I saw this tweet a while back which pretty well sums up most IT operations in the industry in general and why it needs to change.
A thing SRE has taught me more than previous roles: non-uniformity (of code, infra, process) is expensive.
— Sinjo âđźđ (@ChrisSinjo) April 12, 2017
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I saw a tweet from Jeremy stretch (@packetlife) the other day about showing the ping statistics in linux without stopping the ping command which I had never seen used before (I obviously should have RTFM :P).  After which @jmhuwe and @synteki chimed in with the windows and OSX equivalents as per the below, thanks!
Linux – CTRL + \
Windows – CTRL + Break
OSX – Control + t
by Working on renewing my knowledge of multiple spanning tree, in the lab I have three switches in a triangle topology.  I have configured mst instance 23 and in this instance vlans 100-400 on Switch2 and Switch3, here I have also configured Switch2 as the mst root bridge for instance 0 and 23.
When I issued the show spanning-tree mst command, in the output I can see this odd reference to PVST:
From the above screenshot g0/0 is connected to Switch3 which is also running mst and g0/3 is connected to Switch1 which is not running mst.
After some searching on the internet I found the blog linked below which points out that the above output is simply indicating that g0/3 is a mst boundary port meaning that the switch which is connected to this port (Switch1) is not running mst.
http://i-networks.us/spanning-tree-mst-shr-boundpvst-tree/
Since this is the case Switch2 will generate and send a PVST bpdu on g0/3. Â Note that I have configured mst root primary on Switch2 for both instance 0 and 23.
I also found an article on cisco.com which explains in detail how mst switches inter operate with non mst switches:
PVST Simulation on MST Switches
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