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HP Networking Tech Day – 23 & 24 August 2010

11 August 2010 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments
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In some positive news, HP has reached out to the networking community and organised a Network Tech Day in Sacramento. They even invited me.

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Runt Packet No 5 – A Technical Services Manager Speaks

11 August 2010 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment
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Following the career discussions in some of our earlier podcasts, and his recent Blog Post “So you Want to be a Network Consultant” Kevin Bovis got in touch with me to talk about what sort of skills an engineer needs. We decided to record the discussion and so you can have even more Networking in your ears.

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Control CPU Usage in GNS3 / Dynamips With Process Lasso

2 June 2010 By John McManus 7 Comments
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have been a user of Dynamips/GNS3 for several years now and I can’t imagine what I would do without it. I use it for doing Proof Of Concept work and for Studying. This tip looks at managing CPU utilisation on Windows.

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How Long Does It Take to Become a CCIE From 0?

20 May 2010 By John McManus 16 Comments
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I don’t have the answer but in this not so brief post I can show you how long it took me and tell you a little about my journey.

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Sharing Ideas – GLBP and HSRP

20 May 2010 By John McManus 5 Comments

John McManus kicks off writing at EtherealMind with a look HSRP and GLBP First Hop Redundancy Protocols.

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Announcing the Packet Pushers Podcast – “Lab Scenario 1″

4 May 2010 By Greg Ferro 9 Comments
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What do you get when three opinionated, irritable, knowledgeable and community minded Network Engineers on the telephone to talk about life in the Networking industry ? And if you recorded those three CCIE’s and published it as a podcast ? What would that be like ?

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Network ZEN: OSPF or EIGRP

25 March 2010 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Network Zen on choosing OSPF or EIGRP routing protocols

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Rant: It’s a Yes / No Question & Cisco IOS Software Licensing Hell Begins Here

24 March 2010 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

For Crom’s sake, answer the question. Who let the marketing people write this stuff!!!

OH, AND Cisco IOS Software Licensing hell starts now. I’m calling it.

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Designer or Engineer, Artist or Painter

19 January 2010 By Greg Ferro 6 Comments

Are you a painter or an artist ? Are you an engineer or a designer ? Can you Paint with a Hammer?

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Blessay: Why I Think IP Telephony Is Over (and I’m Not Studying CCIE Voice)

7 January 2010 By Greg Ferro 25 Comments
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I think that IP Telephony is over and the whole idea of in house PBX is gently fading away to be replaced by Presence and Mobile phones.

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Etherealmind Has a New Look and Opens for Direct Sponsors

14 December 2009 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

Ethereal Mind has had a makeover on the weekend and has a new theme. I’m much happier with the look and feel and it seems a bit quicker. And I’m now taking direct advertising and sponsorship.

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Syntax: VLANs or VLAN’s ?

24 September 2009 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments

Given that I write designs a lot, I get to write the word VLAN quite a bit. I’m still wondering which is the best way ?

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Rant:My Growing Dislike of “Cross Marketing”

17 August 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

I purchase a new product / thing / software. I delight in opening / using / starting it for the first time. Then, an advertisement spews up for a related product. Lousy douchetards, if I wanted that, I would have bought it.

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Frame or Packets – Make Sure You Get It Right!

6 August 2009 By Greg Ferro 9 Comments

When you use the terms ‘frames’ or ‘packets’ make sure you get it right!

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Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches

3 August 2009 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments
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The Zen Master was meditating over his network, at oneness with the Flow. A student approached the master and asked ‘may I not stack the c3750 to create more connections to the Flow’.

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Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 Compatibility

21 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Recent discussions about legacy software requiring IE6 means that we will deploy Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

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Blog:Geek Pride – I’m So Proud of My Twitter Followers

15 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment
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Proud that my twitter followers are Cisco geeks!

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Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

4 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

“A lot of companies are using NFS as the preferred protocol to shared storage for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. In my personal experience, The administrative options and convenience of NFS is unmatched, and the virtual machine (VM) performance is surprising.”

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