NIX4NetEng #3: IP Addressing and Subnet Tools
IP addressing and subnetting is a common interview subject. I assert that memorizing these…
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NIX4NetEng #2 IPv4/6 address investigation tools – whois + dig
I don’t care what your vendor alignment of choice is, Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, Alcatel….it…
NIX4NetEng #1 Managing dotfiles; pwn the unspoken pain of UNIX administration
Many network engineers are also tasked with maintaining systems that provide network services, those…
Blending the Network; Pluribus ServerSwitch
I firmly believe that blending disciplines is the way of the future in IT.…
Replace ZFS RAIDZ1 disk
I recently had the displeasure of dealing with a series of failed disks in…
Install nfsen and nfdump on CentOS 6.5 for netflow and or sflow collection
I am an absolutely huge fan of statistical and instrumentation data, especially when it…
Fixing the dreaded "error: could not open configuration database (juniper.data+)" problem.
Working on some MX series routers recently I encountered a problem I’d never seen…
Building FlowVisor on Centos 6 – quick and dirty
I had the need to build a FlowVisor instance under CentOS. Since nearly all…
VMWare ESXi CLI reference
One of my biggest complaints about VMware is that it is an enterprise application.…
Broadcast input with iTerm
As much as I like to think I automate everything, I’m pretty bad at…