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Possible duplicate question on a different StackExchange site?

What is the right way to proceed in this case? Answer the question on NE Shall we mark the new question as a duplicate? Duplicates only matter within a specific site on SE. If the question …
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Iperf and/or network throughput questions

Regarding iperf questions Your your argument seems to go along these lines: Because many iperf questions have fundamental misunderstandings, and answers are provided by unqualified people we shou …
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How do I connect with a computer in a network sharing the same IP

Regardless of whether the user is at home or at work... Quoting the help center, on / off topic link... Note: All questions about RESIDENTIAL/HOME networking and CONSUMER-grade equipment, are exp …
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Are questions related to TCL code on topic?

"How to do this with TCL?" or "How to improve this TCL code?" Of course I'm referring to the Cisco devices and EEM. Assuming all are on a Cisco router (or some other on-topic platform)... these …
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Meet us at Cisco Live 2014

Answering my own question. We met today at Cisco Live.
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Network Engineering Community Plagiarism Responsibilities

The community should not regularly attribute posts for others; doing so enables continued plagiarism and places the burden of finding / remediation on the community. It is the author's responsibilit …
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Why was my "ISP speed calcuation" question closed?

I would like to know how do we calculate the actual bandwidth requirement for a small office (30 users) If all the information I had was in your question, I would say between 5Mbps to 10Mbps (sym …
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Come back to the question below: tunnel and VPN

Is tunnel a shortcut connection in internet? I read that tunnel is like protective cover for data. How this protective cover is created. What is this protective mean? Is it like Encryption? There …
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Being a more open community?

Summarizing and paraphrasing your questions: Should this stack be welcoming to strangers? We should be respectful to everyone, and to the degree that we're not enabling help vampires, we should …
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Community input on T-ball questions: Encourage or Discourage them?

Allow but do not encourage T-Ball questions There is a difference between encourage and allow. We should allow but not encourage T-Ball questions. Network Engineering is for professional network en …
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Are design questions about "network services" such as DNS on topic?

Summary: I see a strong case for saying generic DNS questions are off topic Details: I can see YLearn's point about DNS skillset overlap between system admins and network engineers; however, DNS Ser …
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Correct procedure for inadvertant privacy breach?

Two ways of handling this... 1) As of 2016, Moderators have the power to redact content from a post. 2) Moderators can go to the Teachers Lounge chat room and ask the SE team to purge the privacy is …
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tools suggestion for debugging network off topic?

FWIW you can ask for software suggestions on Software Recommendations
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Why Are Questions about Virtual Networking Appliances "Off Topic"

Per the Help Center link, Zentyal specifically would seemingly be a “Prosumer” Product as it fits every criterion Admittedly I have to make a judgment call in this case, but you’re stretching thi …
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Regarding questions about Cisco IOU (and other pirated software)

If you disagree, that sounds like a discussion for another day. If you want to delete your account, you can do so by following the help center links: help center > How do I delete my account? … EDIT: After the initial discussion in meta, I reworded your question to focus on ioulive86, which is not Cisco IOU; however, I left the question deleted since the only valid use case is pirated software …
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