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RSSThis 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…
READ MOREAruba 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…
READ MOREThe open-source SONiC switch OS, originally developed by Microsoft, got some love from startups at the Open Compute Summit.
READ MOREIn this multi-part series, Ethan Banks reviews the Aruba 8400 chassis switch after his attendance at the launch event in August 2017.
READ MOREArista has announced cEOS, a containerized version of its EOS network operating system that can be deployed on either Arista or whitebox ToR switches.
READ MOREIn 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,…
READ MOREPublishing anonymously about Cisco NX-OS licensing time sucking.
READ MOREWhat 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…
READ MOREJuniper 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…
READ MOREArista'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.
READ MOREI’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…
READ MORELately 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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