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Site graduated! New design launched
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
If you see any CSS/styling bugs, please ...
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Rejecting a lot of tag wikis: A clarification
I've had to reject a lot of the suggested edits for tag wiki excerpts, probably leaving a lot of people wondering why.
The most common problem I've see is tag descriptions that simply define the word ...
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Our set of tags
Well chosen tags improve the experience of the site regarding browsing and searching. If we would create some guidelines regarding tag names, we could get more consistent tags and avoid creating too ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
Network Engineering's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
They've replaced the pro-tempore crew* — please thank both teams ...
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Moderator Election - We need more candidates!
In about 5 hours, the nomination phase of the moderator elections is scheduled to end. However, in order for the election to proceed, it is necessary to have at least one more candidate running than ...
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IPv6 access to Net Eng Stack Exchange (Or any other SE site for that matter)
Is there a roadmap from the SE staff to get native IPv6 access to networkengineering.stackexchange.com? Or as the title says, to any Stack Exchange site?
I've found several questions over on the ...
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Moderators Pro Tempore - now served late!
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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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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Could we get more options added to "This question belongs on another SE site"
If you vote to close a question because it is off topic at Network Engineering SE, but on topic elsewhere, there isn't really a built in consistent way of indicating where that question should have ...
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Ad for Network Engineering is broken in the sidebar of another Stack
I spotted what looks like a broken ad for Network Engineering in the sidebar of Science-Fiction and Fantasy:
If I inspect the underlying HTML, this is what I find:
<div id="SE20-ad-container" ...
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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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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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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Network Engineering's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for ...
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Right place for network automation questions?
I'm starting to get into network automation, specifically Python and Ansible with Cisco gear.
Is this the right group for these types of questions or is there a better one? The questions I can think ...
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Winter Hats Are Coming Soon!
We'll do this again, as we've done in previous years.
The Details
This year's event will start on 14 December 2015 and run up to and
including 03 January 2016. Users will be able to see all ...
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An indicator showing when there are items one can review?
(or remind me on which other meta site I should ask this...)
Would be great if the little 'review' link had some indicator when there were items for review. As it is, we have to click the review link....
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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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SE Feature Req: Can we edit our "too broad" close message?
Background
We do not want to have to add comments when closing things. (It slows us down.)
We've already had a discussion about adding an additional close reason for "not enough details". This ...
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Recent (help/on-topic) Facelift
To date, we've had some unpleasant Help Center markdown in help/on-topic; if I was a newbie, I wouldn't want to read it.
Before:
We had
Bare ALL CAPS headings
Ugly pastel quote blocks
Added ...
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100% networking-related question put on hold as off-topic
This is a reopen request for this question, which was put on hold as off-topic for being configuration-related. I've provided quotes from the help center that contradict this decision, however the ...
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2021: 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 preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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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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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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(solved) Help Center is busted?
On https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic, I see:
What topics can I ask about here?
Find out the distribution they run (for example, Ubuntu) and focus on that first. Use ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election
The 2016 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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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 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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Cleaning up posts only referring to dead links
Can we please regulate our behavior whenever we encounter useless comments or answers? I am not discussing external references. I simply want to know what I can do to get a post removed which does not ...
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NetworkEngineering syntax highlighting
Please turn on syntax highlighting on NetworkEngineering.SE so questions like these are more readable...
Discussion about Python OpenFlow Controller
answer which requires TCL code
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Why I can't I upload a png or jpg image?
Here on the meta site, I posted an answer to: Name for the chatroom.
When tried to upload an image, using the Internet Explorer 8, I got, both for png and jpg format, the error message:
Failed to ...
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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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Why was my answer deleted by a moderator?
Today, I thought to have found an answer to a question asked by myself.
(IPv6 subnets without delegated prefix)
Unfortunately, it was deleted by a moderator and no one can see that answer (nor can ...
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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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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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Network Engineering updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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About DHCP behavior?
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: What ports does DHCP typically use other than 67 & 68
Hello,
Could you give more reasons why asking more details about the ...
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Question put on hold
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Linux VRF and Multicast IP
I don't believe that this is off-topic, this is not about host/server configuration.
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Alternatives to the "paid support" requirement
My question got closed by Ron Maupin with the justification that it contained the Mikrotik tag (the question was on-topic). The justification was that Mikrotik doesn't offer paid support, which is ...
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Commenting on off-topic questions
When marking a question off-topic, may I recommend that you politely direct the OP to the correct stack exchange? Saying something like
Home networking is off topic here. You can ask this on ...
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Where should I ask BSS/OSS questions (most programming) regarding telecommunication?
I am a developer building BSS/OSS software. I have some questions regarding how to fit my software into industry standard.
I am wondering where should I ask those questions?
The questions will be ...
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"Community Bulleting Board" went away?
Did I miss a memo? :) Did the "Community Bulleting Board" feature -- the colored block that used to show things we[moderators] tagged with a certain tag -- go away? We used to have the "asking ...
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EIGRP vs OSPF: Opinion Based?
Is the question EIGRP vs OSPF primarily opinion based, (or at the very least, far too broad for this format), and therefore subject to closure?
The question in question:
EIGRP and OSPF are both ...
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Network layer protocol research questions off-topic?
The help page states that questions on
design or theory of protocols used to operate a network (e.g. IP, TCP,
routing protocols, STP, etc);
however when I tried to ask about how to analyze and ...
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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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Assistance with asking: What is the internet backbone?
Disclaimer - I know this question is vague. Please read till the end.
What is the tier structure of internet connections (the physical trunk lines) ?
Which companies/organizations/governments ...
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What tools used by Network Engineers on-topic
Are common tools used by network engineers on-topic. Specifically referencing post “Monitor http traffic in Mac OSX”.
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Why is a question about a network switch off topic?
I have a question about my Network Engineering Stack Exchange post: Removing a non-running device from a network switch breaks Windows file sharing
I’m confused why this question is considered off ...
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2022: 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 preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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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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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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A user can't access this per-site meta due to an issue with their account; their migrated post wasn't attached despite them having an account here
(I'm coming here from Meta Stack Exchange. I'm here because one of your users attempted to ask about one of their problems over on that site, where it was first marked off-topic as a site-specific ...
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