New to networking? Or maybe just new to Packet Pushers? Want to know which shows will help you build a foundation? Here you go. These shows cover major networking concepts, take on emerging technologies, and provide context for what we might talk about in other shows.
Have a listen!
Data Center Fabrics
Weekly 5 – Deep Diving on Data Centre Switching
Weekly 7 – Hiding In Plain Sight – Enterprise MPLS
Weekly 16 – Big Hot & Heavy Switches – Part 1
Weekly 17 – Big Hot & Heavy Switches – Part 2
Weekly 38 – Comparing Data Centre Fabrics from Juniper, Brocade and Cisco
Weekly 44 – The Case for Shortest Path Bridging
Weekly 66 – VXLAN & NVGRE with Ken Duda
Weekly 54 – Speaking with a LISP Expert – Cisco’s Victor Moreno
Weekly 97 – The Future of TRILL & Spanning Tree – Part 1
Weekly 98 – The Future of TRILL & Spanning Tree – Part 2
Weekly 169 – Cisco FabricPath Deep Dive – Part 1
Weekly 171 – Cisco FabricPath Deep Dive – Part 2
Weekly 210 – SPB Implementation Fundamentals
Show 284: Design & Build 10: Data Center Fabric
Show 340: OpenFlow, Fabrics & Network Virtualization
Datanauts 011: Understanding Leaf-Spine Networks
IPv6
Weekly 21 – IPv6 for the Win! – Part 1
Weekly 21 – IPv6 for the Win! – Part 2
Show 86 – Connect To The IPv6 Internet For Free Using TunnelBroker.net
Weekly 244 – Dual Stack IPv4 & IPv6
PQ Show 54 – IPv6 Adoption Trends With Alain Fiocco
Datanauts 006 – Assessing IPv6 Readiness
SDN, NFV, & OpenFlow
Weekly 40 – Openflow – Upending The Network Industry
Weekly 68 – Practical Introduction And Application Of OpenFlow Networking
Weekly 76 – Why OpenFlow Has Mind-Melting Potential
Weekly 112 – SDN’s Potential As A Displacement Technology With Jeff Doyle & Bill Koss
Weekly 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN
Weekly 148 – Talking With OpenDaylight Leadership
Weekly 164 – Cool Or Hot? Lapukhov + Nkposong’s BGP SDN
Show 194 – SDN Northbound Interfaces with Sarwar Raza + Colin Dixon
Weekly 203 – SDN Policy + Congress With Martin Casado & Tim Hinrichs
Weekly 220 – OpenFlow + Table Type Patterns With Curt Beckmann
Show 291: What Is SDN In 2016? – Recorded Live
Show 335: A Deep Dive Into NFV
Priority Queue 44 – The OPNFV Project With Margaret Chiosi
Priority Queue 50 – Network Service Header (NSH) Deep Dive & Use Cases
Routing
Weekly 89 – OSPF vs IS-IS Smackdown – Where You Can Watch Their Eyes Reload
Weekly 102 – A Layer Of Indirection: Is MPLS Tunneling?
Weekly 134 – OSPF Design Part 1 – Debunking The Multiple Area Myth
Weekly 218 – OSPF Design Part 2 – The Case for Areas
Weekly 144 – Open EIGRP With Russ White + Cisco’s Donnie Savage
Weekly 196 – EVPN Introduction & Use-Cases With Russ White + Jeff Tantsura
Weekly 252 – BGP In The Data Center
Show 285: IETF Routing Area Update
Show 286: Busting Anycast TCP Myths
Show 302: BGP – The Most Successful Virus?
PQ 58: Alibi Routing With UMD’s Dave Levin
PQ Show 89: Implementing EVPN for Enterprise DCI
PQ Show 109: A Look Inside DMEVPN
PQ Show 112: Free Range Routing At IETF 98
PQ Show 115: BIER, RIFT & BGP+SFC At IETF 98
VoIP
Weekly 58 – The Packet Speaks!
