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John Bass

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Recent tests and articles

J. Bass John Bass is technical director for Centennial Networking Labs at North Carolina State University.

CNL is a third-party networking systems test lab focused on delivering technically sound methodology and credible results. CNL is active in testing a range of network server equipment; hosting interoperability events; and doing test development and execution, software development and Internet II development.

Bass recently co-authored his first book with CNL colleague James Robinson III entitled BCMSN: Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks published by The Osborne Media Group, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, and used as a study guide to for network engineers studying for certification on Cisco products.

John has 10 years of experience in the networking industry as a network engineer, consultant, author, and test engineer. In keeping with his surname, John is active in the Research Triangle Park music scene by performing in two local bands and dabbling in the recording arts.

You can reach John at jbass@cnl.ncsu.edu.

Recent tests and articles by John Bass:

Tools cure IP address-management headaches
Dec. 03, 2007
IP address management tools aren't sexy, but they can certainly take the tedium out of the necessary and difficult task of tracking IP addresses and DNS names across an enterprise network.

How we tested IP address-management tools
Dec. 03, 2007
The Proteus/Adonis, VitalQIP, and IPControl product have professional services included in their prices. We scheduled a time for a representative professional engineer to come to our lab and set up their product.

How we tested IBM Linux server
Mar. 05, 2007
We ran three tests to focus on the three main subsystems of the server -- CPU performance, network adapter performance and stack I/O performance.

IBM System p5 510Q Express server stands up strong
Mar. 05, 2007
The IBM System p5 510Q Express is the company's newest entry-level p-system series server. But don't let the entry-level tag turn you off, because this server -- which runs IBM's Unix-based AIX or a variety of Linux ...

Open source Quagga router sets an acceptable pace
Oct. 09, 2006
Open source routing software projects have been receiving attention lately as viable, inexpensive platforms for midlevel routing deployments. But are they practical for enterprise network managers used to the ...

How we tested Quagga router
Oct. 09, 2006
We tested Quagga 0.99.4 on Gentoo Linux (kernel v2.6.15) running on both a Dell 2850 and a Dell 1550.

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