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At Networking Field Day 11 I had the privilege of visiting Skyport Systems in Mountain View, CA and hearing first hand about their product offering, SkySecure. At first I thought Doug Gourlay was talking about some next-gen firewall until I realized … [Continue reading]
We had a lively round table debate about "how much security is enough?" during Networking Field Day 11. It's certainly not a pure networking question which some in the room debated is no longer, or perhaps has never been, the network engineer's … [Continue reading]
It's been a very busy but exciting week here in San Jose, CA attending Networking Field Day 11.We had presentations from Skyport Systems, NetScout (formerly Fluke), Big Switch, Silver Peak, Dell, Cisco and Citrix. The folks over at Gestalt IT … [Continue reading]
As you can imagine there are a large number of computers in my house and like most households we've had more than our fair share of hard drive failures so backing up our files (and pictures) has become an important task. About 18 months ago I setup … [Continue reading]
In a recent troubleshooting session with an Avaya IP Office system we had to perform packet traces from both an Avaya IP Office server using tcpdump and from an Avaya IP Office gateway using a port mirror on an Avaya 3500 series switch. The … [Continue reading]