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News - Cisco Announces EOL Schedule for 6500s

This is a surprise, but Cisco has announced the end of life of the 6500 switches that we all know and love. Usually Cisco gives a platform a few more years after they decide to retire it, but the schedule only gives the 6500s one more year of service. I’

Configuring an IPv6 Tunnel with Hurricane Electric

My ISP at home is great. I have infinite bandwidth because they have no idea how to do any rate limiting. Heck, they’re not even skilled enough to know that I have several public IP addresses from their DHCP server. That means, though, that they’re not ready for

Stubby Post - I'm Unemployed...Until Monday

Today was my last day at the office, and I start a new job and adventure on Monday. What does that mean for the blog? The biggest impact is the fact that I won’t have access to a CSM or FSWM any more. These are two pretty unique devices,

Stubby Post - Final Tally of 3750 Failures

It’s pretty widely known that I hate Cisco 3750 switches. We’ve had so many hardware and software failures with them that I’ve got a seriously bad taste in my mouth. Since I’m leaving for a new company, I thought I’d publish some statistics while I

Stubby Post - I've Taken a New Job

After several months of semi-serious job searching, I’ve landed a new position with a local company. I don’t know how much I should reveal about them, but I’m really excited to be joining their team. I’ll pass on more details as I get a feel for

I've Been Violated...Again

I noticed a few weeks back that my blog article titles were showing up in my RSS feed as ads for cheap prescriptions. Not good. I changed all my passwords, made sure I was at the latest version of WordPress (I was), and disabled all my unneeded plugins. The RSS

Stubby Post - Cisco IOS Petition

Greg Ferro has brought back the petition for Cisco to provide an emulator to the community for learning. Since our current and only family of emulators is well on Garcinia Mangostana its way to oblivion, I ask that we all take the time and sign this petition. To use a