Network Engineering

CHICAGO, IL 23-Jan-2022 Storage engineer Damian Rothgar reported “bewilderment and perplexing feelings” about a recent networking meet-up in his local Chicago community. “No one really welcomed me in, they all seemed really confused as to why I was there” he stated. “I mean, storage networks are just like any other network”, Damian said, confused. “You can totally run IP over Infiniband, and fiber channel has so many similarities it’s not even funny!...

AKRON, OH 19-Jan-2022 Engineers actively participating in the NANOG email list had a rare breakthrough on a major problem plaguing nearly no one on Wednesday evening. After a hearty debate and several days of pedantic, tangentially and often unrelated back and forth, Torg Bromlington announced that although he had no real stake in the issue and does not run any networking at scale, that he deemed the issue “resolved, thank you”....

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, CISCO SYSTEMS INC 25-Dec-2021 After only 22 years of service, a 6509 chassis deployed at a customer location has reportedly reached its final end of life. Taken from us in its prime, lon1-gandalf01, known simply as “Gandalf” by those close to it, put in its final notice after the power outage at Interexion’s LON1 facility killed off the last working PSU. Network Engineer Rich Ikhanda, the technician tasked with placing gandalf into its final resting box, stated “it’s a real shame to see this router taken out of service while it still had its youth....