- Network Dictionary — Scalable
- Network Dictionary — Server Hugger
- Network Dictionary — Signal Slope
- Network Dictionary — slugged
- Network Dictionary — soft skills
- Network Dictionary — Solution Review
- Network Dictionary — Spinning Rust
- Network Dictionary — Straw Man Review
- Network Dictionary — Subconscious Study Avoidance (SSA) (3)
- Network Dictionary — Sycophant
- Network Dictionary — TACrathon
- Network Dictionary — tchotkes
- Network Dictionary — technobabble (2)
- Network Dictionary — Temperature Excursion
- Network Dictionary — TFM (1)
- Network Dictionary — TLA and eTLA (2)
- Network Dictionary — tuple
- Network Dictionary — Unicorn Tears (1)
- Network Dictionary — velvet rut
- Network Dictionary — VTP Bomb (4)
- Network Dictionary — webinar
- Network Dictionary — wi-fi (2)
- Network Dictionary — Windows (2)
- Network Dictionary — workshop
- Network Dictionary– Human Remorse (4)
- Network Dictionary: Cock Blocked (4)
- Network Dictionary: Fun Detector
- Category: Featured
- 5 Things about Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up[Post Prandial] (3)
- Blessay: Designing Enterprise DMZ and multilayer Firewall Clusters (14)
- Blessay: IT Training Lessons from the Olympics (3)
- Blessay: Personal Ethics and Corporate Morals — my choices (1)
- Blessay: Sixty Five Percent — Cisco’s Gross Profit Margin (11)
- Blessay: Why I think IP Telephony is over (and I’m not studying CCIE Voice) (25)
- Blessay: Working for a Reseller or End User is different like Doctoring and Parenting (10)
- Blessay:VTP Version 3.0 — Is VTP making a comeback ? (8)
- Can you learn anything from Google or Facebook Data Centers ?
- Changing the break character in Cisco IOS (8)
- Cisco, EMC, VMware — living together isn’t the same as married (2)
- Cisco: Questions I have about Cisco, UCS and the Market
- DCB, CEE or DCE ? Whose term is best ? (13)
- DDOS — A problem bigger than you can ever be (1)
- Design Tip: Cisco Retail Price List, creating your own price estimates (11)
- Design: Lack of choice improves client outcomes (1)
- Drobo — Guessing how BeyondRAID creates space and volumes (16)
- Early death of Cisco VPN Client forces VPN license fees (30)
- FCoE isn’t a replacement for Infiniband, it’s a cheaper copy that customers will buy (11)
- Gray Market Will Give Cisco Blues — GigaOM — My Tips for Second Hand Success. (5)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access (6)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access — Part 2 (3)
- IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length (1)
- Is this the year of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the LAN ? (6)
- Musing: On Permananent and Ephemeral Knowledge and Exam Study (2)
- Musing: On Reading and Learning from a Computer Screen (2)
- Musing:How long does it take to transfer data ? Rules of Thumb (11)
- Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and then fixing them) (5)
- Network Diagrams: Drawing the Background Shape (9)
- Network Diagrams: VLANs and IP Subnets (2)
- Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges (9)
- Network Tools, craftsmen and why my Mac is a good hammer
- Networking is Cloud Ready. But where is Network Management ? (1)
- On the Art of Network Diagrams and Presentation (20)
- Opinion: Certification matters — Experience less so — Part 1 (21)
- Opinion:Certification Matters — Exams are not relevant to Real Life — Part 4 (8)
- Opinion:Certification Matters –Part 2– Knowledge or Experience — Which is more valuable ? (11)
- Opinion:Certification Matters– Only you can do the study — Part 3 (7)
- Putty, the Command Line and NO clicky clicky (28)
- Rant: SecureCRT — too expensive — alternatives Putty, Tera Term ? (30)
- Review of the Cisco CRS-3 Marketing Debacle
- The Real Job Description for Network Architect (7)
- This year I’m working harder on mistakes (3)
- Using the wrong Date formatting and the global problem — ISO8601 (3)
- What does ‘Ethereal Mind’ mean ? (1)
- What is a ‘free’ or ‘unattached’ CCIE number or status ? (5)
- What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? (6)
- Category: Network Diagrams
- Network Diagrams: Drawing complex VLAN Networks with IP Addressing (3)
- Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and then fixing them) (5)
- Network Diagrams: Drawing the Background Shape (9)
- Network Diagrams: Labelling an VLAN/IP Segment (8)
- Network Diagrams: Rotating Text on a Line (5)
- Network Diagrams: Tips for Printing from Visio (7)
- Network Diagrams: VLANs and IP Subnets (2)
- Network Diagrams:Aligning Shapes (2)
- Network Diagrams:Locking the Background Shape (2)
- Network Diagrams:Zones on a diagram with Visio shape union (5)
- Category: Operation
- Can you learn anything from Google or Facebook Data Centers ?
- Changing the break character in Cisco IOS (8)
- Cisco announces EOS and EOL Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 (3)
- Cisco IOS load balancing for Blue Coat SGOS (4)
- Cisco IOS Order of Operation — Updated, Again (11)
- Cisco Security Manager — shortcut to restarting services
- Cisco:ASDM Unconnected sockets not implemented — Updated (19)
- Cisco:Which slot is my ACE module installed in ?
