This Week On The Internet: Animated AT-AT, Abused Robot
From an animated AT-AT to the need for punchable robots to a post-Internet utopia, here's a selection of strange and interesting items coughed up online.
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Show 254 – Riverbed: Beyond WAN Optimization – Sponsored
Riverbed’s Hansang Bae, Brad Wood, and Scot Wilson discuss how network engineers can conquer the complexities of today’s hybrid WANs. Hear about the latest advancements from Riverbed and why the company is primed to support the emerging SD-WAN market.
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HTIRW: The Internet Society
In ending this series — which I hope has been useful for Packet Pusher’s readers to get a solid survey of the entire Internet’s operational structure — we’ll talk about one of the “forgotten” groups of people helping to build and maintain the ‘net as we know it. Without this organization the Internet probably simply […]
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Big Switch Takes A Risk With Innovative SDN Pricing
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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Fortinet and Software Defined
Can there be a market category for software defined network security ? If so, Fortinet is going after it.
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Oracle VirtualBox Network Modes
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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Risky Business #382 — Charlie Miller talks car hax, Uber
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.
Rebuilding Reader
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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How not to pass the CCIE Lab Exam in R&S V5
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 […]
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Network Break 52: From AI To Ashley Madison Bots
Network Break 52 offers a reality check on VMware's prediction of AI for IT, covers VMworld news, speculates on the Cisco/Apple partnership, and delves into Ashley Madison bots.
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Open Source CloudRouter Goes to Production
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.
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Do 5th Graders Really Need Laptops?
I’m conflicted about the expansion of tech into education. Is another screen really going to enhance learning, or just make kids increasingly distracted?
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Show 253 – Sonus Networks SDN & NaaS IQ – Sponsored
Today’s show, sponsored by Sonus Networks, examines ways to deliver predictable traffic behavior in an environment of congestion via an intelligent network control coupled with application-aware policies driven by business rules.
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Risky Business #381 — Samy Kamkar on his outlaw days
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 EOS: Benefits & Challenges Of A Single OS
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.
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Network Break 51: The VMware Machine, Arista On Quality
Network Break 51 talks VMware and EMC leadership, new VMware products, Arista's quality manifesto, Dell's business unit for high-performance compute, Brocade financial news, and a container update.
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Looking at IS-IS Security
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 […]
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Yet Another new BGP NLRI: BGP-LS
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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Just How Big Is The SD-WAN Market? And Should We Care?
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.
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Show 252 – Design & Build 5 – BGP In The Data Center
BGP is typically found in the data center at the edge, but it keeps popping up in SDN conversations. For data centers of a certain size, maybe BGP makes sense. To find out, we gathered four engineers to discuss data center BGP.
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