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If you've stumbled on this post, chances are that you might already be familiar with OSPF and/or IS-IS as the two most common link state routing protocols in use today. Unlike traditional distance-vector routing protocols, routers running link state routing protocols populate a link state database of the entire …
Originally ratified in the IEEE 802.1D standard, spanning-tree protocol (STP) is used ubiquitously throughout enterprise networks to prevent layer 2 network loops. With STP, traffic on physically redundant paths between bridges (or switches today) is blocked to form a logical loop-free topology. It's a fundamental technology all network professional …
I recently migrated to a new NAS for my home network and planned to add an extra 3TB drive to the RAID array. There was only one problem: the drive had some files on it from an old computer which I wasn't sure was backed up. I was anxious to …
Best practice and common sense tells us that we should always avoid running commands and services as root whenever possible. Sound good, but how do we do that in Docker containers? Unfortunately, there isn't a single standard way to do it. Docker leaves it up to each image developer and …