This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking’s pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles Kao moved later to Hong Kong where he completed his secondary education. He came to the UK to gain a Bachelor of Engineering degree. In…
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Building a Wireshark for CentOS 7
Update: If you’re just keen on grabbing the latest Wireshark, check out the Wireshark on Centos TL;DR version. Or the new version 2.4.0 build documentation. So as part of some of the work I want to look at this year around IoT and the impact on networks, I was looking at some packet traces of…
This one time, when I found two identical MAC addresses…
So, this one time, I discovered two network cards with identical MAC addresses. During 1993, and a network transition from Token-Ring to 10-BaseT Ethernet, I had to deal with a rather unusual issue. The batch of network cards supplied contained two with duplicate MAC addresses burnt into them. Problems occurred with the two PC’s, but…