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Sean
An interesting thing happened last week that illustrates how understanding the behaviour of a packet travelling through a network explains the cause of some rather odd traffic patterns.
It was noticed that all active ports on a certain switch would simultaneously see traffic spikes in excess of 8Mbit/s, even though these ports were normally dormant. [...]
