Archive for July, 2008

  • When I Wasn’t Looking: Foundry Gets Proposed To

    When I Wasn’t Looking: Foundry Gets Proposed To

    So, when you’re not looking, stuff happens.  I turn my head for a minute, and I come to find Foundry Networks gets bought by Brocade.  Ok, not bought yet, but in definate agreement to. Also, one of my favorite bloggers, Fake Steve Jobs, calls it...

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  • 3 Tools For Diagnosing Load Balancer Problems

    3 Tools For Diagnosing Load Balancer Problems

    I realized that this was a dupe, but I think the topic is a little more effective.  Plus, I haven’t written anything in a while.  Every craftsman has their tools, and I’ve got three in particular that I use: Telnet (Layer 4 TCP testing utility,...

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  • Vendor News: A10 Receives Cash Money

    Vendor News: A10 Receives Cash Money

    I’ve been getting a steady stream of emails recently from various vendors on various bits of industry news, and I’ve been remiss in posting them.  So I’m going to play a little catch up. First up is news from A10 Networks, and they report that...

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  • 3 Things You Need To Know About Etherchannel

    3 Things You Need To Know About Etherchannel

    EtherChannel is a strange creature.  It’s generally known as a way to load balance Ethernet traffic over multiple links.  Need more than 1 Gigabit of throughput, but don’t have 10 Gigabit interfaces yet?  Then bond two Gigabit links together in an EtherChannel link, and you’ve...

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