Getting Ready for Christmas

Great shots of Christmas parties and Christmas eve.

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Halloween and Paris Photos

Lots of new photos to share:

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My job:
Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS testing) require constant testing in order to verify the device is working properly. Every new software upgrade and/or signature set completely changes the way an IPS will perform in your network. In all cases, the data derived from any test must be objective, qualitative, and consistent.

A new generation of content-aware network equipment has forced testing to move up the stack to more realistic Layer 4-7 IPS testing. You simply cannot rely on the same tools and methodologies once used to test routers and switches for IPS testing.
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Fun Weekend in Salado

Had fun with the girls in Salado. Captured this great pic of Alina swimming.

From SaladoSept08

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More Fashionista Action

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Shots from Aruba

Better late than never, here are a bunch of photos from Aruba. ">

The girls really love the gift baskets the Flahartys gave us! Thanks

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New Event

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layer 4-7 testing

BreakingPoint Elite provides comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing for network equipment and application servers in a high-performance and easy-to-use product. Unlike legacy testing tools that are designed for HTTP-only test environments and struggle to generate realistic Layer 4-7 traffic for testing content aware devices, BreakingPoint provides authentic application traffic blended with live security attacks at speeds of 20 Gigabits per second and faster More on layer 4-7 testing and testing tools.BreakingPoint testing tools accelerate the development of next-generation content-aware network devices by focusing on application, performance, and security testing.

We hold the number one slot for the term “testing content aware devices” but Google optimizes YouTube much faster and with what seems far greater relevance.

Deep Packet Inspection testing

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Yaya Gets a New Dress Too

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Practicing with My New Camera

Happy news for the family. I just bought a fabulous new camera. Here are some examples of the quality.

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Quick Trip to Dallas

The family made a great short trip to Dallas to the Great Wolf Lodge, the Galleria and the American Girl Bistro where we took this photo: >

The Mickelson Christmas 2007

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Austin Holiday Lights

My company, NetQoS, has built and posted a handy Google maps mashup of Austin holiday lights.

Writing about work: NetFlow Monitoring

Posted this story about Cyber Monday shopping to Network Performance Daily.

"The good news is, it’s not too late to mitigate the risks associated with the upcoming Super Bowl blitz that we wrote about on the Network Performance Daily blog last year. By putting your network monitoring tools to good use now, you can examine exactly how your network performs when a large spike in traffic occurs - so that you know what to do to be ready for the next spike in traffic when it occurs. Specifically, NetQoS advises network engineers to take action now to:

analyze network traffic flows with to identify recreational network traffic
quantify its impact on network performance
and implement quality of service policies to ensure business-critical applications have priority access to network resources
Admittedly, this is not the trickiest of problems to solve. You just need the right tools. As we detail in this best practices white paper on most of this online traffic is fairly easy to identify and measure if you are using NetFlow and a NetFlow monitoring NetFlow Monitoring product like NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer to analyze traffic. It’s also, in most cases, predictable – you know that every Monday after Thanksgiving, there will be a higher volume of Internet traffic. You know that the Super Bowl and March Madness will also have an impact. But do you know how much of an impact and how to prevent it from impacting application performance for those workers who are actually working? Do you know what you will need to do to mitigate risks?
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Alina's Soccer Team Takes the Championship

Here's the scrapbook I made to celebrate Alina's Soccer Championship.

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Soccer Princess.

Alina in Cheetah Girl Video

Alina is in the video coverage of Sabrina (Cheetah Girls) at Steiner Ranch elementary. Check it out at kvue.com.