tony at lbdigest dot com.
I may even use your question as a post so that it may help others (anonymous, if you so choose).
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 a blog and starts posting under his real name.
I’m assuming [...]
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, Layer 7 interface)
OpenSSL (When Layer 4 is wrapped with encryption)
HTTP Analyzers [...]
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 they’ve recieved $23 million in Series C funding. Details are here.
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 got 2 Gigabits. That’s the idea, at least. However, it’s [...]
