https://packetqueue.net/Recent content on PacketQueueHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 30 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/series-of-buildings/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/series-of-buildings/“The Internet is not something that you just dump something on.https://packetqueue.net/blog/commvault-tfdx-rsac26/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/commvault-tfdx-rsac26/Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth — Mike Tysonhttps://packetqueue.net/blog/object-first-tfdx-rsac26/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/object-first-tfdx-rsac26/“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.https://packetqueue.net/blog/veeam-tfdx-rsac26/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/veeam-tfdx-rsac26/Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated BS meter.https://packetqueue.net/blog/security-audits/Thu, 02 May 2024 15:52:24 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/security-audits/If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and external threats.https://packetqueue.net/blog/zerto/Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:10:38 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/zerto/I think that security is still the hottest topic in the IT world right now, the faux AI craze notwithstanding.https://packetqueue.net/blog/security-field-day-2024/Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:44:01 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/security-field-day-2024/In my current role in the IT industry, I think about disaster recovery (DR), continuous data protection (CDP), and overall ransomware recovery almost all the time.https://packetqueue.net/blog/moving-to-hugo/Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:42:25 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/moving-to-hugo/Since its inception, this blog has run on WordPress. I hosted it with a hosting provider, who gave me a dedicated VM on which I installed WordPress and the assorted tools, themes, and plugins to make it run how I wanted it to.https://packetqueue.net/blog/new/Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:50:47 -0700https://packetqueue.net/blog/new/I’m finally back after several years of writing in just about any place other than my lovely blog.https://packetqueue.net/software-defined-cisco-and-devnet/Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:22:54 +0000https://packetqueue.net/software-defined-cisco-and-devnet/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes It has been said that soft­ware is eat­ing the world.https://packetqueue.net/non-generic-tips-for-cisco-live/Mon, 07 May 2018 04:21:16 +0000https://packetqueue.net/non-generic-tips-for-cisco-live/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: This was writ­ten by my love­ly wife, Jen­nifer Bryson, after a frus­trat­ing few days of read­ing the same hack­neyed advice for con­ven­tion goers.https://packetqueue.net/corporate-jargon-and-argle-bargle/Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:10:30 +0000https://packetqueue.net/corporate-jargon-and-argle-bargle/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “I think we invent jar­gon because it saves times talk­ing to one-anoth­er.https://packetqueue.net/some-thoughts-on-cisco-live-orlando-2018/Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:02:28 +0000https://packetqueue.net/some-thoughts-on-cisco-live-orlando-2018/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: This is a guest post by my won­der­ful wife, Jen­nifer Brysonhttps://packetqueue.net/we-broke-it-purchasing/Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:07:28 +0000https://packetqueue.net/we-broke-it-purchasing/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes “What is the dif­fer­ence between uneth­i­cal and eth­i­cal adver­tis­ing?https://packetqueue.net/just-write-is-just-right/Sun, 09 Apr 2017 03:44:13 +0000https://packetqueue.net/just-write-is-just-right/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes I took my daugh­ter and step­son to see one of my favorite authors a cou­ple of days ago.https://packetqueue.net/uila-visions-of-the-future/Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:37:11 +0000https://packetqueue.net/uila-visions-of-the-future/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes If it’s true that a pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words, then nascent soft­ware com­pa­ny Uila has writ­ten a nov­el with their break­out soft­ware prod­uct for mon­i­tor­ing, and per­form­ing root cause analy­sis on, vir­tu­al­ized and phys­i­cal net­work infra­struc­ture, bridg­ing the gap between both.https://packetqueue.net/living-the-command-line-dream-with-mutt/Sun, 15 Jan 2017 05:31:14 +0000https://packetqueue.net/living-the-command-line-dream-with-mutt/Read­ing Time: 6 min­utes It prob­a­bly stems from how long I have been using com­put­ers, and what my first com­put­er inter­faces looked like, but I have been enam­ored of com­mand line inter­faces since, well, for­ev­er.https://packetqueue.net/glue-networks-changes-the-automation-game/Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:28:19 +0000https://packetqueue.net/glue-networks-changes-the-automation-game/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “Sim­plic­i­ty is the ulti­mate sophis­ti­ca­tion.” Clare Boothe Lucehttps://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2016-wrap-up/Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:00:53 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2016-wrap-up/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes The 2016 Cis­co Live con­ven­tion has just wrapped up, and I felt I should write a post-con­ven­tion arti­cle as my own cathar­tic way of send­ing it out with a bow on top.