Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Network Engineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election ...
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What exactly is on and off topic?
This has been confusing me for quite some time.
The on/off topic list seems quite clear. As a rough cut, professional networking, network design and protocols on topic, anything related to home ...
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Let's allow network automation questions, such as ansible, Python used to administer routers, etc
I was sad to see a Python question about network automation closed today, but programming questions are always swiftly dealt with. I think this should change to increase good traffic within the NE.SX ...
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tools suggestion for debugging network off topic?
I asked the following questions,
'I have been using wireshark, which is good for debugging layer2 and above. Can anyone recommend a tool for debugging Layer1 or PHY? Does it need to be a logic ...
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Network Engineering is not a welcoming place
This may seem like a click bait title but it's actually not. We all know that Ron is the most actively guy here on this community, but that ended up locking the place as one moderator with an strict ...
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How a question about routing configuration is off-topic here?
I asked this question:
How to filter unused routes in MikroTik routers?
But this question marked as off-topic I wonder how a question about routing and configuring routers at an enterprise-level is ...
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What SE community to ask non-professional Networking Engineering questions?
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Why doesn't SSH from ethernet connected device to wireless device work on local network
TLDR; I'm fine with having my question ...
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Whatever happened to expanding on-topic subjects?
Quite some time ago, a question was posted here asking for opinions on whether our list of acceptable topics should be updated. There were several suggestions that seem to have received support, but ...
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Programming has a home in Enterprise Networking
This stack exchange is not true to the nature of the next generation of network engineers. There are new questions in enterprise networking with regards to automation, orchestration, buzzword and we ...
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What‘s the benefit of labeling so much off-topic here?
I can understand that, since this stackexchange is called Network ENGINEERING, it shouldn‘t be full of questions like „why did my router stop working“.
But given that most of the questions on the meta ...
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Where would 72590 be considered On Topic?
Where would
Autoscan network is not working with two or more NIC's on Windows 7 and 10
be considered "on topic" so I can re-post it in the proper place?
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Another Off-Topic Question?
I hate being stereotypical - but if you dont ask you dont get - and I was pointed here (twice in fact) to contest my question closure. Are there any edits I can make to bring this back into the 'on-...
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Tagging and references for the tag descriptions
Is there guidance on writing / editing tag descriptions for NE-SX?
Today, I noticed some are in need of correction or updates. I would include URLs to resources, like IETF RFCs, vendor concept docs, ...
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My question was closed saying "not business professional" -- but my question pertains to my work
My question was closed saying "not business professional" -- but my question pertains to my work. Our database landscape is in AWS and Azure -- providing federal government projects.
You can ...
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Change Title of the community?
I am new to the network engineering community. Today I have done a very well formatted question and I realized that the community is not related to consumer grade networking products and not even ...
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question about tcp retransmission debug closed saying off-topic
Yesterday I asked this question.
Basically all I wanted to find out was the debug solutions to diagnose problems with tcp resubmission. For example if we want to find out about possible routes we use ...
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My question was closed without an answer but I see other similar questions answered
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: In an IGMP V2 membership report message, isn't the destination Ethernet address based on the multicast group IP address?
What I was ...
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Not allowed to ask a relevant question
I asked what I thought to be a simple question about how to ground shielded twisted pair cables, and it was closed as off-topic without any assistance on re-wording the question to be on-topic, over a ...
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Self-taught networking. How do you get examples?
I'm not sure if this question would be on topic, so I'm asking here first, so it could be answered or re asked on the forum, or just removed.
I've been watching videos and reading about networking. My ...
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router switch functionality/configuration - deemed off topic and closed - I disagree
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Configuring strict port isolation in home network
I am a non networking engineer
looking for functionality advice VPN/VLAN/IPSEC ...
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Yet another closed question based on the word "home" existing
Copper or Glass for Low Latency?
This question was closed within just a few minutes of being asked as off-topic due to it being related to home networking. The OP even indicates that the initial ...
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Question immediately rejected on networkengineering.stackexchange.com for content irrelevant to the question
I don't spend much time on meta. So please give me a chance. I've been referred here by a mod.
I took time to write up a detailed question, for a very specific network related question on auth ...
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I think "ICMP No Reply Found Issue" should have been on-topic
First, let me say no disrespect to Ron here. I just think this is the kind of question that is good for us. We have many questions closed as off-topic (for good reason), but this is the kind I think ...
