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Anyone have - Top Ten Stupid Networking Ideas
My interest was piqued when someone asked about getting a home DSL IPv6 ready and I recalled that you had commented on IPv6 a while back:) Not really sure where things are now but my impression is...
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data/control plane
Hello, very often I encounter such terms as "data plane", "control plane", "management plane". Are these Ethernet specific terms or used everywhere in telecommunications domain? And the important...
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One switch good, two switches bad
A small LAN whose gateway is a five port router has a workstation connected like so, Workstation switch router ( rest of the LAN ) I add another switch, i.e. Workstation new switch switch router The...
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IGMP
Hello I believe this is not off-topic, as IGMP now is a part of almost every decent Layer-2 switch. My question is is there a default behavior for the switch when IGMP is enable and there is a steady...
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Exponential Backoff - 51.2
Hi, I have been looking for exponential backoff algorithm and landed in the below link - above link conveys 51.2 =ECs as an 'example'. But, what should be optimal value instead of 51.2 ? Any ideas ?...
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Allied Telesyn switches, programmatic access
We have a stack of 6 AT - 8326GB switches (which we can access as a single hostname "switch4"), and a newer AT-80000S ("switch0"). switch0 was originally also an 8326GB, but was replaced with the...
 
10 G tap
Looking for a 10G tap solution. Any recommendations? Also is there a way to mux 1G flows into a 10G interface?
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MAC
Hello I seem to be developing a misunderstanding of MAC -- how necessary it can be in specifica cases. Let me give an example: I have a SoC, consisting of ARM-based proccessor with some peripherial...
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Combination of Leaky-Bucket and Token Bucket
Hi, It seems that the leaky-bucket and token bucket implementations can be combined to provide maximum efficiency and control of the traffic flows into a network. Reference - Section 'Inefficienty of...
 
is multicast *really* to all stations at once with a switch?
I was thinking about what it would take to synchronize two instances of netperf to get them to send their bursts at "the same time" to explore some switch buffering questions. I don't know that I'm...
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Router and LAN configuration
Hi, I have ( probably ) a silly question I want to change our router and I want to use a LAN network/subnet of Class A Let's suppose, that I setup a machine on my LAN with the IP address of...
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VLAN question
Hi, I made some test on VLAN, which were not really good. Let's suppose that I have 2 switches, fully ~"busy"... all ports in full activity and with NO VLAN. One of the switch has the access to...
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Ethernet packet size and QinQ standard?
A normative question: AS we all know, ethernet has a max packet size of 1514 bytes: 14 bytes header (dst + src + len/type), plus 1500 bytes data. For 802.1Q tagging, the spec was changed to allow a...
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[question from a beginner] line cards
Hello wikipedia describes line cards as typically used in telephone exchange systems to terminate connections. With regard to this I have two questions: 1) are there line cards used in Ethernet...
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Learning Data Engineering
I've been doing telecom for a long time, entirely familiar with TDM & SONET, etc. For the last two years I've also been working on Ethernet transport over SONET, and I've learned a lot. I also now...