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Forward Networks came out of stealth with a great presentation at Networking Field Day 13. The company was founded by four Stanford PhDs and is funded by some of the [...]

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Overview I was recently troubleshooting a vPC port channel issue with a pair of Nexus 5500 switches that were trying to implement new port channels to two NetApp controllers. I [...]

Something a bit different came up in troubleshooting the past week, something I’d like to share briefly in case it bites you. Symptom: High CPU on core Nexus 7K in [...]

In case you didn’t read my previous blog on the topic, I’ll be a delegate at Networking Field Day 13, November 17-18 in Silicon Valley. I’m looking forward to demos [...]

I’ll be a delegate at Networking Field Day 13, November 17-18 in Silicon Valley. I’m looking forward to recharging my technical batteries with discussions and hot debates with my fellow [...]

Do you recall when service providers typically had to call upon Remote Trigger Blackhole (RTBH) to mitigate DDOS attacks? With RTBH, we only had two methods, source-based and destination-based. We [...]

The key business application is slow. It must be the network! The application worked fine in development and early deployment. The network team says that everything is running normally. No [...]

Do you remember source routing, used in token ring bridging networks? If you’re relatively new to networking, you may not know about it. In source routing, the hosts determine the [...]

I was recently troubleshooting an HSRP issue with two Nexus 5500 switches that both were in the active state. (I was trying to add HSRP to a long-running pair of [...]

I was recently troubleshooting an HSRP issue with two Nexus 5500 switches that both were in the active state. The root cause appeared to be a missing LAN_Base license. Although [...]

Edited by Marilyn Outerbridge Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of blog posts of NAT configuration. Click below for previous installments: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Table [...]