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Speaking of Speeds

18.Oct.07 | 3 Comments

Apparently some of the promised Comcast upgrades are reaching my neck of the suburbs:

Hows that compare to what you folks have? (click the image to run your own test)

Bandwidth Monitoring and …

17.Jul.07 | 4 Comments

When it comes to network management, I’ve always been more of a “let’s buy some switches and pull some cable” kind of guy. Actually managing, extending and supporting an existing network was never all that interesting to me.
Now that it’s party of my job, however, I suddenly care a lot more than I used [...]

Linux Can Still Frustrate

16.Jul.07 | 6 Comments

I swear, my Toshiba laptop just doesn’t want to run Ubuntu Linux. It should — it used to with older versions. Tonight I went through almost the exact same experience as what happened back in April. (failure)
See, I want to do some network bandwidth monitoring this week at work. After a look around, it seems [...]

ARP Proxy / Proxy ARP?

18.May.07 | 9 Comments

Network geeks — you out there?
So here’s the poop: I have a handful of servers running services that I’d like to expose to the outside world, but behind a firewall. So I want to create some subdomain names like service.example.com, ws.example.com, issues.example.com, etc. Each resolves to a different IP address in our [...]

New Role / New DSL Line

03.May.07 | 3 Comments

I’m going to start with a personal Note:
I accepted a new role at work this week.  In hindsight it is a role I’ve been doing on and off for quite some time (especially the last few months), but now it is formalized and I get a spiffy new title.  No longer is it a “when I [...]

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