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-announces-virl-on-cloud/Thu, 11 Feb 2016 04:25:07 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-announces-virl-on-cloud/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Cis­co just announced today that their VIRL prod­uct, for­mer­ly only avail­able in a per­son­al edi­tion, and an enter­prise edi­tion, will be avail­able in a cloud host­ed ver­sion soon.https://packetqueue.net/zerostack-simplified-and-automated-openstack/Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:33:37 +0000https://packetqueue.net/zerostack-simplified-and-automated-openstack/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes “Clut­ter and con­fu­sion are fail­ures of design, not attrib­ut­es of infor­ma­tion.https://packetqueue.net/virtualization-field-day-6/Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:10:55 +0000https://packetqueue.net/virtualization-field-day-6/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes I’m sit­ting here watch­ing an episode of Top Gear as I write this, and wax­ing con­tem­pla­tive on my recent invi­ta­tion to both a Tech Field Day one-day event and Vir­tu­al Field Day 6 .https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-us-2015-customer-appreciation-event-band/Sat, 07 Feb 2015 01:56:53 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-us-2015-customer-appreciation-event-band/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes I just want­ed to post a quick announce­ment around the band for Cis­co Live this year.https://packetqueue.net/a-wendys-cheeseburger-hepburn-on-my-iphone-and-cancer/Tue, 13 May 2014 03:19:04 +0000https://packetqueue.net/a-wendys-cheeseburger-hepburn-on-my-iphone-and-cancer/Read­ing Time: 9 min­utes “__ In my heart, I will always be the girl with­out the met­al, and you will always be the boy with all his bits.https://packetqueue.net/brocade-builds-a-team-of-visionaries/Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:48:07 +0000https://packetqueue.net/brocade-builds-a-team-of-visionaries/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute http://web.archive.org/web/20210419160534/http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/brocade-builds-a-team-of-visionaries.htmlhttps://packetqueue.net/packet-pushers-podcast-and-network-field-day-7/Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:31:03 +0000https://packetqueue.net/packet-pushers-podcast-and-network-field-day-7/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes “I think of myself as some­thing of a con­nois­seur of pro­cras­ti­na­tion, cre­ative and dogged in my approach to not get­ting things done.https://packetqueue.net/the-writing-process-as-photography/Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:00:59 +0000https://packetqueue.net/the-writing-process-as-photography/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I’m cur­rent­ly work­ing on mul­ti­ple writ­ing projects, as well as look­ing for­ward to begin­ning a new, dif­fer­ent gig tomor­row, so my office is a bit messy.https://packetqueue.net/choice-or-the-illusion-of-choice/Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:13:23 +0000https://packetqueue.net/choice-or-the-illusion-of-choice/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I recent­ly wrote an arti­cle for searchS­DN at TechTar­get on the sub­ject of choice in the SDN mar­kets.https://packetqueue.net/buggy_whips/Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:06:18 +0000https://packetqueue.net/buggy_whips/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Two roads diverged in a yel­low wood,https://packetqueue.net/cisco-modeling-lab-cml/Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:00:54 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-modeling-lab-cml/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute The prod­uct for­mer­ly known as VIRL has been rebrand­ed and is slat­ed for release in the first half of 2014.https://packetqueue.net/network-field-day-calendar/Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:55:56 +0000https://packetqueue.net/network-field-day-calendar/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute For those of you who under­stand what Tech Field Day is, and want to fol­low this week’s events, feel free to use this cal­en­dar to track the events.https://packetqueue.net/burnout-redux/Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:34:59 +0000https://packetqueue.net/burnout-redux/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Late­ly I have been strug­gling with career burnout.https://packetqueue.net/softwareprogramming/Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:53:26 +0000https://packetqueue.net/softwareprogramming/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Soft­ware pro­gram­ming is a chal­leng­ing endeav­or. I know, because it’s how I start­ed my career, and it’s still some­thing I do for fun and to keep my net­work engi­neer­ing skills sharp.https://packetqueue.net/network-monkey/Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:12:12 +0000https://packetqueue.net/network-monkey/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Pub­lic Ser­vice Announce­ment of the day: I’ve long believed that the Trunk Mon­key secu­ri­ty sys­tem should be avail­able in a net­work mon­key form.https://packetqueue.net/osx-x11-forwarding/Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:04:27 +0000https://packetqueue.net/osx-x11-forwarding/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes I access var­i­ous Unix and Unix-like sys­tems all the time.https://packetqueue.net/on-titles-certifications-and-not-my-job/Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:59:34 +0000https://packetqueue.net/on-titles-certifications-and-not-my-job/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes I’ve nev­er con­sid­ered myself—strictly speaking—a net­work engi­neer, or any­thing in par­tic­u­lar like that.https://packetqueue.net/sdn-explained/Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:27:39 +0000https://packetqueue.net/sdn-explained/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Soft­ware Defined Net­work­ing Explained: type­def struct net­work {https://packetqueue.net/on-writing/Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:08:49 +0000https://packetqueue.net/on-writing/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes So, you want to be a writer?https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-and-social-media-redux/Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:49:05 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-and-social-media-redux/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute A few peo­ple you might rec­og­nize, includ­ing yours tru­ly, are fea­tured here in a video for Cis­co Live.https://packetqueue.net/the-api-obsession/Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:43:06 +0000https://packetqueue.net/the-api-obsession/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: Any resem­blance to per­sons liv­ing or dead, known or unknown, read about, heard about, talked about, dreamt about (just once, don’t ask) not intend­ed.https://packetqueue.net/interview-questions-i-hate-part-i/Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:21:13 +0000https://packetqueue.net/interview-questions-i-hate-part-i/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes “So, why do you want to work here?https://packetqueue.net/coping-with-difficult-bosses/Fri, 16 Aug 2013 03:32:51 +0000https://packetqueue.net/coping-with-difficult-bosses/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Author Jan­ice Davies said, “dif­fi­cult peo­ple are your key to self empow­er­ment, you need to learn how to cope with them, not let them dom­i­nate and affect you.https://packetqueue.net/sdn-myths/Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:45:05 +0000https://packetqueue.net/sdn-myths/Read­ing Time: 6 min­utes In 1876, an inter­nal memo at West­ern Union is report­ed to have read: “This ‘tele­phone’ has too many short­com­ings to be seri­ous­ly con­sid­ered as a means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.https://packetqueue.net/my-osx/Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:09:27 +0000https://packetqueue.net/my-osx/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes I have decid­ed to take a quick break from my more busi­ness-ori­ent­ed writ­ing of late to focus on some­thing that peo­ple seem to have an inter­est in: how I have my com­put­er set up and con­fig­ured.https://packetqueue.net/disclaimers/Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:51:41 +0000https://packetqueue.net/disclaimers/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes This prod­uct is meant for edu­ca­tion­al pur­pos­es only.https://packetqueue.net/sdn-in-the-enterprise/Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:15:25 +0000https://packetqueue.net/sdn-in-the-enterprise/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I recent­ly wrote a mul­ti-part blog series for Cis­co and, as we know, while it may seem like the writ­ing is all of the work, get­ting the word out is at least as hard.https://packetqueue.net/how-to-not-get-fired/Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:51:58 +0000https://packetqueue.net/how-to-not-get-fired/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes “Very thin line between arro­gance and confidence…Being hum­ble is that line.https://packetqueue.net/sales-advice-to-vars/Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:09:46 +0000https://packetqueue.net/sales-advice-to-vars/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes There’s an old busi­ness adage that says, “All things being equal, peo­ple want to do busi­ness with their friends.