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Why do people hesitate to upvote questions that they give an answer to?
If somebody answers a question, he must believe that the question is meaningful and contributes to the community. Then why people hesitate to give other people credit for asking questions? I think if ...
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What is the main motivation for top high rating users / moderators on StackExchange to help the community with answering questions?
Is it just the joy of giving back or you're just happy to learn new things while answering questions and figuring out things for others?
I'll appreciate hearing different opinions and views.
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what is the precise scope of questions for "tools used by network professionals" in relations to the strictures on comparisons
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: what is the best way to block and intercept packets between a device and server
Related to the question above but is not a "why was ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Question about debugging an ipsec VPN connection - off topic
I have the following situation: for an ipsec VPN endpoint, I am trying to troubleshoot failing connection and use vpnc tool.
Is a question like this going into more detail of the output offtopic?
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I disgree that this is off-topic; it is about routing and NAT, how to best use them together
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Strange traceroute behavior when using iptables/nat to redirect an IP
I had previously posted this question under Server Fault, ...
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I disagree with the closure of my question
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Does a per-device firewall configuration standard exist or is in the process of being specified?
I disagree with my question being ...
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Stack recommendation
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Subnetting & Routing Path
I'm stuck in trying to learn subnets and thought I'd find some help here, but was told that my ...
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Off topic questions: Stack recommendation
I recently asked a basic networking question that could be considered as off topic for this stack. Fair enough, I get that you're trying to run something that is more tailored to professionals here.
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Would a question on fax compatibility with VOIP dialing protocol be on topic?
Can you let me know whether a question would be on-topic here?
I want to ask a telephony theory question about fax hardware compatibility with the VOIP dialing protocol.
My understanding is that ...
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IPSec is layer 4 or above?
I migrated this question from cryptography - as the acceptance or rejection of packages has usually little to do with cryptography.
Now I can imagine that it gets closed here, but the reason given is ...
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Can you please add more "Why" into the Help centre?
When you're flying and you get the air craft training demonstration, they tell you Help yourself with the air mask before others. It annoys me that they don't say why because you can succum to hypoxia ...
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Expanding on-topic to include advanced features on platforms without paid support
Back in November I opened a meta discussion asking the community for feedback on what they felt needed to be changed to the types of questions the community felt should be on or off topic.
We have ...
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Is a question off-topic, just because it is asked by a student?
In the help section What topics can I ask about here? education, certification and homework are listed as off-topic.
I believe the ban of certification and education questions was meant to cover ...
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Clarification about rejected Flags
I have flag this Question for off topic But It was rejected. But it looks like a off topic because question does not contain any thing about Network engineering.
I flagged because of this point "
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Unabel to ping or ssh from a client to other client in openvpn
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Unabel to ping or ssh from a client to other client in openvpn
Set up an OpenVPN server on VPS(S) I was in need to ssh to office ...
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Disputing duplicate closure
This question - which I will call "Question A" was closed as a duplicate of Question B, but I think it was done too hastily.
Question A asks for a way to find out what user performed the last ...
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Site charter question with regards to "best-practices" tag [edited]
The stated intent of the Network Engineering site is:
Network Engineering Stack Exchange is for asking questions about
professionally managed networks in a business environment.
There is little ...
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What should we have in NE "How to Ask" box?
I am concerned about how unfriendly it seems to new users that we invite them to Ask a Question but don't put helpful information next to them when they do.
It turns out that Stack Exchange has two ...
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Any way to add prominent link to On-Off Topic Guidelines?
Every day we get quite a few questions which are closed almost immediately by our vigilant moderators for being duplicates or off-topic, for example the very common network mask, home network, and ...
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Network Engineering Canonical Questions or FAQ
Our sister site, Server Fault, has a wiki of “canonical questions” that provide comprehensive answers to the most-often asked questions. We decided to create a similar list of questions and answers ...
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Single-vote hold on question
I had a question (Does ARP work in the presence of MAC Masquerading) which got two up-votes and one following-star within two hours of its posting (indicating that people seem to have understood and ...
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Proposal to reopen "Analyze traffic by AS"
A recent question asking for recommendations on analysing traffic by ASN was closed for Resource Request, against topic rules.
Given this is an important non-beginner networking problem, easily ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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What is the meaning of <insert your networking term here>?
A lot of students (and others) ask questions on this site regarding the meaning of many networking terms. Some ask for simple definitions, while others want to know if a term applies in a particular ...