SSH is more than just a shell. You can copy files from and to a server or piece of network gear with it. You can use it to tunnel traffic. Possibly my favorite, though, is to use SSH to run a command on a remote box without interacting with a shell. One of my...
Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Most Random Things Can Hurt The Network
This is a great one that I have to share. A couple of coworkers walk in today and ask for some help on an issue. It seems that a business unit was having latency problems with a web app, and, after research by the product team and sysadmins, nothing wrong could be found. Lots...
Server NIC Aggregation to a Cisco Switch
Have you even noticed that your new servers all have 2 NICs on the board? At least all of them that I’ve seen in the last 3 years have. A lot of server admin actually use them in a NIC teaming scenario where both NICs are used as one logical device — much the...
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