Solarwinds posted something on twitter recently, a picture of a T-Shirt which had printed “I find your lack of backups disturbing”. Being a star wars fan myself this did make me chuckle. I don’t have a great deal of experience with storage other than providing connectivity for storage platforms to the network. Since a recent
One of the objectives of a recent home network redesign was to incorporate IP Surveillance cameras. I’ve always had external cameras at home, I like the assurance I get from 24 hour visibility of my property. It’s reassuring to access the surveillance setup remotely and check up on the house. My old setup was a stand alone
I’ve recently re-designed and implemented a new network for home. A blog post will follow shortly detailing the design and my reasoning behind it all. This afternoon I’ve been kicking the tyres on the new build and making some tweaks here and there to maximize the performance. One of the tests I ran was a
Superbly written by Laura Chappell the Wireshark Network Analysis (Second Edition) is a must have book. Not only to learn the Wireshark tool in great depth but also protocol analysis in general. I’ve been eager to study for the WCNA (Wireshark Certified Network Analyst) for some time now so I made the purchase a few
A few months back I registered with Brocade for a promotion to study and take the Brocade Certified vrouter Engineer exam (BCVRE). I’ve had some time recently to take the online course, install the vyatta vrouter in my lab and have a play. I took the exam this morning and passed, I thought I’d write a few notes
If your designing networks regularly I highly recommend this Network Design Cookbook. The first few chapters lay out a clear structure to design from the intial phase, design phase, proposal phase, review, pre & post implementation. Sure, its Cisco focused but the principals could be adopted for any vendor of hardware. Be aware this book is
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