PQ Show 60: The IO Visor Project And Linux Networking
IO Visor is an open source project to bring a programmable data plane to the Linux kernel. We find out how it works and how it compares to other projects to optimize Linux for networking.
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PQ Show 59 – Docker Network Plugin Architecture
While attending an influencers event at Intel in Portland, Oregon I got into a discussion with Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower and Keith Townsend @ctoadvisor on the nature of Docker networking and its plugin architecture.
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Machine Learning For Networks: It’s Coming
Machine learning is an emerging technology that could significantly affect networking, including security, predicting the effects of changes, bug detection, and more.
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Savvius Launches Low-Cost Monitoring, Packet Capture Appliance
Savvius has launched a new monitoring appliance, Insight, that integrates with Splunk and can capture packets for forensic analysis.
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Datanauts 012: The Scintillating Storage Smorgasbord
The Datanauts and Howard Marks serve up a buffet of storage topics, including the pros and cons of all-flash and hybrid arrays, the ins and outs of cloud and object storage, and what's up with Virtual Volumes.
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Moving to the cloud? Willing to talk about it on Datanauts?
The Datanauts Podcast is looking for enterprise infrastructure folks who have worked on a project to migrate applications from in-house to the cloud. Interested in being a guest? Ping me -- [email protected] -- and let us know. You can be anonymous if you like, and you don't have to use your company name.
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FlexVPN QoS
This post will cover several most common QoS configuration techniques for Multipoint VPNs. Focus will be on FlexVPN DMVPN, however most of the conclusions will be applicable to the traditional DMVPN as well. Assumptions Most of the FlexVPN and DMVPN deployments use Internet as a WAN transport. This creates a very unique set of requirements […]
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Network Break 57: Vendor Upheaval, Zombie Cookies Bite
Network Break 57 delves into Dell and EMC and looks at upheavals affecting Juniper, Cisco, and AT&T. We also run from a new Verizon zombie tracking cookie, and opine on the rest of the week's tech news.
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Show 258: Application Centricity With Kemp Technologies (Sponsored)
Kemp Technologies joins the Packet Pushers for this sponsored episode to talk about how application and network owners can leverage SDN, NFV, and hybridity to deliver applications more effectively.
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Risky Business #386 — Katie Moussouris on the (groan) disclosure debate
On this week's show we're checking in with Katie Moussouris of HackerOne. She's an ex Microsoftie who's spent something like a decade working on vulnerability disclosure policies. She even helped get a vuln disclosure ISO standard ratified!
And she'll be joining us this week to discuss disclosure politics, I guess you'd call it... for those of us who've been around infosec for a while, most of us would rather stick our face in a blender than talk about it, but Katie will be along to point out why people should fight their "disclosure debate fatigue" and get involved.
Xirrus Offers New Security Option For Public Wi-Fi
Xirrus is launching a new security feature to encrypt wireless connections between a device and an AP on a public Wi-Fi network. While it's easy to use, it does have limitations.
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PQ 58: Alibi Routing With UMD’s Dave Levin
In this podcast, Packet Pushers co-host Ethan Banks gets a bit into the weeds with University of Maryland's Dave Levin in this detailed discussion of Alibi Routing, a privacy-driven research project to prove that traffic flowing between a particular source and destination did not traverse a specific geographic region.
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ONUG And Tech Field Day: A Preview
The impact of open networking on the enterprise will be a hot topic at ONUG and the ONUG Tech Field Day Extra. I'll be reporting from both events.
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Datanauts 011: Understanding Leaf-Spine Networks
The Datanauts explore the leaf-spine network architecture and examine how it works, how it differs from the traditional 3-tier design, and why it's a good fit for modern data centers.
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Network Break 56: Startups Get Rich, Amazon Picks A Fight
Take a Network Break! We check on the latest startup funding, examine Mellanox's EZchip buy, drop our jaws over news from AdBlock Plus and Amazon, and more.
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Back to Basics: How to Rack a Switch
This article is the first in a new mini-series where I will be doing semi-deep dives on some of the simpler, but often overlooked, aspects of network and datacenter engineering. Approx Reading Time: 3-4 Minutes It is quite commonplace these days to see equipment mounted incorrectly in a rack. Even though we are not mechanical […]
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Polite Malware, Vegetarian Propaganda: This Week On The Internet
This Week On The Internet looks at some unusual IoT malware, why breaks are important, how to become a pro gamer, and vegetarian propaganda.
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Show 257: VeloCloud SD-WAN: Sponsored
Join us for a discussion of VeloCloud's SD-WAN solution. Find out how it assures application performance over any Internet link, provides access to cloud resources, and simplifies branch deployments.
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Risky Business #385 — Richard Bejtlich talks USA/China espionage agreement
******LANGUAGE WARNING: The f-bomb features, unbleeped, once in this week's show. Just a note for those of you with the kids in the car.
On this week's show we're chatting with FireEye's chief security strategist Richard Bejtlich about this new agreement between China and the USA. The two countries have apparently agreed that they won't hack each other with the aim of stealing IP anymore. Questions to Richard include: Are they kidding? And: How did they announce this with a straight face?
PQ Show 57 – Improve Your Home Internet Performance Using CoDel
Rich Brown chats with Ethan Banks about CoDel, an algorithm specifically designed to minimize the impact of bufferbloat. Rich and Ethan explain how CoDel works, and discuss the head-drop principle, sojourn times, TCP ECN, and more. This is a nerdy look at how your modem handles buffering, and how you can improve your home networking experience.
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