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the off-topic reason changed to it not being "about professionally managed networks in a business environment. " As I explained, that is not the reason. Yes, questions about a telephone network are ...

Was hoping to reply to this earlier, but this is the first chance I have had to finish my answer (so I apologize for what may now overlap Ron's answer as well). Please consider that part of the ...

To be clear, 'network engineering' typically is about designing and configuring networks, not building network devices. Your question is mostly focused on server design/configuration and programming. ...

It is not that I am having a bad day. The decision on what is on- or off-topic here is a community decision. An off-topic question is placed On Hold for a few days to give the author a chance to try ...

For what it's worth I think Ron does a great job keeping the signal-to-noise ratio managed. The reason you see so many closed questions is that there is a lot of noise - a seemingly never-ending ...

First, this is about providing accurate close reasons for questions, that are most likely off-topic anyways. There are only a few close reasons: What do you think should be the close reason for any ...

I would like it if we could move questions to more-relevant Stack Exchanges as an alternative to closing them. I think that might help with user frustration. AFAIK Super User is a good section for ...

If you go to the main page of Network Engineering the majority of the questions are always closed as off-topic. That is because they are off-topic. Should we just ignore the site rules? It was ...

So what SE community should I go to for Networking Engineering questions that don't pertain to "Professionally Managed Networks"? As explained in the comment, Super User is the place to ask ...

This wasn't a question of "how to find certain kinds of packets". UDP is connectionless, so there's no specific type of packet to look for. The "initial" packet is simply the first one you see, and ...