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Network Engineering is not a welcoming place

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 ...
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I have a question about *engineering* the *network* device. Where can I ask the question if not in here?

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 ...
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I have a question about *engineering* the *network* device. Where can I ask the question if not in here?

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. ...
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I have a question about *engineering* the *network* device. Where can I ask the question if not in here?

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 ...
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I disagree with my question being put on hold for being off-topic

You forgot the one caveat: "under your direct control (if the network is not under your control you will not likely be able to provide the information required to answer your question)." Also, the ...
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My Question about DHCP over VPNs was put on hold for being off topic, but it's on topic

I reopened your question after your edits. You have a couple of misconceptions: Can we agree that VPNs aren't really used in home networking? (You know besides Network Engineers practicing for ...
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Network Engineering is not a welcoming place

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 ...
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Network Engineering is not a welcoming place

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 ...
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my question is about strange behaviour in a juniper srx 340.. that is not a consumer device

The question is not about a host configuration, but why the SRX won't learn a MAC for the secondary address(es). Get past the word linux, already.
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