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In October 2009, Dr. Pete Welcher presented these slides at a Bluesnet Network Advisory Group meeting in Santa Barbara, CA. This presentation covers 802.11 WLAN traffic flows (control, data, VoWLAN) in [...]

In October 2009, Dr. Pete Welcher presented these slides at a Bluesnet Network Advisory Group meeting in Santa Barbara, CA. This presentation covers Wireless LAN (WLAN, WiFi, 802.11) Project Management — [...]

In October 2009, Dr. Pete Welcher presented these slides at a Bluesnet Network Advisory Group meeting in Santa Barbara, CA.This presentation covers Wireless LAN (WLAN, WiFi, 802.11) vendors. One conclusion [...]

In October 2009, Dr. Pete Welcher presented these slides at a Bluesnet Network Advisory Group meeting in Santa Barbara, CA. This presentation covers RF (radio frequency) essentials you need to [...]

In October 2009, Dr. Pete Welcher presented these slides at a Bluesnet Network Advisory Group meeting in Santa Barbara, CA. This presentation covers some of the acronyms and basics of [...]

I just finished posting a neat syslog summary script that was passed to me by Phil Koontz.  He uses it every day to keep track of syslog events. The summary [...]

In September I discussed a feature called "Call Forward Unregistered" or CFUR.  The point of this feature is to allow administrators to specify special call handling rules when an SRST enabled device was unregistered.  I wanted to use CFUR as an example to illustrate how Local Route Groups and other…

I’m continuing the list of NMS event handling requirements. Unstable interfaces In the last post, Syslog Summary Script. -Terry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Re-posted with Permission  NetCraftsmen would like to acknowledge Infoblox for [...]

I’ve been examining the handling of event data and wanted to share what I see as common requirements.  For the next few posts, I’ll describe the requirements and why they [...]

Part 2 of my experiments with VRF-Lite, which provides more thoughts on whether the customer edge (CE) device should run one or more VRFs. (Part 1 is available here CE Design [...]

In the previous posts (Handling NMS Performance Data, Part 2, and network management systems require that the administrator identify important interfaces or rank interface importance — a manually intensive process.  [...]

n the last post network management system may look easy.  But it is much more than just collecting some data and building an interface that allows the network administrator to [...]