
Nestled in my trusty Sponge Bob Slippers and surrounded by mounds of tissues boxes, cough syrup with Codene, a temperamental foot heater, NetFlix on-demand and business cards of every Chinese restaurant in the neighborhood.....

It seemed such a coincidence, I sent out a teaser for a project underway and alluded to the security implications - the project, however, was not related to the SSL/TLS vulnerability that hit the public last Thursday.How bad is this SSL/TLS vulnerability? Amazingly horrid! Listen Up...

Summit 09 Bonus: All Summit 09 attendees will receive a full licensed copy of NetScanTools Pro - a $249 value.It's not easy going "green"... I mean - all we wanted to do was print the customized course manuals double-sided...

Summit 09 Bonus: All Summit 09 attendees will receive a full licensed copy of NetScanTools Pro - a $249 value.During troubleshooting processes, a standard ping test is often used to check connectivity to a host and determine the round trip latency time...

No... I'm not Microsoft-bashing (today)... not really. After all, this issue is seen on other operating systems as well...

In the WLAN Analysis 101 course last month, I showed the effects of a cheap 2.4GHz phone on the wireless network by knocking myself off the network during my live video feed. Duh.....

Gerald Combs created Ethereal over 11 years ago when his boss wouldn't buy him a brand spanking new Sniffer box - something about budgets and all... so Gerald told his Sniffer rep that he was going to write his own packet sniffing tool...

There are some trace files that SCREAM at you! If you stand too closely you can feel spit hitting your face!In the "Top 10 Reasons Your Network is Slow" online course (course abstract), we examine one of the causes of slow network performance...

Brad Pitt on the cover of wired poo-pooing the bluetooth look? No way! They aren't going pre-announce an invention that I already pre-announced at TechEd?...

"Ping 127.0.0.1 and let's look for packet loss.""Let's reinstall the operating system.""Oh my gawd - didn't you know ping is illegal?""Ping takes away the addresses of others on the network.""Not all laptops support networking, so that might be the problem.""Did you plug in the wireless cable...

The July 7th Wireshark 101 Jumpstart is sponsored by NetOptics. I approached NetOptics because my lab is filled with NetOptics taps... the Teeny Tap, my 10/100 aggregating tap, my 10/100/1000 regenerating tap and more...

It's true... I was laughing out loud today... at packets! This project came out of thin air almost... I was preparing for a podcast with the ChannelWeb group (you can listen to it at http://community.crn.com/docs/DOC-1082)...













