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Rick Cao
Network Engineer

I'm a network engineer with a passion for networking, automation and other things I interest in. This site hosts a bit about me, selected projects, and technical notes.

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Network Endpoint Tracer

Network Endpoint Tracernetwork tools

A tool for quickly finding the physical switch port to which a specific device (identified by its IP or MAC address) is connected.

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Finding an SMTP STARTTLS Failure with TCP Sequence Analysis

Finding an SMTP STARTTLS Failure with TCP Sequence AnalysisNetwork

How dual-segment packet captures, SACK blocks, and cross-path comparison exposed a TLS handshake gap caused by likely MTU/PMTUD issues.

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