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-a-spouses-viewpoint/Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:43:58 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-a-spouses-viewpoint/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Teren and I just returned from Cis­co Live in Orlan­do.https://packetqueue.net/clus-2012-photos/Mon, 27 May 2013 02:48:04 +0000https://packetqueue.net/clus-2012-photos/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Because we are com­ing up so quick­ly on Cis­co Live 2013 in Orlan­do, and because it is a Sun­day evening and I can­not find a sin­gle thing I am moti­vat­ed to write about, I decid­ed to build a pho­to gallery of some of my pho­tos from last year’s Cis­co Live con­fer­ence in San Diego.https://packetqueue.net/disneyworld-discounts-for-clus-attendees/Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:41 +0000https://packetqueue.net/disneyworld-discounts-for-clus-attendees/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute My wife and I were review­ing our post-Cis­co Live plans (hint: we’re Dis­ney junkies) and came across a nifty deal that we were unaware of.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2013/Fri, 03 May 2013 22:15:10 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2013/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes _ “Knowl­edge has to be improved, chal­lenged, and increased con­stant­ly, or it van­ish­es.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-networkerslive-breaking-news/Fri, 03 May 2013 21:25:46 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-networkerslive-breaking-news/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Trans­form­ershttps://packetqueue.net/asa-upgrade-to-9-02/Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:56:33 +0000https://packetqueue.net/asa-upgrade-to-9-02/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes “In the­o­ry there is no dif­fer­ence between the­o­ry and prac­tice.https://packetqueue.net/working-the-comp-plan/Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:49:07 +0000https://packetqueue.net/working-the-comp-plan/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes We’re adding a lit­tle some­thing to this mon­th’s sales con­test.https://packetqueue.net/complexity-is-relative/Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:23:36 +0000https://packetqueue.net/complexity-is-relative/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes “There is always a well-known solu­tion to every human problem–neat, plau­si­ble, and wrong.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2013-announcement/Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:57:09 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2013-announcement/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I just received this from one of my Linked-in groups and thought I’d share it:https://packetqueue.net/the-burnout-an-engineer-becomes-disillusioned/Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:08:16 +0000https://packetqueue.net/the-burnout-an-engineer-becomes-disillusioned/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes The Burnout “You don’t burn out from going too fast.https://packetqueue.net/open-letter-to-a-failed-job-applicant/Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:55:14 +0000https://packetqueue.net/open-letter-to-a-failed-job-applicant/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “Life is hard. It’s hard­er if you’re stu­pid.https://packetqueue.net/the-winter-of-my-discontent/Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:51:19 +0000https://packetqueue.net/the-winter-of-my-discontent/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes “If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you can­not learn any oth­er way.https://packetqueue.net/policy-based-vpn-between-juniper-srx-and-cisco-asa/Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:31:03 +0000https://packetqueue.net/policy-based-vpn-between-juniper-srx-and-cisco-asa/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes One of the things that I am called upon to do fair­ly often in my cur­rent role is to con­fig­ure remote access VPN devices for some site or anoth­er.https://packetqueue.net/email-facts-of-life/Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:16:38 +0000https://packetqueue.net/email-facts-of-life/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes In light of some recent emails, Face­book and Twit­ter updates, and pan­icked calls from the user com­mu­ni­ty at large, I thought it was about time to res­ur­rect this time-worn–and some­what hackneyed–screed on email.https://packetqueue.net/ipv6-feature-parity-lack-of-rant/Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:16:30 +0000https://packetqueue.net/ipv6-feature-parity-lack-of-rant/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes The cur­rent state of IPv6 sup­port in many ven­dors prod­ucts makes me want to don­key-kick some­one right in the… well, let’s just say it upsets me.