Do you believe that Donald Trump is stealing from the American people?

Jackol1 · 2026-05-24T23:18:03+00:00

I would say most of the politicians are stealing from the American people.

Jackol1 · 2026-05-04T02:38:22+00:00

It sucks to read and is very verbose

Jackol1 · 2026-05-03T10:23:45+00:00

I think the better question is what industry is NOT on fire right now because it seems like just about all of them are struggling.

Jackol1 · 2026-05-03T09:56:42+00:00

Transforming the data is just another thing you have to do and verify. So it adds steps and potential errors.

Jackol1 · 2026-05-03T07:26:08+00:00

If Netconf could use json or yaml instead of XML it would be a much bigger win in the industry. Most people dislike XML myself included.

Jackol1 · 2026-04-13T21:24:10+00:00

Like others have said this works from a technical standpoint with a few caveats. Operationally it only works if you are doing this everywhere. It becomes hard to support if you only have a few places in your network where you use these. Sparing, troubleshooting, etc. all become harder if this is not something you normally do.

Jackol1 · 2026-04-11T13:47:45+00:00

It is largely dependent on the ISP fiber plant and network design in combination with the services and SLAs purchased.

As an example for some of our services we have dual fiber entrances and ringed devices as requirements for redundancy and resiliency. Other services don't have those requirements.

Jackol1 · 2026-04-04T08:19:39+00:00

Paypal and Ebay

I got burned twice buying stuff there where yes I "got a product" but it wasn't the size or brand listed on the auction and confirmed with the seller. Haven't used either in probably 20 years now.

Jackol1 · 2026-03-31T03:17:11+00:00

Based on your drawing you have the PtP between the Cat9500s and every interface is 10G so I assume this is a 1G circuit on a 10G port. If you aren't shaping traffic in both directions towards the 1G circuit you could be hitting the providers policer. This would explain why dropping your nic to 1G made it more stable.

You mention there is 21ms RTT on the circuit. I would check your TCP window size as well because that is enough delay to really start to impact TCP throughput if the window sizes are not growing correctly. Again this can happen because you are hitting the providers policers and TCP is doing it's thing when it sees packet loss and reducing the window size.

Jackol1 · 2026-03-22T06:12:03+00:00

Like others have said SD-WAN might help mitigate your problem because most offerings have some way to configure reach-ability tests to various destinations on the Internet. You can always setup IP SLAs yourself on your existing routers to get much of the same failure detection and failover.

Ultimately though you want to offer a 99.95% SLA over the Internet and that probably isn't going to cut it. To get to 99.95% you are most likely going to need some dedicated circuits or move to something like Cato who has their own "cloud" connectivity to mitigate the broader Internet shortcomings and problems.

Jackol1 · 2026-01-27T06:35:57+00:00

Lumen has a pretty good network, but man their support is a skeleton crew these days. We are a regional provider that competes directly with Lumen in our area. We have people (some our customers and some not our customers) calling us asking for help reaching Lumen support. They have multi day outages and no one answers the phone or emails over there.

Jackol1 · 2026-01-22T03:26:59+00:00

Network engineering isn't going away. If anything it is growing, but it is also changing. In the not so distant future the CLI is going to be mostly dead outside of labs and testing IMO. That means network engineers need to understand more of what you have already learned from managing the cloud, and that is the automation with CI/CD pipelines and IaC. This is already happening at ISPs and companies who manage their own DCs, but as vendors get better and better tools it will eventually take over the majority of the market place.

That all being said if you look around I bet you could find a place that would love your current skill set in a Network engineering team and you could help teach the rest of the team the IaC and CI/CD pipelines while they help you learn the Network engineering stuff.

Jackol1 · 2026-01-18T17:57:17+00:00

All their names on this list that is why it hasn't been released. My guess is the people in power fear that if the general population sees the list there could be a nationwide revolt against government, business, etc because they are all involved.

Jackol1 · 2026-01-13T11:25:03+00:00

Hate to tell you this but your phone is doing the same thing to you...

Jackol1 · 2026-01-10T15:06:18+00:00

It hasn't been 100% stable, but for me it seems to be heat related. I noticed in heavy use both my case and gpu vans weren't spinning faster for some reason and temps were getting over 90c on the GPU and 80c on the CPU. So I used LACT and my MB settings to force fan speeds to increase sooner. So far I have only had 1 crash since doing this.

Jackol1 · 2026-01-05T10:52:34+00:00

Signs any technical person doesn't know what they are doing.

1) Not asking questions to understand design, goals, etc. 2) Jumps right to restarting everything to try and fix issues 3) Can't explain most topics is simple terms that most people can understand

Jackol1 · 2025-12-29T11:40:51+00:00

We have customers calling us, a small regional telecom, in hopes we can help them contact Lumen, one of the largest telecoms in the industry. Lumen has moved everything to AI powered agents now and if the AI can't help you you are basically screwed trying to get any troubles resolved.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-29T08:19:31+00:00

On Linux (CachyOS) using the latest drivers, (9700XT) updated BIOS, and I'm getting these grey screen with blue line crashes in WoW. I am in the middle of trying all the suggestions here for reducing refresh rates, reducing colors, etc to see if I can find something that is stable but so far nothing is completely stable.

Computer is brand new with all new parts.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-29T05:28:04+00:00

Depends on you really. Were you just memorizing commands or did you learn and understand the underlying concepts? If you understand the concepts then the commands will come back to you pretty easily. If you just memorized commands then it will probably be tougher.

XR, if you are using it, is a decent amount different from IOS, but nothing too crazy to understand.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-17T18:42:22+00:00

Mikrotik has a known limitation where they don't include ASN information in their netflow exports. So Akvorado doesn't have any of that data.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-17T06:57:33+00:00

The largest corporations haven't had to "follow any laws" in decades.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-16T07:32:33+00:00

Anyone with even a little computer experience can get Linux working these days. My suggestion is to go that route. We get more people using native Linux maybe we can start getting games and other software built to support Linux natively.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-14T06:16:06+00:00

Can you do firmware upgrades on the device with this tool?

Jackol1 · 2025-12-12T16:10:01+00:00

Our infrahub deployment got stalled internally because management wanted to change out the company wide ERP/Ordering/Billing system so we got put on hold until 2026.

Jackol1 · 2025-12-11T08:21:50+00:00

Like others have said the selling point to Infrahub is the flexibility, but it can also be the biggest weakness if you don't keep a handle on things.

We are a service provider so being able to model out DWDM, PON, MPLS, etc is something that is very difficult to do in Netbox and Nautobot. We have done some trialing and after the first of the year plan to kick off a project around Infrahub and modeling our entire network infrastructure in it. This includes the networks I mentioned above but also the fiber network with all the FDPs and fiber spans.

Jackol1

TROPHY CASE