Hardware configuration: a file server has a 10GBE connection to a switch, and a client has four GigE connections to the same switch (bonded). The switch is L3 managed, and has LACP enabled on the ...

In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to fantasize about warmer days ahead. What's even more fun is getting the ...

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for a protocol sets the top limit on how big its packets can be. However, the network devices they pass through, encapsulation, and other factors can complicate ...

Ten years ago, we were in the midst of the controversy over whether frame-based technologies, such as frame relay and IP or cell-based technologies (ATM in particular), would form the foundation of ...