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Mike Pennington
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How do you calculate the prefix, network, subnet, and host numbers?
Mar 31, 2014
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Why is such a large IPv4 range assigned to localhost?
Aug 16, 2013
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Why must all areas connect to an Area 0 backbone in OSPF?
Feb 18, 2014
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Using SNMP to retrieve the ARP and mac-address tables from a switch
Aug 21, 2013
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How to check for a valid public IP address?
Jul 10, 2013
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Bits per second vs. Packets per second
Sep 7, 2013
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Why was the MTU size for ethernet frames calculated as 1500 bytes?
Aug 24, 2013
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Why do we still use Ethernet?
Sep 7, 2013
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Why use iBGP inside an Autonomous System, if IGP protocols fulfill the need for internal communication
Nov 9, 2013
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Does physical distance affect download speed?
Jul 11, 2013

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What is the difference between README and README.md in GitHub projects?
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Multiprocessing - Pipe vs Queue
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How to use multiprocessing queue in Python?
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How to set virtualenv for a crontab?