About Ethan Banks

Ethan is a network engineer, blogger, editor, freelance writer, and CCIE #20655. He's also a host on the Packet Pushers podcast, an independent show covering the data networking industry. Find most of his content at PacketPushers.net. He also contributes to CCIE Flyer & Tech Target. Follow him on Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn.

Show 87 – A SIP of Voice

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The Packet Pushers voice crew reassembles, this time for a discussion of SIP trunks. Erik Peterson, Amy Arnold and Tom … [Read more...]

Good Habits for Basic Ethernet Switchport Provisioning in a Cisco IOS Environment

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An opening remark on this blog post that has grown to roughly 3,500 words is that it becomes impossible to cover every … [Read more...]

Understanding When a Cisco ASA NAT Rule Can Override the ASA Routing Table

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Thanks to @bobmccouch who responded multiple times to my frustrated tweeting about Cisco ASA packet forwarding weirdness … [Read more...]

Show 86 – Connect to the IPv6 Internet for Free Using TunnelBroker.Net

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Hurricane Electric's Owen DeLong joins Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to discuss TunnelBroker.net. What's TunnelBroker.net? It's … [Read more...]

Why Salespeople Sell to Others in Your Organization but Not You

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Have you noticed that after a few years with an employer that salespeople sort of stop calling you? And by "you", I mean the … [Read more...]

Video Is Not the New Voice

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I spent some time last week with a networking vendor who demonstrated to us their voice system. Only it wasn't about phones. … [Read more...]

Show 84 – Cisco WAAS – The Sleeping Giant Awakens – Sponsored

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Liad Ofek from the Cisco Borderless team joins Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to discuss the state of Cisco Wide Area Application … [Read more...]

Successfully Managing Talented Technical People

I'm no management guru. I'm no psychiatrist. I don't even think I'm the geek whisperer. I am a technical person who's had a … [Read more...]

My Utopian Daydreams for 2012

Wouldn't the world be perfect if... QoS schemes were a global standard? Now, you can point to recommended best practices, … [Read more...]

On Originality: More Art Than Science

One of the reasons I don't hang out much on Facebook or Google Plus is that the information stream is mostly a repeated … [Read more...]

Why Becoming a CCIE Doesn’t Fix Being Inexperienced

One of the challenges future network rock stars face is that they don't know what they don't know. This is a cold, unyielding … [Read more...]

How to Land Your First Job Herding Packets

This question came in from the Twitterverse a couple of weeks ago. "If you had to give one piece of advice for somebody … [Read more...]

Join the Packet Pushers Podcast LinkedIn Group

If you're active on LinkedIn, you might like to join the Packet Pushers Podcast LinkedIn group. We're glad to have you join … [Read more...]

Show 77 – Cisco Nexus 1000V and VXLAN With Han Yang and Victor Moreno – Sponsored

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This time Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks chat with Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers Han Yang and Victor Moreno to discuss … [Read more...]

Cisco ASA 8.3+8.4 Hairpinning NAT Configuration

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I ran into an issue over the weekend where a VPN client was unable to access a remote office connected via an L2L tunnel … [Read more...]