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Author Archives: Packet Pushers - The Fat Pipe of Podcasts & Blogs
Big Switch takes an innovative approach to pricing a hardware/software SDN product that cuts the customer's capital expenditure in half and takes advantage of usage-based billing.
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Can there be a market category for software defined network security ? If so, Fortinet is going after it.
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There’s been a whole heap (programming pun intended) of blogs around automation and virtualisation over the last few years, with some rather good ones of late centred around the now classic mix of VirtualBox, Vagrant and Ansible*|**. I’m particularly enjoying the Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! series by Larry Smith Jr. at the moment. I may […]
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On this week's show we're checking in with Charlie Miller. We chat car hacking and we also (kind of) find out what he's up to now he's working at Uber.
This week's show is brought to you by HackLabs, an Australian security consultancy. They're a key sponsor of Australia's Cyber Security Challenge, which is basically a CTF for Australian CS students. What makes this one a bit different is it's being run by the Prime Minister's Office, which is, yeah, unexpected. Chris joins us later to discuss the challenge, that's this week's sponsor interview.
For the time being, we are discontinuing Reader.PacketPushers.net. We didn't advertise it heavily in the past. Reader saw some traffic, but not a lot. And...we were never entirely happy with the result we got out of it. Our plan is to reboot Reader at some point in the future with new software. We still think it's a good idea, but we want to get a more polished look and feel out of it first.
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I am very pleased to announce that last week I did pass the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching version 5 and am now CCIE #50038 To explain the title of this post the method I chose to pass the CCIE is not best practice and it took me quite a few attempts across […]
The post How not to pass the CCIE Lab Exam in R&S V5 appeared first on Packet Pushers.
If you have wondered why there isn't a open-source project for IP routing then you will be pleased to know that CloudRouter has announced that it is production ready.
The post Open Source CloudRouter Goes to Production appeared first on Packet Pushers.
I’m conflicted about the expansion of tech into education. Is another screen really going to enhance learning, or just make kids increasingly distracted?
The post Do 5th Graders Really Need Laptops? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
On this week's show we're chatting with hacker superstar and YouTube phenomenon Samy Kamkar. Samy is a security researcher of note -- his recent hardware hacks have been coming thick and fast. This week I spoke to him about his brush with the law following his unleashing of the Samy worm on MySpace a decade ago, some of his recent research and his plans for the future.
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.
The post Arista EOS: Benefits & Challenges Of A Single OS appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Engineers hardly ever think of the control plane as an attack surface — from the new/old wave of centralized controllers (Rule 11!) to the middle term wave of distributed routing protocols, the control plane just hums along in the background without many people thinking about it from a security perspective. That is, until a big […]
The post Looking at IS-IS Security appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Yes, that’s right, we have another new BGP NLRI: BGP-LS. In this post we will be looking at BGP with Link State (LS) extension which is an integral part of the Carrier SDN strategy. We will look at why we need BGP-LS, its internals and its applications. What I won’t cover is things like do we need SDN?, […]
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Incumbents and startups alike are rushing into the SD-WAN market. So how much of an opportunity is there? So far, the data points aren't very good. And maybe they don't matter anyway.
The post Just How Big Is The SD-WAN Market? And Should We Care? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
On this week's show we look at the fallout from the Ashley Madison attack. Did Brian Krebs just dox the Impact Team ringleader? Is he Australian?
Adam Boileau and I talk about all the AshMad fallout and other infosec news.
Startup Rubrik tackles VM backups with an integrated appliance that offers premises and cloud-based storage, and offers deuplication and replication. It can back up to Amazon S3 or OpenStack private clouds.
The post Startup Radar: Rubrik Rethinks VM Backups appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Active distributed monitoring gathers network and application performance data from multiple locations to give IT better visibility and improve troubleshooting. Find out how NetBeez simplifies distributed monitoring.
The post How Distributed Network Monitoring Boosts Visibility, Speeds Troubleshooting appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Highlights from Network Field Day 10 include the SD-WAN goldrush, the novel concept of quality products, and the performance-boosting DPDK project.
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In this week's podcast we check in with Troy Hunt from HaveIBeenPwned.com. Troy has done the responsible thing in adding the Ashley Madison dataset to his service -- you can only search for email addresses in the dump after you've verified that you control them. We'll talk to him about why he did that.
I recently moved from Windows to Linux on my personal laptop and thought I might share my experience. This isn’t directly network related, but hopefully of interest to some portion of the large and diverse PP audience, especially considering recent events in the Microsoft realm. Ignoring that, using Linux ‘at home’ is a great way to learn about […]
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When I’m not working (boring right now), reading Everyday Feminism (fascinating*) or spending time with the family (awesome) I’m writing. I’ve three book projects on the go, two of which are taking far too long and rapidly become a chore. The third is the third edition of my F5 iRules book (I’m not shilling – […]
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