Management
Weekly 80 – SFlow And IP Accounting
Weekly 108 – Wireshark With Gerald Combs
Weekly 131 – Golf Cart In My Fibre Tunnel (managing large networks)
Weekly 192 – Logging Design & Best Practices
Weekly 250 – How To Document A Network
Datanauts 033: Making Telemetry A Snap With Intel’s Open Framework
Datanauts 068: System Management With Redfish
Hardware
Weekly 88 – Server Internals And Network Performance
Weekly 186 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 1
Weekly 187 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 2
Weekly 190 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 3
Show 315: Future Of Networking – Pradeep Sindhu
QoS
Weekly 125 – Bufferbloat – What Can You Do Today To Suffer Less
Priority Queue 57 – Improve Your Home Internet Performance Using CoDel
Security
Weekly 56 – Securing An Internet-Facing App – Part 1 – Host Hardening
Weekly 61 – Securing An Internet-Facing App – Part 2 – Border Routers, Firewalls, IDS/IPS
Weekly 96 – Hack The Hackers: Fyodor On Nmap & The Security Industry
Datanauts 081: Building Secure Email Infrastructure
Datanauts 086: AWS Identity & Access Management Policies
Datanauts 087: The Future Of Infrastructure Security
PQ Show 92: Network Or Endpoint: Where To Put Security?
Orchestration
Weekly 140 – Introduction OpenStack And Quantum Projects
Weekly 227 – OpenStack Neutron Overview With Kyle Mestery
Show 332: Don’t Believe The Programming Hype
Show 333: Automation & Orchestration In Networking
Datanauts 003 – Opening The OpenStack Stack
Datanauts 058: Kubernetes – A Deep-Dive Introduction
Datanauts 072: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Infrastructure & Automation
Automation
Weekly 176 – Intro To Python & Automation For Network Engineers
Weekly 198 – Kirk Byers On Network Automation With Python & Ansible
Datanauts 010 – Automation For Fun And Profit
Datanauts 019: PowerShell For Data Center Automation
Datanauts 053: Automate Some Of The Things
Datanauts 080: The Current State Of Network Automation & Telemetry
Storage Networking
Weekly 183 – Storage Network Design
Weekly 214 – Storage Versus Networking
Datanauts 045: The Fascinating World Of iSCSI
Datanauts 093: Erasure Coding And Distributed Storage
Virtual Switching
Weekly 189 – Connecting VMware To The Network
Weekly 219 – Open vSwitch Obtains Ludicrous Speed
PQ Show 85: FD.IO & VPP Open Virtual Switch
Datanauts 009 – Designing a vSwitch
Application Layer
Show 47 – Load Balancers – Good Thing We Didn’t Step In It
Weekly 224 – HTTP2. Its The Biggest (Network) Thing Happening On The Internet Today
Weekly 226 – What Is A Load Balancer, Anyway?
Datanauts 039: The Silo Series – Resource Allocation for Virtualized Workloads
Optical
Weekly 248 – GPON For Campus Use Cases
Layer 8
Weekly 239 – A New Network From Scratch
Weekly 246 – Data Center Migration
Weekly 255 – Future Of Networking With Douglas Comer
What else should we add here? Any episodes you remember as foundational that we should include in this list? Leave a comment!
Last updated 25-July-2017.
Thanks very muc – the above is a very handy collated list.
Other weekly shows that I noted were particularly useful are as follows:
#7 Q&A w/Ivan Pepelnjak on CEF & MPLS
#56 & #61 Security: Approaches to securing internet-facing apps
#76 More on OpenFlow
#131 Strategies for managing large networks
#145 OpenDaylight
#214 Discussion, Storage v Data Network engineering.
@BriMcS
Brian – added all of your suggestions to the list. Thanks!
You have to look at this list and marvel at what you guys have done for the networking community.
Well done, and keep it coming.
Nice of you to say, man. Thanks. And I have your e-mail on Datanauts – moving to cloud. Will be in touch as soon as the inbox deities permit.
This should really be stickied somewhere on the main page maybe under the FAQ,etc.? Great post
Matt – we’ve put a link to it on the Virtual Toolbox page. Seemed the right place, as that’s where we’re trying to collect all sorts of useful things for network engineers.
https://packetpushers.net/virtual-toolbox/