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The Packet Pushers at Cisco Live US San Diego 2012
Greg Ferro & Ethan Banks will be attending Cisco Live US in San Diego. We've bought our plane tickets. We're on our way. We'll be covering the show, recording podcasts, and we're planning on some tweet-ups. We'll publish more information as we come up with a schedule. Hope to see you … click to read more.
Podcasts
Show 104 – Is SDN a TRILL Killer?
Greg Ferro & Ethan Banks conclude their chat begun in Show 103 – Choking on Cookies, but take the conversation in a different direction. What We Discuss TRILL & SPB – are they competing or complimentary? Or aimed at different markets? If SDN really gets a strong foothold in the marketplace because of excellent applications, [...]
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Show 103 – Choking on Cookies
Podcast hosts Ethan Banks & Greg Ferro have a good old-fashioned chinwag about things that are on their minds in this, the first of a two-part podcast. Part two should be published later during the week of 20-May-2012 as Show 104. Stay tuned! What We Discuss Long-term goals for the Packet Pushers Podcast. How you can [...]
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Show 102 – A Layer of Indirection: Is MPLS Tunneling?
Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks dive into a deep, dark hole of nerdery with Ivan Pepelnjak, Marko Milivojevic, and Petr Lapukov to see if we can decide whether or not MPLS is tunneling. We plumb the depths of packet and frame formatting, compare and contrast various technologies, toss different scenarios around, contradict one another, and throw [...]
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Show 101 – Brocade Virtual Symposium Part 1 – Sponsored
Introducing the Brocade Virtual Symposium. In a special video session, we brought Chip Copper from Brocade into a room to talk about four key areas of Brocade’s Ethernet Fabric. The first episode is this weeks Packet Pushers Podcast. The session is discussing just “What is an Ethernet Fabric” and digging into how Brocade implements their [...]
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Show 100 – Live at Network Field Day Three – Video
Network Field Day Three meant that a lot of regular guests on Packet Pushers were in the same room at the same time. And that room was full of cameras, microphones and a crew to run it!! So we recorded a Packet Pushers Live – the first ever show in video as Show 100.
That’s right – 100 shows! Two years since we started, about 6000 downloads per show and more than 50000 downloads a month.
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Show 99 – I Always Use a VPN – Thomas D’Otreppe – Aircrack-NG – OpenWIPS-NG
This week we are talking to Thomas d’Otreppe, author of Aircrack-NG and OpenWIPS-NG about his Open Source project and what they do ? AirCrack-NG Aircrack “Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some [...]
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Show 98 – The Future of TRILL and Spanning Tree – Part 2
This is the second part of the TRILL and Spanning Tree discussion. TRILL has been on the radar for about three years and while we are seeing some shipping hardware and deployments, it’s still not clear what the current status of TRILL is. This week, Jon Hudson IETF Member for TRILL and Brocade engineer is joined with Andy Shalomon from Cisco, who is conducting testing and deployment on Cisco’s FabricPath for a discussion about where TRILL is today.
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More Podcasts
- Show 97 – The Future of TRILL and Spanning Tree – Part 1
- Show 96 – Hack the Hackers: Fyodor on Nmap & The Security Industry
- Show 95 – Security Onion With Doug Burks -or- Why IDS Rules and IPS Drools
- Show 94 – Aerohive and Bonjour Gateway – Sponsored
- Show 93 – Lies and Routing in the Internet
- Show 92 – HP TippingPoint Secure Virtual Framework With Sanjay Raja – Sponsored
- Show 91 – Packet Party Feb 2012
- Show 90 – Talking Career With Todd Lammle
- Show 89 – OSPF vs IS-IS Smackdown – Where You Can Watch Their Eyes Reload
- Show 88 – Server Internals and Network Performance
Community Blog Posts
Brocade Virtual Symposium – Soft Core and Hard Edges (Sponsored)
The fourth discussion in the Tech Field Day/Packet Pushers Virtual Symposium with Brocade, this video focuses on Ivan Pepelnjak's conception of "hard cores and soft edges" in networking design. Joining Chip Copper, … read more.
Your Firewall Sandwich Gives Me Indigestion
The other day a discussion came up on a security mailing list regarding the proper method for implementing "defense in depth." I was horrified to hear that some thought having two layers of firewalls from different … read more.
Network Ninja Routing Terminology: How to Sound Like You Know What You’re Talking About
Once upon a time, my local security officer was reviewing a proposed firewall rule of mine that included 172.16.9.0/24. His suggestion - something along the lines of "I'd really rather not open this up to an entire … read more.
So You Want to Participate in the IETF…
If you're at the point in your career where you want to "join" the IETF, maybe you need more work to do. (Dear Abbey: Why are my daughters so sarcastic?) But if you really want to help... The first point is that … read more.
Network Complexity: Deep Dive Into the Case of the Femtocell
I suppose I should have expected it, but my tongue in cheek post on my failure to get a Microcell running in my house has generated a number of comments, mostly ideas on troubleshooting. So, if you really want to … read more.
Graphing Nexus CPU and Memory: Here’s the OIDs
I remember when I first wanted to graph this stuff on Nexus...I noticed the Cisco IOS out-of-the-box graph templates wouldn't work. I asked around a little and mostly got "You can't do it," as the answer. I haven't … read more.
Unicorn Crossing – Plugging the Packet Pushers
A quick shout out to Brent Salisbury Brent Salisbury CCIE#11972, Network Architect at University of Kentucky who sent in a presentation that he gave to Dell Network Advisory team which contained this brilliant slide that … read more.
A New Blog Category: Jobs
Here at Packet Pushers, we've gotten requests from recruiters as well as readers and listeners to offer a job listing service. So, we're giving it a try. The idea is this: recruiters trying to find technical talent to … read more.
Am I Just a Digital Sharecropper?
When Ethan Banks recently announced he was ditching Facebook along with some other unnecessary social media accounts, I was a little concerned. He said it was because he was trying to digitally downsize and was uneasy … read more.
HP IMC: Email Alerting
HP’s Intelligent Management Center supports the use of email or SMS for alarm notification. It’s trivial to add a rule to get it to send you an email when a device goes down. But what about if you also want an email … read more.
Another Teaser From the Packet Pushers
We hinted at something coming from the Packet Pushers in an earlier post. Well, here's another hint... Wookieepedia shares with us the following: The prophecy of the Chosen One was an ancient Jedi legend that … read more.
Interop 2012 Round-Up
I usually attend one or two trade shows per year, with Cisco Networkers/Live being the primary focus. That mostly has to do with being a largely Cisco shop, and my own predilections as much as with my general lack of … read more.
More Community Blog Posts
- Network Complexity Bites Back
- Understanding Brocade’s ISLs and ECMP Just a Wee Bit More
- Does TRILL Stand a Chance at Wide Adoption?
- POLL: CCIE Data Center – Who’s In?
- RFC 1998 Implementation Example: BGP Community Attribute in Multi-Home Routing
- Pwn Your Own Network
- When Is a Firewall Like a Speed Bump?
- BGP Origin Authentication: What Are We Trying to Prove?
- Coming Soon From the Packet Pushers
- Infineta and Parallelization, Part 1
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