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Let’s Connect at VMworld 2014
I’ll be at VMworld in a couple of weeks. If you’re a vendor that would like to chat, please schedule me. I’d be happy to meet. If you’re a fellow IT engineer, I’d be happy to meet up as well. I’ll be hanging with folks from Tech Field Day, as well as Chris […]“What Might Have Been?” Is The Wrong Question
A friend sent me a picture of an ink stamp from a company we started back in 1999 or so. It was a little consulting & hosting company that delivered for our customers things that we were good at: web hosting, e-mail services with spam protection, and a variety of SMB IT services. […]Show 198 – Kirk Byers on Network Automation with Python & Ansible
Kirk Byers has been doing network automation work for quite a while now. I’ve been following his Pynet mailing list, where he teaches list members in a series of structured lessons how to code in Python, harnessing the scripting language’s power for network automation. I met Kirk at Cisco Live US, and we got to […]
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Show 197 – Cisco Nexus Updates with Ron Fuller – Sponsored
Repeat guest and friend of the Packet Pushers Ron Fuller chats with Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks about the latest updates to both the hardware and software in the ever-growing and capable Cisco Nexus product line. We get a thorough update in this show, hitting lots and lots of highlights. Discussion What’s new with the […]
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Show 196 – EVPN Introduction & Use-Cases with Russ White + Jeff Tantsura
This week, Packet Pushers’ hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro queue up a discussion about a new technology, exploring EVPN with Russ White & Jeff Tantsura from Ericsson. What’s EVPN? Well, it’s short for Ethernet VPN, and it’s a way of using BGP as a routing system for MAC addresses. If that sounds like SPB […]
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Show 194 – SDN Northbound Interfaces with Sarwar Raza + Colin Dixon
At a conference I attended in late 2013 or early 2014 (I’ve forgetten which one), I was privileged to hear Sarwar Raza (HP, ONF) discuss the challenge of creating and implementing SDN northbound interfaces (NBI). Then at the Open Daylight Summit in February 2014, I found myself in a conversation with Colin Dixon (Brocade, formerly […]
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Show 193 – Huawei CloudEngine & CloudFabric for the DC + Enterprise – Sponsored
Global telecom giant Huawei continues to grow their substantial networking footprint by pushing into the enterprise and data center spaces with competitive products. In this podcast, Ian Foo, Director for Data Center Products & Solutions Enterprise Global Marketing at Huawei, joins co-hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro in a discussion focused on Huawei’s CloudEngine switches […]
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Show 192 – Logging Design & Best Practices
Jay Swan, Lennart Koopman, and Wes Kennedy join the Packet Pushers co-hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro in this discussion of effectively managing event logging. Why discuss logging on a show about networking? Because networking has a huge volume of logs coming from routers, switches, and firewalls that need to be managed. And frankly, it’s […]
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The Packet Pushers At Dell’s Interop Booth Tuesday & Wednesday @ 3:45pm
The Dell networking team has asked the Packet Pushers to co-host a couple of Interop sessions at their booth. Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks will be at the Dell booth on Tuesday, 1-April and Wednesday, 2-April at 3:45pm. In the Tuesday session, we’ll be discussing the new Dell Z9500. In the Wednesday session, we’ll discuss […]
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Show 184 – The Future of Networking Part 2 as Inspired by #NFD7
At Networking Field Day 7, the delegates were treated to vendor demonstrations that challenged our thinking about the future of networking. Perhaps the industry is not agreed on just how we’ll implement and operate our networks in the coming years, but one thing is for certain. The landscape will be different. In this and the previously […]
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Show 183 – Storage Network Design
This week, the Packet Pushers talk about storage network design mostly in the context of converged infrastructure. Guests J Metz, Chris Wahl, and Russ White do all the heavy lifting of those storage-related packets from one end of the data center to the other. Show Outline When traditional network engineers think about designing for storage, […]
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Show 182 – The Future of Networking Part 1 As Inspired By #NFD7
At Networking Field Day 7, the delegates were treated to vendor demonstrations that challenged our thinking about the future of networking. Perhaps the industry is not agreed on just how we’ll implement and operate our networks in the coming years, but one thing is for certain. The landscape will be different. In this and the […]
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Show 181 – Intro to I2RS with Joel Halpern & Russ White
Traditionally, routing protocols running on a router will perform calculations to determine the best forwarding path. The RIB with be then populated with next-hop information. Ultimately, that information will be populated into the FIB (forwarding information base), the FIB taking the guesswork of how to get to the next hop and easing CPU utilization on […]
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Show 180 – The Art of Network Architecture: Business-Driven Design
In this show, host Ethan Banks is joined by Russ White & Denise Donohue, co-authors of the soon-to-be-released CiscoPress title, The Art of Network Architecture: Business Driven Design. Orhan Ergun reviewed the book and also shares his perspectives. This isn’t just a book review, though. Really, the show uses the book as a springboard to […]
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Show 179 – Avaya Efficient Data Center Design at Fujitsu & the Sochi 2014 Winter Games
In this episode, Avaya comes on board to talk about new and efficient ways to design data centers. They bring a couple of customers along to discuss their implementations: Fujitsu Technology Solutions and the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Speaking with host Greg Ferro are Paul Unbehagen, Chief Architect for Avaya Networking; Albert Knoll, Network […]
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Please Fill Out Our 2014 Audience Survey
Packet Pushers is a big part of Greg’s & Ethan’s lives and the show is continuing to grow in 2014. We learn a lot, laugh a lot, and work hard to bring you the show every week and fresh content on the blog site. Despite enjoying editing and writing along with producing the podcast, the […]
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Show 176 – Intro to Python & Automation for Network Engineers
Network engineers keep hearing about Software Defined Networking (SDN) and wonder, “Will I have to become a programmer to keep my job?” The answer is, “Probably not.” However, there’s still an awful lot to be said for network engineers becoming familiar with the tools of network automation. There’s a gain in productivity to be had […]
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Please Check Your Feed URLs – FeedBurner Is Dead To Us
We here at Packet Pushers used to use FeedBurner. It was a value-added RSS service that was eventually brought under Google’s mighty power. Sadly, as with Buzz and Wave, Google has killed FeedBurner. While the FeedBurner service is still limping along, we’re seeing unpredictable results. Even the 301 redirects Greg programmed a while back are […]
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Show 174 – War Stories From the Hot Aisle: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Part 2
“Everything is down! The whole network!! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!” Yes, we’ve all had those terrible days in networking, where no one can get to anything & it’s all up to you to get it fixed. At least management is there to help, stomping their feet, making demands, and whining about the dollars lost per […]
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Show 173 – War Stories From The Hot Aisle: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Part 1
“Everything is down! The whole network!! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!” Yes, we’ve all had those terrible days in networking, where no one can get to anything & it’s all up to you to get it fixed. At least management is there to help, stomping their feet, making demands, and whining about the dollars lost per […]
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