Re: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Label everything! Color coding is great for most but some people have problems distinguishing color.
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Always, always have a back-out strategy! If you can't move forward to a working solution, make sure you have a way back to where you started.
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Fiddler. That is new to me. I am working on a problem that it can solve. Thanks!
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Messy cabling? Here are some simple tips to keep your cabling neat. Remember, as soon as your cabling starts to get messy, it's usually a one way trip that will just get worse. 1. My number one tip...
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Top tip for keeping your WAN happy: Learn about QoS and implement a policy to protect all your apps. You also do not have to rely solely on the meagre 3 data queues that your WAN service provider...
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^ This ! I'm about the deploy something like this in all my sites so that when someone yells "network is slowww", I can remote to that machine and check the status of the network live.
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Having good monitoring also helps in that type of situation. Being able to monitor the uplinks of a switch with something like Netflow/Jflow also helps. But always good to have a sniffer somewhere in...
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I do the cmd.exe configurations quite the same way, but it's so ingrained that I would never have thought of mentioning that... Good one !
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Yeah... my wife often throws me puzzled looks when I do this, exclaiming : "Glad I could help you... I didn't understand a word you said though..."
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Great advice! I like to pair that with a healthy dose of "don't try to fix anything until you understand the problem." Too often I've seen engineers flail about trying to resolve an outage by issuing...
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Hi,do you track the counts of connections via wire vs. the wireless ones?I'm wondering how many organizations have already reached the 1:1 wire vs. wifi ratio (or even higher penetration of Wifi...
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Mark and identify those cables-over and over... and just have the same few people.More people, less communications and before you know it you looking at a random cable sticking out of a wall wondering...
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All my tricks seem to be non technical ones 1: Commit to the idea that you might be wrong, and when you are fall on your sword because the 3 most important words in IT are "I don't know".2: Sometimes...
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follow the MAC or IP Route. This helps me figure out where the issue is 90% of the time. Then it is ussually a misconfiguration there, at the last device.
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Most already mentioned. The Solarwinds suite, cmd tools (netstat, tracert, nbtstat, ping, nslookup), Putty, Notepad++, Wireshark, VMware tools, WMIC (WMI command line), various other tools as needed....
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Re: Possible to find source of broadcast traffic?
If you have netflow configured and NTA installed, you could look for the broadcast address as an endpoint and work your way back from there.
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Label, Label, Label the cables in a uniform manner on both ends before running the cable then "ring out" the cable once prior to connecting it to any equipment. Document, Document, Document your...
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the traceroute mac command on Cisco IOS. Quite frankly the quickest way to find a misbehaving device I've found
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they have the same principle in programming, I have a degree in computer programming with a focus in networking and they have the same principle as the janitor one. Often times bad programmers are bad...
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Well to be fair it depends on the problem, while you should make a point to check the simple stuff first like the stuff on the physical layer, a lot of times the approach to troubleshooting should...
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