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Bridging Bytes & Spanning Solutions: Adventures in Network Engineering

Some occasional thoughts on IT – primarily networking, virtualization, and security with a sprinkling of projects I may be working on. I may also post some random ideas or thoughts about some of my hobbies and interests from time to time for fun.

Barracuda Networks ESS Internal Mail Routing

I ran into an email delivery issue the other day that seems likely to come up here and there. My customer could receive email inbound from a domain of a vendor they do business with, but suddenly could no longer send messages to them outbound. All I had to go on was...

Etherchannel/LAG Dell VRTX & Cisco Catalyst Switch

If you read my previous Kaboom post, you may be wondering why I decided to post on another Dell VRTX. Well, the fact is I’ve still got a few of these out in the field, so they remain relevant to me. This is a another customer’s deployment and I just upgraded them from...

Quotes

Fortune

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

– P.T. Barnum

Education

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

– Mark Twain

Excess

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

– Mark Twain

War

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

– George Washington

Time

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

– John Wooden

Responsibility

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke

Winning

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog

– Mark Twain

Wisdom

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

– Alexander Pope

Forgiveness

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

– Alexander Pope

Learning

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

– Benjamin Franklin

Socialism

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
– Margaret Thatcher

Technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– Arthur C. Clarke