- Configuring Network Locations in Mac OSX. (5)
- CSM, IDSM, ADSM performance problems or memory errors ? Increase Java memory. (1)
- Custom sizing your MMC RDP console (3)
- Design: When to choose Free Space Optics (Ethernet Lasers) ? (5)
- Flush DNS cache on MAC OS X
- Google DNS — not proving to be ‘all that’ (3)
- How Help Desk SLA’s lie — “Four Hour Response” my butt. (9)
- How to Make a Network Cable — wikiHow
- IOS: “terminal monitor” on, off — logging to your terminal (1)
- IOS: Clearing an interface configuration (4)
- IOS: Console, Terminal, Monitor, VTY — what is what ? (3)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access (6)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access — Part 2 (3)
- IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length (1)
- IP Addressing for HA Links for ASA/FWSM/ACE etc– Poll (7)
- Key change for Cisco IOS 15 — Feature Licensing and How We Work. (9)
- Multiple RDP consoles — who knew ? (4)
- Musing:How long does it take to transfer data ? Rules of Thumb (11)
- Network Tools, craftsmen and why my Mac is a good hammer
- Notes on Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture. (Or what does 720 in Supervisor 720 mean ?) (11)
- OS X:Terminal break for Serial Console on OS X (3)
- OS X:Using Web Kit for HTTP, website analysis and network testing
- OSX: Snow Leopard and TFTP server-ing (1)
- Putty, the Command Line and NO clicky clicky (28)
- Quiz: Redistributing Static Routes in EIGRP. Which of these is better ? (3)
- Results of Poll on Using Cisco Second Hand Equipment (2)
- Review: robtex.com — DNS and Peering Tool (1)
- Setting the Defaults for PUTTY (6)
- The case against FCoE AND Fibrechannel — a reasonably complete view (10)
- Tip / OSX:Checking MD5 checksum on Code download (3)
- Using Choosy for OSX. A better way to use multiple browsers. (3)
- Using the wrong Date formatting and the global problem — ISO8601 (3)
- Why can’t I ping my ACE module ? Diatribe on service-policy.
- Why is a full duplex Ethernet connection significantly faster ?
- Category: Blue Coat
- Blue Coat ProxySG VIP and Cisco switches need Multicast enabled (2)
- Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer-excellent-outcome (4)
- Checking connectivity on your Blue Coat ProxySG
- Cisco IOS load balancing for Blue Coat SGOS (4)
- Delete the X-Bluecoat-Via Header on your ProxySG (1)
- Loading Policy configuration in the Local file (4)
- Performance of Blue Coat BCAAA agent for authentication
- SOCKS Clients that are available for your Blue Coat ProxySG — update (3)
- Category: Dynamips
- Caring for your Dynamips install — deleting unwanted files (2)
- Configuring iTerm for Dynamips
- Dynamips and the Leopard terminal
- Dynamips on a MacBook Pro (5)
- Dynamips, Dynagen, GNS3 0.7, IOS15.0 and Snow Leopard OSX (8)
- Dynamips: Snow Leopard works well. (9)
- Install GNS3 on Mac OSX Leopard (21)
- iTerm and Dynamips — write to all terminals at once (3)
- Reloading IOS config at CLI for Dynamips/Dynagen (1)
- Suspending and resuming Dynamips (4)
- Tips for Dynamips / Dynagen on Leopard OS X (8)
- Unzip Cisco IOS images for Dynamips (6)
- Category: Netscreen
- Category: OSX
- Caring for your Dynamips install — deleting unwanted files (2)
- Configuring iTerm for Dynamips
- Configuring Network Locations in Mac OSX. (5)
- Dynamips and the Leopard terminal
- Dynamips on a MacBook Pro (5)
- Dynamips, Dynagen, GNS3 0.7, IOS15.0 and Snow Leopard OSX (8)
- Flush DNS cache on MAC OS X
- Installing Tun Tap Driver on Leopard (16)
- iTerm and Dynamips — write to all terminals at once (3)
- Monolingual and Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server
- Monolingual, OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard — saving space (1)
- Nerdgasm:SRS WOW for iTunes — magic
- Network Tools, craftsmen and why my Mac is a good hammer
- OS X:Terminal break for Serial Console on OS X (3)
- OS X:Using Web Kit for HTTP, website analysis and network testing
- OS X:Why it “looks” so different. (3)
- OSX: Changing Hibernation mode — UPDATED (2)
- OSX: eject key joyfulness (1)
- OSX: Snow Leopard and TFTP server-ing (1)
- OSX: Text Editing (6)
- OSX: Tools — Webkit as Web Browser (3)
- OSX:Punditry — Four options from Apple in September — unexpected!
- Review: goSerial — Console Break for Network Devices on OSX (5)
- Serial Console on OSX (12)
- Suspending and resuming Dynamips (4)
- Switching Network Locations from the Menu Bar (2)
- Tip:ASDM works on OSX (6)
- Tips for Dynamips / Dynagen on Leopard OS X (8)
- Unzip Cisco IOS images for Dynamips (6)
- Upgraded to 320GB HDD in my MacBook Pro (3)
- Using Choosy for OSX. A better way to use multiple browsers. (3)
- Category: Reviews
- Category: Storage
- Blessay: FCoE is JUST a transition Technology (9)
- DCB, CEE or DCE ? Whose term is best ? (13)
- FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree (8)
- FCoE isn’t a replacement for Infiniband, it’s a cheaper copy that customers will buy (11)
- Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges (9)
- Storage: Emulex silicon will have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a single chip
- The case against FCoE AND Fibrechannel — a reasonably complete view (10)
- Why does iSCSI use TCP instead of IP ? (12)
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