I wanted to take a quick moment to offer up my congratulations, and share the news about SocketPlane. Their press release announcing that they had received investment from LightSpeed Venture Partners says: SAN FRANCISCO, October 15, 2014 – Today SocketPlane, an … Continue reading
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So apparently, over at EtherealMind, that Greg Ferro chap is going slightly insane and has challenged himself and others to a “30 Blogs in 30 Days” challenge. Because I like Greg, I’m not going to make a big deal about … Continue reading
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Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of meeting with Chris Young and Jeff Enters from HP Networking as part of Tech Field Day Extra! at Interop NYC 2014. Going into the discussion I had expected to get a presentation on … Continue reading
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I set up a new secondary ISC DHCP server yesterday, as an interim solution while I get round to fixing a dead server. The easiest short term fix was to spin up a VM and install DHCP there. As I … Continue reading
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I was looking at some Ethernet interface statistics last week when I realized I couldn’t find the output that confirmed the results of Ethernet Autonegotiation, just that autonegotiation had been enabled: john@noisy> show interfaces ge-0/0/0 Physical interface: ge-0/0/0, Enabled, Physical link … Continue reading
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That’s right, in the face of strong competition from “Google Now” (home of “Ok Google”) and Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s software developers are working hard to add features and improve Siri’s capabilities and responses. After all, with Microsoft running commercials recently where Cortana … Continue reading
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This week’s Secret Sunday post is a pointer to a fairly well known blogger, Ethan Banks. Yes, he’s well known for co-hosting the popular Packet Pushers podcast and he is an all round good guy, but his blog – especially of … Continue reading
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Earlier this week I described how I had dipped my toe in the waters of Docker and determined in the end that while the solution was pretty neat, it smacked of being too much solution for the problem at hand. … Continue reading
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I have a friend who wants to test a tool I wrote in perl (yes yes, I know) but it seemed to me that it was going to be a big pain for him to have to install all the … Continue reading
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In yesterday’s post (Network Monitoring – So Many Choices), I neglected to link to the videos from Networking Field Day 8 covering the network monitoring portions of the presentations from Gigamon, Pluribus and Big Switch. So rather than go back … Continue reading
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I’ve had network monitoring systems on my mind recently as we’ve been looking to determine the right specification for a number of fiber taps and aggregation devices so that we can fulfill the needs of both the security teams (for … Continue reading
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This one has seriously crept up on me; it’s only a week until the kickoff presentation for Networking Field Day 8 in Silicon Valley. I’m truly honored to be able to attend another Tech Field Day event, and this one … Continue reading
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Welcome back to Secret Sunday! This week I’m directing your attention to Keeping It Classless, the blog of Matt Oswalt (aka @mierdin). Matt has recently published 3 of 4 planned parts of his SDN Protocols series, and if you’re interesting in … Continue reading
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This weekend’s interesting link is to a post by Jeremy Schulman, formerly Director of Network Automation with Juniper Networks, but now the founder of Schprokits, a startup which aims to generate automation framework tools for network professionals that are of … Continue reading
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Recently I’ve been writing some automation code for Atlassian’s JIRA project management / bug tracking product. Think of JIRA as a generic AGILE-aware tool that can provide everything from project tracking all the way down to task tracking, trouble ticketing … Continue reading
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I had a chance last week to speak with a couple of folks at Solarwinds about the release of their Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 11 product, which is being announced today. I don’t cover network management products too often, but Solarwinds … Continue reading
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Another day, another issue with an automation script. Today’s task was to grab the configuration file from an A10 Thunder load balancer. I don’t want to use the GUI, and while I could – in theory – use ssh and … Continue reading
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