Tail drop drawbacks TCP synchronization - Dropping TCP packets from different flows can cause them all to window down and back up again at the same time in cycles. TCP starvation - Non-TCP or …
A coworker brought an interesting problem to me the other day. He wanted to move a serverfarm from one server VLAN to another without taking an outage. Since I didn’t want to have to come into …
Here are some more notes from my studies. Of course, no one cares about them but me, but it’s my blog. I’m sure someone will find it useful. Please help to correct dumbass mistakes. Congestion …
Here’s another set of notes from my ONT studies. I’m sure someone will find it useful. Please help to correct dumbass mistakes. Classification is done with traffic desriptors Ingress …
I’ll try to keep it a little shorter this time. Major issues for converged enterprise networks Available bandwidth: competition among applications Fixes Increase bandwidth: More power! Properly …
Here are some of the notes I’ve been taking while reading over the ONT book. I hope it benefits somebody. Feel free to correct any stupid mistakes as a paraphrase to avoid a lawsuit. …
Here we are at the end of another year. It’s been a pretty good one for me - the wife got a new job, we have a new house, we’re in good health. I hope that you, too, have had a great year. …
I took and passed the ISCW test today. I was super-nervous going into it, which is weird for me, but I finally calmed down after the first few questions. Here’s my take. I don’t want to …
I coworker sent over a link today that got me thinking about an old adage that I’ve been sharing for years. The link actually has nothing to do with the philosophy but did trigger a random …