I have stumbled upon a recent post from Greg Ferro on Ethrealmind, the post is titled SDN is not an innovation, it’s an iteration. I actually wanted to share this post because it kind of puts things into prespective. The word innovate refers to creating something that is new and …

SDN, Software-Defined Networking, the trending technology that some friends/colleagues of mine like to refer to it as “Still Does Nothing”. Let’s see if it does some thing. SDN has been a market hype for few years now.  Out of laziness, I ignored it in the beginning then I had to …

If you aspire to become a network engineer, this post is going to guide you in making up your mind. Read through. From the outside, the whole information technology profession can seem mysterious. Mentioning IT summons various images ranging from artificially lit cubicle farms to young professionals roller skating through …

Got a core dump file, please contact your TAC engineers for further support ! This is the common statement that we all see on vendors’ websites and in their recommendations and it definetly is true.  The reason is that a core dump file contains information that requires deep knowledge of …

How often do you find yourself scratching your head, trying to remember a command that you knew by heart but just can’t remember when you need it most? It happens to me quite often. Probably because I am aging or may be there is too much stuff in my brain attic. …

A bit of background First .. PPPoE stands for Point to Point over Ethernet and is the successor of PPPoA. PPPoE is simply a method of encapsulating PPP packets into Ethernet frames. The standard is defined in RFC2516 . IPoE is growing very quickly but as far as I can tell PPPoE …