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2012-schedule/Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:07:14 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2012-schedule/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Everyone–My sched­ule (as it stands cur­rent­ly) for Cis­co Live in San Diego this year is below.https://packetqueue.net/windows-7-and-ipv6/Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:51:57 +0000https://packetqueue.net/windows-7-and-ipv6/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes One of the projects that I began ear­ly last year is an IPv6 roll­out across our entire world­wide net­work.https://packetqueue.net/musings-on-storage/Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:44:52 +0000https://packetqueue.net/musings-on-storage/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes I know I haven’t exact­ly been fill­ing the blog-space with use­ful tid­bits, ran­dom ram­blings, or mus­ings on clown psy­chol­o­gy late­ly.https://packetqueue.net/advice-for-the-neophyte-it-aspirant/Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:27:45 +0000https://packetqueue.net/advice-for-the-neophyte-it-aspirant/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes After 17 years in the indus­try I have decid­ed that it is time to pass down some advice to the new­er entrants in to the field of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy.https://packetqueue.net/screen-and-reverse-telnet-with-macbook-pro/Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:45:02 +0000https://packetqueue.net/screen-and-reverse-telnet-with-macbook-pro/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes As a lot of read­ers already know, from com­ments and dis­cus­sions on oth­er forums, I recent­ly made the switch from PC to Mac for my main per­son­al com­put­er.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2011-cae/Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:49:42 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2011-cae/Read­ing Time: < 1 minutehttps://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-sunday-labtorial/Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:44:59 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-sunday-labtorial/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes This post is late in com­ing, con­sid­er­ing that I’ve been back from Cis­co Live for a good cou­ple of weeks now.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2010-photos/Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:33:54 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-2010-photos/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Just a brief recap of Cis­co Live 2010 in pho­tos:https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live/Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:14:05 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute I just want­ed to drop a quick note here to let every­one know that I plan on blog­ging a lit­tle more fre­quent­ly this week, as I’ll be in Las Vegas for the annu­al North Amer­i­can Cis­co con­fer­ence: Cis­co Networkers/Live.https://packetqueue.net/nostalgia/Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:18:03 +0000https://packetqueue.net/nostalgia/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute So, nos­tal­gia about com­put­ers and the “good ole’ days” gets strong with me when­ev­er I turn on my old Apple II, or pull out any old mag­a­zines from the ear­ly 80’s or 90’s.https://packetqueue.net/ipv6-half-truths/Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:20:14 +0000https://packetqueue.net/ipv6-half-truths/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes This post will be a short one, and most­ly just comes from a dis­cus­sion I had the oth­er day with anoth­er engi­neer.https://packetqueue.net/home-ccie-study-lab/Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:34:26 +0000https://packetqueue.net/home-ccie-study-lab/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes So, a lot of peo­ple who are work­ing towards their CCIE cer­ti­fi­ca­tions end up build­ing home labs for study­ing.https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-11-schedule/Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:47:56 +0000https://packetqueue.net/cisco-live-11-schedule/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Every­one has been post­ing their sched­ules for Cis­co Live to Twit­ter, Face­book and wher­ev­er else, so I thought I’d bet­ter jump in with the cool kids and pub­lish mine as well.https://packetqueue.net/why_blog/Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:50:22 +0000https://packetqueue.net/why_blog/“If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.https://packetqueue.net/frame-relay-switch-setup/Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:50:07 +0000https://packetqueue.net/frame-relay-switch-setup/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: Google Chrome seems to dis­like my site theme and is hyphen­at­ing absolute­ly every­thing.https://packetqueue.net/nexus-crash/Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:03:46 +0000https://packetqueue.net/nexus-crash/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes As is typ­i­cal in the world of IT, prob­lems have a way of sneak­ing up on you when you least expect it, then vicious­ly attack­ing you with a Bil­ly-club.https://packetqueue.net/asa-tu-redux/Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:27:44 +0000https://packetqueue.net/asa-tu-redux/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Edi­tor’s Note: If you haven’t already, check out the first install­ment in this–hopefully not ongoing–series at