Podcasts
Show 147 – Avaya Fabric Connect Makes Multicast Simple (Really) – Sponsored
For many network engineers, IP multicast routing is evil. Difficult to design, complicated to implement, painful to troubleshoot and challenging to scale, multicast routing is rarely implemented on a given network unless it’s absolutely required. Most engineers would just rather not bother until the issue is forced upon them. Blame PIM. Blame RPF checks. Blame [...]
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Show 146 – Arista 7500 – One Switch to Rule Them All – Sponsored
Arista is shipping a serious round of upgrades for the 7500 switch chassis. In this sponsored podcast, Doug Gourlay from Arista returns to the Packet Pushers to give an unvarnished view of the new products and why Arista can deliver 100GbE at a new price point while maintaining technical features and capabilities. Show Topics: 1) It’s [...]
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Healthy Paranoia Show 12: The Saga of Terry Childs
Announcing the latest episode of Healthy Paranoia from Mrs. Y featuring the case of Terry Childs, the infamous former Network Administrator arrested for refusing to provide passwords for San Francisco’s FiberWAN system to management. She’s joined by Jeana Pieralde, Chief Security Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, along with two members of the [...]
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Show 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN
A community show where we get Brent Salisbury and Ivan Pepelnjak to talk about the events of the last few weeks. In the end, the only thing we seemed to cover was OpenDaylight, ONS and various SDN topics. Open Networking Summit – Brent reports in. Talking SDN and OpenDaylight Ivan asks “will you install open [...]
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Show 144 – Open EIGRP With Russ White + Cisco’s Donnie Savage
EIGRP is a distance vector routing protocol that for many years was unique to Cisco networking environments. Created and championed by Cisco, it didn’t get any traction in the standards bodies in the early days, because there were already enough interior gateway routing protocols around according to some. EIGRP just didn’t interest enough of the [...]
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More Podcasts
- Show 143 – Anuta Networks Demonstrates nCloudX Controller – Sponsored
- Show 142 – Huawei – End to End SDN Strategy – Sponsored
- Healthy Paranoia Show 11: Bro – The Outer Limits of IDS
- PQ Show 23 – OpenFlow and SDN – ONF Testing & Interoperability With Michael Haugh
- Show 141 – The Pace of Change Is Picking Up – #NFD5 Discussion
- Show 140 – Introduction OpenStack and Quantum Projects
- Show 139 – Making Your Way Down the Path to Nirvana
- Show 138 – HP’s Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and Solution
- Healthy Paranoia Show 10: Beware the Shmoo
- Show 137 – Gartner Is Not for Sale With @Aneel Lakhani
Community Blog Posts
Shopping at the SDN App Store: What Enterprises Really Want?
I contributed 2 pieces to a Network World "digital spotlight" on software defined networking (SDN). SDN's all the rage with marketing teams & the industry media. I've been contracted to write or contribute to a … read more.
Cisco OTV Implementation & Troubleshooting (Legacy Multicast Mode)
For the details on what Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) is and how it works on a high-level, see my previous blog entry about OTV 101. OTV troubleshooting requires a basic understanding of Multicast, as well as … read more.
Cisco OTV 101 (Legacy Multicast Mode): MAC Learning Process Walk
What is OTV? Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) is a Cisco-proprietary protocol suite that allows us to extend Layer 2 between datacenters with Layer 3 boundaries in between. It works by encapsulating the L2 … read more.
Interop: Firewalls, Booth Babes and Unicorn Poop
Now that I've returned from the whirlwind that was Interop Las Vegas, I thought I'd share some thoughts about my experience as a speaker and attendee. First the good: The UBM staff was awesome and I appreciated the … read more.
Book Review: A Primer of Multicast Routing
I was recently in need of a refresher on multicast routing, so I picked up Eric Rosenberg's A Primer of Multicast Routing (Springer Briefs in Computer Science). The overall plan of the book is excellent, starting with a … read more.
How to Turn Your IOS Router Into a Pr0n Server (Pr0n Not Included)
No, really! Did you know that your IOS-based router is capable as acting as a static webserver? Below you will find the steps necessary to turn a GNS/Dynamips box (or any ‘testlab’ machine) into something that can … read more.
Getting the Most Out of SPAN or Mirror Ports
In my previous blog post I looked at the benefits and limitations of SPAN ports. SPAN or mirror ports are a convenient way of getting access to network packets without having to be inline like a firewall. Once you have … read more.
Are You a Fuddy Duddy?
This recent article from IEEE Spectrum discusses our impression that as we age, we lose the ability to learn quickly — fluid intelligence, as it's called. An accompanying chart shows this in some degree through the … read more.
Machine Fragile: More Thoughts
I just ran across a pointer to this research on Bruce Schneier's blog: Networking system components that are well-behaved in separation may create counter-intuitive emergent system behaviors, which are not well-behaved … read more.
VMware VCDX Lab: The Hardware
I have to admit I'm a big VMware fanboy. Wanting to master the art of virtualization, I've set out to build out a personal lab. My primary goal is to work my way up to the VCDX certification. The curious thing about … read more.
More Community Blog Posts
- A Data Center Delivers Apps – So Shouldn’t We Monitor App Delivery?
- Machine Fragile
- It Works and It Should Be Better
- Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Preparation
- What the Heck Is F5 Networks’ TMOS?
- Cisco Nexus – Port “Inactive” Status
- Fighting Stale Documentation
- CCIE Security v4 Reading List – Update From the Program Manager
- Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Why Bother?
- Upgrading F5 BIGIP HA Pair From v10 to V11 – Ethan’s Notes
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