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The Network Behind the Network

Oxide and Friends

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How to Configure a Switch on Your Own

After a lot of grinding we finally had all of the different ports and protocols and Fy's working And I started doing some higher level tooling So this is a picture of the monorail status subcommand which you can run on the hardware. It will tell you every single port in the system whether it's up or down How fast it is whether if there's a Fy attached whether the Fy is up or down. The Mac tables are essentially ground truth for what packets the switch has seen Whenever a packet goes into a port on the switch It looks at the Mac address and then it uses that if you try to send packets to that Mac address in the future.

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