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Why Compatibility And Support Don’t Justify $1000 Optics
Howdy. By now I hope y’all realize I don’t pull any punches and no subject is off-limits. Having said that, I want be upfront and say this subject is very near and dear to my heart and is one of my main areas of work for almost two years. I’ll do my best to be […]
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Debug Generator – Fortigate Flow Trace
I’ve found that when working with Fortigate firewalls and needing to be able to use the debug flow command set, it takes a bit too long to manually type out the commands. If you’re in a pressurised environment saving a few seconds here and there can be valuable. First we need to grab the script […]
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Debug Generator – Fortigate Flow Trace
I’ve found that when working with Fortigate firewalls and needing to be able to use the debug flow command set, it takes a bit too long to manually type out the commands. If you’re in a pressurised environment saving a few seconds here and there can be valuable. First we need to grab the script […]
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Configuration Management: DevOps From Ops
Configuration Management is a big category today, largely comprised of Puppet and Chef, followed by Ansible and Salt, but what is Configuration Management? Configuration Management is, at it’s simplest, a matter of boolean states on a machine, stack, or infrastructure. Is the Apache httpd installed on this server? If not, install it. Does this file […]
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Configuration Management: DevOps From Ops
Configuration Management is a big category today, largely comprised of Puppet and Chef, followed by Ansible and Salt, but what is Configuration Management? Configuration Management is, at it’s simplest, a matter of boolean states on a machine, stack, or infrastructure. Is the Apache httpd installed on this server? If not, install it. Does this file […]
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What Are SAI And Switchdev And Why Do We Need Them To Succeed?
Howdy. In my last post I discussed the need for an open source framework to drive merchant switching silicon. Towards the end of that long post, I mentioned a future post talking about the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) and switchdev in depth. Welcome to that post. There’s been a lot of synergy between both projects, […]
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What Are SAI And Switchdev And Why Do We Need Them To Succeed?
Howdy. In my last post I discussed the need for an open source framework to drive merchant switching silicon. Towards the end of that long post, I mentioned a future post talking about the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) and switchdev in depth. Welcome to that post. There’s been a lot of synergy between both projects, […]
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OpenConfig: Standardized Models For Networking
The customer-driven OpenConfig project is establishing network models to encourage development & use of platform independent configuration tools. But will vendors support this effort? And what about the IETF, who is also working on standard networking models? Is there a conflict?
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OpenConfig: Standardized Models For Networking
The customer-driven OpenConfig project is establishing network models to encourage development & use of platform independent configuration tools. But will vendors support this effort? And what about the IETF, who is also working on standard networking models? Is there a conflict?
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Make Like A Tree And Branch Out
Alright, so you’ve decided to branch out and you may be wondering what else you can do to help things along. You can always try your friendly neighborhood blog or message board, but there’s always the problem of whether or not you’re getting good information. You should also check to see if your company has […]
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Make Like A Tree And Branch Out
Alright, so you’ve decided to branch out and you may be wondering what else you can do to help things along. You can always try your friendly neighborhood blog or message board, but there’s always the problem of whether or not you’re getting good information. You should also check to see if your company has […]
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Don’t Do Anything Twice
Hello, and welcome to my first blog post! Today I’ll be talking automation and why we automate things, including the simplest response of “it’s more interesting than doing the same thing 15 times a day”. That seems like such a simple thing to say, but it’s boring to do the same thing every day. It […]
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Don’t Do Anything Twice
Hello, and welcome to my first blog post! Today I’ll be talking automation and why we automate things, including the simplest response of “it’s more interesting than doing the same thing 15 times a day”. That seems like such a simple thing to say, but it’s boring to do the same thing every day. It […]
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Why The Industry Needs An Open Source Framework For Switching Silicon
Howdy. Occasionally the topic of open sourcing a driver, library, or SDK to a commodity product comes up as more developers start working on/deploying said product. Typically, the vendor makes a concession and opens up the documentation to increase adoption and supportability. Sometimes this works. Sometimes, it just pisses off the developers to such an […]
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Why The Industry Needs An Open Source Framework For Switching Silicon
Howdy. Occasionally the topic of open sourcing a driver, library, or SDK to a commodity product comes up as more developers start working on/deploying said product. Typically, the vendor makes a concession and opens up the documentation to increase adoption and supportability. Sometimes this works. Sometimes, it just pisses off the developers to such an […]
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Is Your Fetus Falling Behind?
There's no shortage of companies that prey on the anxieties of our performance-driven age by touting dubious, high-tech elixirs to help us get ahead.
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Is Your Fetus Falling Behind?
There's no shortage of companies that prey on the anxieties of our performance-driven age by touting dubious, high-tech elixirs to help us get ahead.
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Six Solid Steps To Design Technical Teams
These six steps can help you design the right technical team in your organization.
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Six Solid Steps To Design Technical Teams
These six steps can help you design the right technical team in your organization.
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Yet Another Blog About Segment Routing, Part3: SR-TE
In the last blog we looked at PCE for centralized path-computation and PCEP as a communication protocol between PCE and PCC.We also looked at brief demo of PCE sending ERO’s (IP or SR Node labels) to the PCC(Head end). In this Blog post we will particularly try to focus at Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) aspects of […]
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