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Tracking Latency and Packet Loss with SmokePing

By Matt Schmitz in General Networking on 25 Apr 2017

“The network is slow” – Sound like something you’ve heard before? What does ‘slow’ mean anyway? And is it different from yesterday? Sometimes tracking down network ‘slowness’ can be pretty difficult, especially when you don’t have a good baseline of…

The Argument for Standardized Configurations

By Matt Schmitz in General Networking on 31 Jan 2017

There are quite a few things that you don’t realize how great they are until you don’t have them anymore. For me, one of those things was standard guidelines for device configurations. At my last job, documented standards were extremely important – we had them for…