Old Computer Fails to Discover SSID nor Connect to Home Network [Solved]

A new Comcast xFi Gateway caused issues with older wireless devices. Here’s how to troubleshoot

March 4, 2021 · 4 min · 641 words · Nicole Henry

Autonegotiation issues on Nexus QSFP Ports

Interoperability issues between Nexus QSFP modules can cause autonegotiation to fail

February 20, 2018 · 3 min · 455 words · Matt Schmitz

Devil in the Defaults

It’s always the simple details that come back to haunt us…

October 3, 2017 · 5 min · 999 words · Matt Schmitz

SRX High CPU: httpd

How to manage stuck httpd sessions that are causing 100% CPU utilization

September 5, 2017 · 4 min · 830 words · Matt Schmitz

Odd Behavior of Protected Switchports

Some thoughts on an interesting issue I ran into with older Cisco switches & protected port configuration

August 22, 2017 · 4 min · 700 words · Matt Schmitz

Tracking Latency and Packet Loss with SmokePing

Why should you use SmokePing - and a quick look at how to interpret the graphs it generates

April 25, 2017 · 5 min · 1064 words · Matt Schmitz

Juniper SRX VPN Issues

After running IPSec VPNs on Juniper SRX for years, this post explores some of the common issues I’ve run into

April 18, 2017 · 7 min · 1405 words · Matt Schmitz