Some of my colleagues appear to think that things like perl are
so arcane that only I can do them. I have offered to do a _really_
basic introduction to perl (and unix shell stuff) tailored to
what my colleagues might possibly use it for, and several people
have expressed an interest.
It has to
On 8 Sep 2002, Adam Atkinson wrote:
Does what I propose seem more useful or dangerous? I think my main
aim is to show useful non-artificial examples as quickly as possible.
Talking about loop structures, scalars vs arrays vs hashes etc. seems
like exactly the wrong way to do.
It seems to
Would the Net:: modules on CPAN be usefull to you? I have found that
most of the examples in there can give you all you tend to
need for day to day network administration. There are tftp
snmp, ftp and other modules for doing basic file transfers.
They will have to understand things like how
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:36:27PM -0400, Derek Samford wrote:
Shane,
There is a practice on that (At least here.). Generally we
provide a Class C to our customers at no additional charge, but we have
Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we
Shane:
I think an important question would be what level of service are they
buying. Including 255 address with a T3 would be very reasonable, less so
with a T1, not very reasonable with DSL, and ridiculous with a dial-up
account.
How is usage need in any way related to circuit size?
At 09:47 PM 9/7/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
Unlike phone calls, TCP traffic doesn't occur in fixed bandwidth
increments. TCP traffic, 90% of Internet traffic, is elastic. By design,
TCP adjusts the traffic rate to keep the bottleneck congested. As the
bottleneck moves, traffic reacts by
Thank Goodness for well-behaved applications, right?
( Misbehaving TCP
stacks and UDP-based apps don't obey these back off
rules. )
You can see lot of intiatives to make things more
TCP friendly to avoid hogging of bandwidth by some
selected applications( mostly multimedia based.) More
