Sam Tannous (CCIE 2464)
Cisco Systems
7025 Kit Creek RD
P.O. Box 14987
RTP, NC 27709
sam dot tannous at gmail dot com

I'm currently a developer working on IPv6, SNMPv3, BFD and GRE, cryptography, digital radio appliances, and various other features in IOS and IOS XR.

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Interests

• Amateur Radio (callsign: KJ4VWG)
  • While working with our elementary school ham radio club, I made some flashcards (10 per page) of the questions for the various tests. The code to generate these flashcards is freely available by request and requires Python and LaTeX (I'd appreciate an email if you find errors or have comments).
    1. Technician Class questions (after July 1, 2010),
    2. General Class questions (after July 1, 2011),
    3. Extra Class questions (after July 1, 2008),
  • It's amazing how far 5 Watts of power will travel with Weak Signal Propagation. Here is an image of an overnight map of my contacts from a couple of days ago.
  • This is a link to some more of K1JT's software designed for weak-signal digital communication by amateur radio.
• Chess
  • Various handouts (some old) for a Scholastic Chess club for elementary school age kids.
  • My opensource python computer chess engine called Shatranj
• Published Papers and Patents
  • S. Tannous, "Avoiding Rotated Bitboards with Direct Lookup," ICGA Journal, vol. 30, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 85-91.
  • U.S. Patent 7,313,600: Arrangement for emulating an unlimited number of IP devices without assignment of IP addresses.
  • U.S. Patent 7,702,764: System and method for testing network protocols.
• Networking Troubleshooting Guides (Cisco centric)
  • 766 FAQ
  • Frame Relay
  • Kerberos V Part I
  • Kerberos V Part II
  • Network Encryption: Part I (11.2)
  • Network Encryption: Part II (11.3T)
• Very Old Freeware Code
  • Gtac
  • Gconfig
  • Gstring