Nik Weidenbacher

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On IPSec complexity – maybe AWS VPC’s IPSec will emerge as a de-facto standard

Here is a delayed reaction to the posts about IPSec complexity by Jason Edelman and Ivan Pepelnjak last month. AWS might give us decent IPSec ‘standard’ to rally around. There has been plenty of discussion of the past few years about whether it’s a good idea for providers and orchestration stacks to adopt the AWS APIs. There’s no need to […]

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Nik Weidenbacher

Nik Weidenbacher

Nik has been into linux, networking and software development for the past couple of decades. He's been working for a service provider for a long time, and in recent years has been doing a lot with data center automation (the buzzword-enhanced version of that being "cloud orchestration").

The post On IPSec complexity – maybe AWS VPC’s IPSec will emerge as a de-facto standard appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Nik Weidenbacher.

Bash and Net-SNMP: a low budget, high frequency SNMP poller

Introduction Note: This assumes you’re on a linux machine, but it should work on any box where you can install and run Bash, for example windows with Cygwin. (You’ll also need the date program from GNU Core Utilities too, but that’s installed by default on any normal Linux or Cygwin system.) Note: For simplicity the […]

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Nik Weidenbacher

Nik Weidenbacher

Nik has been into linux, networking and software development for the past couple of decades. He's been working for a service provider for a long time, and in recent years has been doing a lot with data center automation (the buzzword-enhanced version of that being "cloud orchestration").

The post Bash and Net-SNMP: a low budget, high frequency SNMP poller appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Nik Weidenbacher.

MPLS VPNs and Junos config groups: a match made in router heaven

Introduction If you manage MPLS VPNs on Juniper Networks devices running Junos (or are learning about doing so), this tip should make your life easier. I can’t imagine operating MPLS VPNs on a scale of more than a handful of VPNs without it. Below I’ll describe how it works, and then to make sure it’s […]

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Nik Weidenbacher

Nik Weidenbacher

Nik has been into linux, networking and software development for the past couple of decades. He's been working for a service provider for a long time, and in recent years has been doing a lot with data center automation (the buzzword-enhanced version of that being "cloud orchestration").

The post MPLS VPNs and Junos config groups: a match made in router heaven appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Nik Weidenbacher.