Introduction to Binary Numbers We’ve all seen it before. You put in that new fast 1 TB SSD only to find it has 931GB of space. What happened to that…
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Post-Pandemic Networking A few months ago EMA Research released a report on post-pandemic networking highlighting the state of remote work-from-home for enterprises. In that report, many interesting statistics and findings…
What is BGP? The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an exterior gateway protocol that is used to exchange routing updates between Autonomous Systems. It was first defined by RFC 1105…
Introduction Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021 and the initial announcement shocked the world as Microsoft implied that Windows 10 would be the last major OS release. Windows…
Hybrid Cloud Networks A hybrid cloud is an environment where an organization’s on-prem network is connected with a public cloud to provide end-to-end reachability to services and applications. This architecture,…
In this post we’ll cover wiring standards and connectors, which are part of the OSI Layer 1 (physical). If you missed the last post of the “A Techie’s Guide to…
There are several ways to get interface statistics on their network counters. The most basic one is to use the ip command (or the older ifconfig). There are other utilities…
Linux for Network Engineers eBook When I started blogging about Linux and network engineering I was coming from a strong background in Linux administration, and I was building my networking…
Secure Shell (ssh) is the standard way to connect to a remote machine’s shell. We routinely log in and use ssh to establish an interactive session and stay logged in…
Continuing our coverage of ping-verse, after pathping, fping, gping, prettyping, nping, today we’ll talk about dnsping! There is more to come… As its name reveals, dnsping is a utility that…
