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Network Dictionary – RITA – Reliable Internetworking Troubleshooting Agent

10 August 2010 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment
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Define RITA

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The Balloon Story

28 September 2009 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments
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Quite some time ago, someone sent me this joke. To this day, it should be funny but it isn’t because it is still true.

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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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Why Does This Remind Me of Putting FCoE in My Network ?

30 June 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

This photo reminds me of networks that I have worked on. FCoE anyone ?

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What Is a CCIE ?

14 June 2008 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

Originally published at Techtarget when I sent it to them for fun. Reproduced here because I wrote it, and it still seems funny today. Note it is derivative from some joke that was around at the time. Interestingly, much of the puns on CCIE study topics are forgotten technology as modern CCIE’s no longer study [...]

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RFC 1925 – The Twelve Networking Truths

19 March 2008 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

Every network engineer should read this RFC, and understand what it means. Possibly, should be required reading for all CCNA candidates.

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Describing My Job to ‘Normal People’

17 March 2008 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments

I went to dinner with a group of guys on the weekend. (Yeah, I know, I am actually sort of normal sometimes). In one of those awkward moments, I had to describe what I did, I am wondering what you tell people that you do ?

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What Do I Do With the Leftover Cable ?

7 March 2008 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

What I love about this photograph is that someone did a beautiful job on the network gear and patch panel, and then just went, ahhh stuff it. Best practices pour le cablage réseau | French Cisco Users Group: “”

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