The Balloon Story

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.

Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches

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’.

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

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

What Is a CCIE ?

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 Token Ring, DLSW, Appletalk […]

Network Dictionary — RITA — Reliable Internetworking Troubleshooting Agent

Reliable Internetworking Troubleshooting Agent RFC 2321
Key Facts
Firstly you should con­sult the RFC for back­ground.
You don’t hit some­thing with RITA, you ‘wang’ it.
Wanging your com­puter or router may not nec­ssar­ily fix it, but you will feel bet­ter
Wanging man­age­ment or co-​​​​workers is not gen­er­ally a good idea ™

RFC 1925 — the Twelve Networking Truths

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

Describing My Job to ‘Normal People’

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 ?

What Do I Do With the Leftover Cable ?

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.
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