About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus

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 … [Read more...]

Unicorn Crossing – Plugging the Packet Pushers

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A quick shout out to Brent Salisbury Brent Salisbury CCIE#11972, Network Architect at University of Kentucky who sent in a … [Read more...]

Show 101 – Brocade Virtual Symposium Part 1 – Sponsored

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Introducing the Brocade Virtual Symposium. In a special video session, we brought Chip Copper from Brocade into a room to … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

Show 99 – I Always Use a VPN – Thomas D’Otreppe – Aircrack-NG – OpenWIPS-NG

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This week we are talking to Thomas d'Otreppe, author of Aircrack-NG and OpenWIPS-NG about his Open Source project and what … [Read more...]

Show 98 – The Future of TRILL and Spanning Tree – Part 2

TRILL has been on the radar for about three years and while we are seeing some shipping hardware and deployments, it's still … [Read more...]

Show 97 – The Future of TRILL and Spanning Tree – Part 1

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TRILL has been on the radar for about three years and while we are seeing some shipping hardware and early deployments, it's … [Read more...]

Show 94 – Aerohive and Bonjour Gateway – Sponsored

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Aerohive has recently announced Bonjour support for networking. If you aren’t familiar with Bonjour it’s the zero … [Read more...]

Show 93 – Lies and Routing in the Internet

This show is few moments to breathe, take stock, and meditate about peace in our time and listen to someone else do the … [Read more...]

Show 91 – Packet Party Feb 2012

Packet Pushers had a Packet Party in Feb 17, 2012 with an Open Microphonr. The Packet Party was recorded live from … [Read more...]

Show 89 – OSPF vs IS-IS Smackdown – Where You Can Watch Their Eyes Reload

In this show we discuss the the differences between OSPF & IS-IS routing protocols and the differences between … [Read more...]

A Packet Party – This Friday 17 Feb – Join Us

Packet Pushers are hosting a Packet Party.   Anyone can come along to listen to a live discussed - it will be … [Read more...]

Show 88 – Server Internals and Network Performance

Having met at VMworld 2010, Daniel Bowers and I were having an ongoing discussion around server architectures and how they … [Read more...]

Packet Pushers Webinar on SDN & OpenFlow – Sponsored by Big Switch – Open Attendance

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I'm pleased to announce that Big Switch have agreed to sponsor SDN & OpenFlow Webinar on February 7th, 2012 and that the … [Read more...]

Show 85 – Sponsored – The Span Port You Always Wanted – Gigamon

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In this Sponsored show we talk to Gigamon about " making the SPAN port what it always wanted to be". In short, Gigamon makes … [Read more...]