February 15, 2024 | Good to Know
Open Source Networking Projects: A Current List
Ethan Banks
Last updated Feb 22, 2024 Thank you to the many list contributors that added their favorite projects to this LinkedIn thread. I had no…
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February 9, 2024 | Career
Postpone Inbox Procrastination
Ethan Banks
This article was originally posted on my now retired personal blog on December 4, 2017. I’m re-printing it here at the request of a…
READ MOREFebruary 7, 2024 | Opinion
SD-WAN Gives Us The Best Path We Always Wanted
Ethan Banks
This article was originally posted on June 15, 2015 on my retired personal blog. It’s been cleaned up a little, augmented with parting thoughts…
READ MOREFebruary 5, 2024 | Career
Career Advice I’d Give To 20, 30 and 40-Something Year Old Me
Ethan Banks
Career Advice To 20-Something Year Old Me Start that business. You have sufficient technical & business skills, and you can figure out what you…
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CLIs Are In My Way – Abstract All The Things
Ethan Banks
This slightly updated post was originally published on my now-retired personal blog on February 11, 2014. My perspective came before network OS APIs were…
READ MOREJanuary 24, 2024 | Startup
Meet FullCtl: For All Your IXP & BGP Peering Automation Needs
Ethan Banks
The Packet Pushers recently had a briefing with Chris Grundemann about startup FullCtl. FullCtl is all about network automation for internet exchanges, service providers,…
READ MOREJuly 19, 2022 | Good to Know
Improving DNS Privacy With QNAME Minimization (RFC7816)
Ethan Banks
This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers' Ignition site on October 1, 2019. When a host doesn’t know the IP address for…
READ MOREJuly 15, 2022 | How-To
Setting Up Public-Private Keys For SSH Authentication
Ethan Banks
The more pedantic in the tech community argue about the merits of public-private key authentication vs. simple password authentication when logging into an SSH…
READ MOREJuly 14, 2022 | Career
Marketing Docs Are Not Written For Engineers
Ethan Banks
When reading marketing literature as an engineer, you must always be careful to parse the words correctly. For example, I was reviewing a vendor’s…
READ MOREJuly 11, 2022 | How-To
Understanding OSPF Router ID (RID) Assignment
Ethan Banks
This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers' Ignition site on March 24, 2020. In both OSPFv2 (IPv4) and OSPFv3 (IPv6), the router ID…
READ MOREJuly 8, 2022 | Good to Know
Formatted CLI Data Is Not Good Enough For Automation
Ethan Banks
This post was originally published on the Packet Pushers' Ignition site on March 2, 2020. Perhaps you haven’t found the motivation to start learning…
READ MOREJune 24, 2022 | Career
Put In The Work
Ethan Banks
This piece first appeared in the June 23, 2022 edition of Human Infrastructure Magazine, the Packet Pushers weekly newsletter. Subscribe for free and get…
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