Show 149 – Questions on the Sweet Spot for the Network Engineer Career
A common discussion in the Packet Pushers Forums and on the #packetpushers IRC channel is questions about career development, focus and doing a good job. These are always good discussions so Greg invited Giulio Chiappini - @its_gcand Jon Garrison – @jpwgarrison to bring their questions & Greg’s does his best to give a perspective, opinions and ideas on worklife as a […]
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Information Hoarders
I make no secret of my love for Seth Godin and his amazing insight into the world. Besides being a marketing genius, he’s like Ockham’s Razor in getting to the essence of a problem. Take today’s posting, which really resonated with me, because it seems to reflect my own frustration with a common problem in […]
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Salary Negotiation For Technical Jobs
I wanted to take just a moment and share a video that one of my twitter friends shared with me. This video is of the final stage of the interview process and outlines the negotiation required to come to a mutually agreeable compensation level. Of key importance, it highlights several items that should be understood […]
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How much are you worth per hour
[This content was originally published on thenetworksherpa.com] Have you ever sat at your desk repeating the same task again and again, getting that groundhog day feeling. Arrrghhh, this is so inefficient someone should automate this. I could even do it myself with five days of focussed work. Sadly, you don’t have five days and the […]
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Teamwork in a Disconnected Environment
As an introvert, I don’t like ice breakers or team building exercises at team meetings. Building the team camaraderie is done slowly over time with peers you work with. Daily interactions during work help build that as engineers learn to trust each other. What about for a team that does not interact with each other […]
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The post Teamwork in a Disconnected Environment appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Charles Galler.
Your Company Doesn’t Care About You
Companies are Systems for Making Money We’ve all heard corporate leadership speak about ‘human resources’ and that ‘people are our most important asset’. This is true but the words ‘resource’ and ‘asset’ were carefully chosen. A resource is something to be mined for value. Please don’t be fooled into thinking that your company cares […]
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Show 148 – Talking With OpenDaylight Leadership
The Packet Pushers are joined by Brent Salisbury of networkstatic.net for a chat with some of the top brass on the OpenDaylight project’s Technical Steering Committee, Dave Meyer and Inder Gopal. “What’s OpenDaylight?” you ask. Why, it’s a consortium of vendors working together under the Linux Foundation umbrella to make an open source reference framework […]
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The post Show 148 – Talking With OpenDaylight Leadership appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Network Design Challenge – Small Little Clouds
At work, we’ve been getting ready to deploy a few different cluster technologies. One is a set of KVM hosts to offer VMaaS functionality to end users. Another is a CEPH cluster (http://ceph.com/) which is smart distributed storage. The third is a Hadoop cluster. Each of these initiatives popped up around the same time and […]
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The post Network Design Challenge – Small Little Clouds appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Mike Kantowski.
Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Basic Language Elements & Concepts 2
Welcome to the fourth part of the Programming 101 for Network Engineers series and part two of the Basic Language Elements and Concepts article. The following overview of programming language elements and those found in part three will provide a good foundation that can be built upon as we move into other topics and the detail […]
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Build a Career with Relationships
Your job hunt traditionally starts with websites like monster.com or dice.com. However, some surveys suggest that between 70 to 80 percent of jobs are found through personal contacts and relationships. So why not spend your efforts building your relationships instead of surfing jobs sites? I can sense some of you getting uncomfortable already. Dont worry, […]
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Review: ScienceLogic – One Network Management Tool To Rule Them All?
ScienceLogic has been getting the right kind of press recently – e.g. they were a winner of Best of Interop 2013 – Management & Monitoring, and Infoworld had some rather nice things to say. They’ve got some high-profile customers too, such as Fasthosts and Equinix. But what exactly is their product all about, and is it any […]
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The post Review: ScienceLogic – One Network Management Tool To Rule Them All? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Lindsay Hill.
Mrs. Y’s Rules for Security Bloggers
Recently Greg Ferro published an e-book for bloggers, “Arse First Method of Technical Blogging.” It has some great suggestions (although I’m not sure what an arse is), but after reading it, I realized it really doesn’t apply to security blogging. Without further ado, here are some of my tips for good infosec blog posts. 1. […]
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SDN: Savior or Grifter?
Grift’s like anything else, Roy. You don’t stand still. You either go up or down. Usually down, sooner or later. Lilly Dillon from “The Grifters” At Interop this month, every vendor had product sheets that claimed, “Now with SDN!” It’s the latest industry buzzword and I started to recall some previous one-hit wonders from the past. Remember […]
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Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Basic Language Elements & Concepts 1
Welcome to the third part of the Programming 101 for Network Engineers series. This is likely to be the most ‘straight up’ piece so far; all fact and almost no fun (but learning is right?). Sorry, but for now the comment and opinion need to be put aside as we get into some nitty-gritty. The following […]
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Two Hours, Two Days…
It’s either two hours, two days, two weeks… or too long. Two things these last two weeks have brought this old saying to mind in full force. First, there is this interesting article about the woes of the Medicaid Management System in Tennessee. Here we have a program that has overrun it’s budget for multiple […]
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The post Two Hours, Two Days… appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
The Important Question for a Technology Fresher
After spending a considerable amount of time on forums like the Cisco Learning Network, it is apparent that there are many challenges for those entering the field of technology. Freshers, as they are known in the industry, have many challenges. Some of these challenges stem from the gap between the education process and the real […]
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The post The Important Question for a Technology Fresher appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
Shopping at the SDN App Store: What Enterprises Really Want?
I contributed 2 pieces to a Network World “digital spotlight” on software defined networking (SDN). SDN’s all the rage with marketing teams & the industry media. I’ve been contracted to write or contribute to a total of 3 large SDN pieces, including this one, over the next few months. And of course at Interop, you couldn’t walk […]
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The post Shopping at the SDN App Store: What Enterprises Really Want? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Cisco OTV Implementation & Troubleshooting (Legacy Multicast mode)
For the details on what Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) is and how it works on a high-level, see my previous blog entry about OTV 101. OTV troubleshooting requires a basic understanding of Multicast, as well as ISIS. In-depth troubleshooting on these subjects are not part of the scope of this document. This document will only […]
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The post Cisco OTV Implementation & Troubleshooting (Legacy Multicast mode) appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ken Matlock.
Show 147 – Avaya Fabric Connect Makes Multicast Simple (Really) – Sponsored
For many network engineers, IP multicast routing is evil. Difficult to design, complicated to implement, painful to troubleshoot and challenging to scale, multicast routing is rarely implemented on a given network unless it’s absolutely required. Most engineers would just rather not bother until the issue is forced upon them. Blame PIM. Blame RPF checks. Blame […]
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The post Show 147 – Avaya Fabric Connect Makes Multicast Simple (Really) – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Cisco OTV 101 (Legacy Multicast Mode): MAC Learning Process Walk
What is OTV? Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) is a Cisco-proprietary protocol suite that allows us to extend Layer 2 between datacenters with Layer 3 boundaries in between. It works by encapsulating the L2 packets into L3 multicast packets and sending them out to all other OTV AED’s (Authoritative Edge Devices, used for loop prevention). The […]
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The post Cisco OTV 101 (Legacy Multicast Mode): MAC Learning Process Walk appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ken Matlock.