March 30, 2021 | How-To
This post was originally published on 30-March-2021. It needs to be updated. Let Ethan know on Slack if you’d like to see this article freshened up. Here’s my current list…
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Aruba Networks has announced two new switch lines for campus and data center networks, plus a new release of its network OS. The company has also updated its network OS…
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March 22, 2018 | Startup
The open-source SONiC switch OS, originally developed by Microsoft, got some love from startups at the Open Compute Summit.
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October 2, 2017 | Opinion
In this multi-part series, Ethan Banks reviews the Aruba 8400 chassis switch after his attendance at the launch event in August 2017.
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Arista has announced cEOS, a containerized version of its EOS network operating system that can be deployed on either Arista or whitebox ToR switches.
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November 29, 2016 | How-To
In continuation of Part1, Part 2 of useful show commands will be focusing little bit more related to troubleshooting tools available in JUNOS local on the router. In any case,…
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September 12, 2016 | Opinion
Publishing anonymously about Cisco NX-OS licensing time sucking.
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April 28, 2016 | How-To
What follows is an article about how I recently rebuilt a single-purpose home NAS into a multi-purpose data services machine, all while keeping the data storage structures untouched and completely…
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Juniper plans to disaggregate its Junos switch OS from the new QFX5200 switches. The QFX5200 line will be the first from Juniper that lets customers choose to run Junos or…
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Arista's EOS is a single binary image that runs on all its products. This lets Arista do interesting things with APIs and an SDK, but it creates potential challenges too.
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January 7, 2015 | How-To
I’ll admit it – I’ve drunk the “Network Engineers should learn programming” Kool-Aid. In so doing, I’m gearing up for Kirk Byers upcoming “Python for Network Engineers” course by hacking…
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June 14, 2013 | How-To
Lately I have been investigating how to monitor BGP peering session via SNMP instead of traps/syslog messages and I found out that this feature is not documented properly for IOS…
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