http://blog.https://packetqueue.net/why-bonjour-hates-my-wireless-network/Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:56:35 +0000https://packetqueue.net/why-bonjour-hates-my-wireless-network/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes Why Bon­jour Hates my Wire­less Net­workhttps://packetqueue.net/ccie-written-350-001/Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:05:34 +0000https://packetqueue.net/ccie-written-350-001/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Pass­ing the CCIE R&S Writ­ten (350–001)https://packetqueue.net/random-thoughts/Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:21:45 +0000https://packetqueue.net/random-thoughts/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Random (and not so deep) Thoughts by Some Clown I haven’t been writ­ing a lot late­ly, most­ly due to a com­bi­na­tion of my work and study sched­ule.https://packetqueue.net/itunes-home-sharing/Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:30:24 +0000https://packetqueue.net/itunes-home-sharing/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes iTunes Home Sharing A decent into the hell of Bon­jour and black tur­tle-neckshttps://packetqueue.net/88/Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:28:09 +0000https://packetqueue.net/88/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Things I Hate, Episode 1 Brought to you by the Imped­i­ment-to-Sales Sales depart­menthttps://packetqueue.net/vacation-is-over-now-get-yer-ass-back-to-work/Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:56:02 +0000https://packetqueue.net/vacation-is-over-now-get-yer-ass-back-to-work/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Well, it’s over. Vaca­tions always seem way too short.https://packetqueue.net/back-from-china/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:28:26 +0000https://packetqueue.net/back-from-china/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Back from China After rough­ly one week in Shang­hai, Chi­na to set up a new site on our cor­po­rate net­work, it is painful­ly appar­ent that I need to get back into this writ­ing busi­ness.https://packetqueue.net/shanghai-dreaming/Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:35:16 +0000https://packetqueue.net/shanghai-dreaming/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute Wow I’ve been busy late­ly. I real­ized this not just from how I feel and by look­ing at my meet­ing cal­en­dar, but also because I just noticed the month that has gone by since my last post­ing.https://packetqueue.net/802-1x-for-wired-networks-part-2/Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:08:55 +0000https://packetqueue.net/802-1x-for-wired-networks-part-2/Read­ing Time: 6 min­utes One of the nice things about work­ing with Cis­co equip­ment, as opposed to many oth­er brands, is that you tru­ly do get a smor­gas­bord of fea­tures and capa­bil­i­ties.https://packetqueue.net/new-post-delay/Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:24:40 +0000https://packetqueue.net/new-post-delay/Read­ing Time: < 1 minute For all of you pay­ing any atten­tion at all, I owe you an apol­o­gy on the com­plete lack of writ­ing the last week or so.https://packetqueue.net/802-1x-for-wired-networks-part-i/Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:30 +0000https://packetqueue.net/802-1x-for-wired-networks-part-i/Read­ing Time: 3 min­utes Most of you are prob­a­bly famil­iar with the IEEE 802.https://packetqueue.net/telco-fail/Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:25:29 +0000https://packetqueue.net/telco-fail/Read­ing Time: 5 min­utes Last Thurs­day after­noon, at approx­i­mate­ly 2:25pm, there was a loud suck­ing sound that can only be heard by net­work engi­neers con­di­tioned to expect bad, ugly things to hap­pen at inop­por­tune times, and all upstream con­nec­tiv­i­ty to our cor­po­rate office died.https://packetqueue.net/2960-s-1st-impressions/Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:56:22 +0000https://packetqueue.net/2960-s-1st-impressions/Read­ing Time: 4 min­utes Just notic­ing some dif­fer­ences in this 2960‑S mod­el switch; things I haven’t seen before in this prod­uct line.https://packetqueue.net/putty/Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:56:38 +0000https://packetqueue.net/putty/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes When I think of all of the tools I use on a reg­u­lar basis to do my job more effec­tive­ly, there are a hand­ful that stand out as being the most use­ful of all.https://packetqueue.net/asa-tu/Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:10:44 +0000https://packetqueue.net/asa-tu/Read­ing Time: 2 min­utes You ever have one of those weeks where every­thing that can go wrong, does?https://packetqueue.net/privacy-policy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://packetqueue.net/privacy-policy/Responsibility of Contributors Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://packetqueue.net/authors/teren-bryson/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://packetqueue.net/authors/teren-bryson/Network engineer and technologist with 27+ years of experience, former Director at Bluetooth SIG, and consultant to Fortune 100 CIOs and CTOs.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000