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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 switchport command, scenario, and preference that could possibly apply to switchport provisioning. What I initially thought would be a fun…
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Network Configuration is still done by hand. Each engineer types in each command after thirty years of "progress". Does this seem right to you ? Tail-F systems sponsored today's show to talk about their Network Configuration System and the advantage of using…
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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 fact. Certifications get a person down the road a good distance, but ultimately, there's no teacher like experience. I…
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I wanted to know more about VXLAN and NVGRE so who better than Ken Duda from (http://aristanetworks.com) from Arista Networks, the only author listed on both IETF RFCS and [Ivan Pepelnjak](http://blog.ioshints.info) on a call to go fast and loose on the topics.…
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The virtual workbench convened on August 9, 2011 with Greg Ferro, Ethan, Kurt Bales, Tom Hollingsworth, Josh O'Brien, and Mrs. Y (aka the Network Security Princess). This week we cover news, views and gossip of the last few weeks. A lot of complaining and…
Listen NowA show about Cisco Nexus 1000V where we poke and prod at some of it's inner workings. 1. Virtual Machine Networking - the Nexus 1000V VEM data plane, port profiles, etc. VSM control plane (Nexus 1010) 2. Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) -…
Listen NowGuests Tom Hollingsworth http://networkingnerd.wordpress.com | Twitter: @NetworkingNerd John McManus http://etherealmind.com/author/mcmanusj/ | Twitter: @_johnmcmanus_ Greg Ferro http://etherealmind.com| Twitter @etherealmind Topic 1 - iPad 2 Apparently none of us are going to buy one, because we've already got one. Topic 2 - What is Cloud…
Listen NowGuests Tom Hollingsworth http://networkingnerd.wordpress.com | Twitter: @NetworkingNerd Brandon Carroll http://globalconfig.net/ | Twitter: @brandoncarroll John McManus http://etherealmind.com/author/mcmanusj/ | Twitter: @_johnmcmanus_ Topic 1 Juniper QFabric Announcement Is this the point we start to re-think the 3 Layers of Network Architecture, will the future generation…
Listen NowThis week on the Packet Pushers we had Guests Josh O'Brien Matthew Norwood Jeremy Filliben Marko MILIVOJEVIC Topics Discussed Matthew recently posted about Myths of IT http://networktherapy.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/the-myths-of-it-part-2/ where he points out the IT people don’t REALLY need business skills just commonsense. Looking…
Listen NowScott Lowe and I planned to have a discussion around L2 Data Centre connection the VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen but Scott and I could not meetup. So we recorded this podcast to start talking about some of the issues, technology and solutions…
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Introduction In taking over a network that someone else built, I have had the chance to review the topology through my own peculiar lens, considering what I will do differently. Some discoveries have warranted needful and immediate change, so as to retire…
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