Getting Ansible to talk to your Cisco devices
As a listener to the podcast you’ve probably heard about Ansible once or twice already. In short Ansible is a simple IT automation tool. It’s often mentioned together with Puppet, however a big difference is that Ansible is agentless. Using Puppet assumes that you have a Puppet agent installed on the nodes that you want […]
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The post Getting Ansible to talk to your Cisco devices appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Patrick Ogenstad.
HTIRW: Reality at the Mic (2)
Last time we talked about a few things that go wrong in the IETF — this time we’ll talk about a few more things that can go wrong. Boiling the Ocean. Engineers, as a rule, like to solve problems. The problem is we often seem to think the bigger the problem, the better the solution. […]
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The post HTIRW: Reality at the Mic (2) appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
Troubleshooting Networks: Tips from a Network Detective
For over 30 years I’ve been in the playing in the “world of IT” and wow has that world changed a great deal in those years. But through all that change, there has been a thread, for me, that has always remained constant. Troubleshooting! The thrill of the “chase” and the challenge of solving the […]
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The post Troubleshooting Networks: Tips from a Network Detective appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Denise "Fish" Fishburne.
CCIE RS study planning, books, notes
Study planning Books, workbooks, videos, software, rack rental tokens, laptop hardware and software have all been purchased; it’s time to get this party started. So, what’s the plan? The urge to dive right into the sexy labs and save the boring planning stuff for later was strong. More than once I had to channel my […]
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The post CCIE RS study planning, books, notes appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by quingenerd.
Network Break 34 – Fixed
Excerpt: Coffee, virtual doughnuts and networking. A perfect combination.
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The post Network Break 34 – Fixed appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Network Break 34
Excerpt: Coffee, virtual doughnuts and networking. A perfect combination.
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The post Network Break 34 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Show 231 – OpenFlow’s Possible Futures with Curt Beckmann
Seen as a unifier and enabler in its early days, OpenFlow has come up against some adoption barriers in the form of silicon challenges and vendor-specific extensions that has resulted in a marketplace of OpenFlow options awash in inconsistency. How does OpenFlow rise above this current state of things? Or does it? The Packet Pushers discuss with Curt Beckmann.
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The post Show 231 – OpenFlow’s Possible Futures with Curt Beckmann appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
ISIS Link-Group
Introduction On the Core or Edge network, we need more and more bandwidth. For a large service provider, in some parts of the world it’s quite expensive to upgrade links, .ie from 1Gb/s to 10Gb/s. There are two alternatives: aggregate the links either on layer 2 or by doing Layer 3 ECMP. With layer 2 […]
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The post ISIS Link-Group appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Youssef El Fathi.
PQ Show 46 – SaiSei & Network Performance Enhancement
Saisei does Network Performance Enhancement that delivers visibility and control of the network traffic in a different way. In this show, we examine how software and algorithms provide visibility and control of network traffic. Traffic management for the next decade.
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The post PQ Show 46 – SaiSei & Network Performance Enhancement appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
CCIE sponsorship proposal example
Departing the lovely, sterile, electronic testing center after passing the final CCNP Route/Switch exam, and I’m on the way to the local pub to celebrate. You know what I’m already thinking about: gotta ride that wave, right? Stoke the flames, feet off the pedals down the hill, ride the momentum up the next, and all […]
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Show 230 – Load Balancing With Citrix NetScaler – Sponsored
Load balancers (or application delivery controllers, if you prefer) have been a topic that come up from time to time on Packet Pushers. In today’s sponsored show, members of the Citrix NetScaler team join hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro in an introductory discussion of the NetScaler load balancer family.
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The post Show 230 – Load Balancing With Citrix NetScaler – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Network Break 33
Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. Sponsored by Viptela - SDN WAN that give 10x more for 1/3 the cost.
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The post Network Break 33 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
OpenStack Neutron – The Dirty Network Detail
This post is just a quick response to a comment by Turing Machinæ on Show 227 – OpenStack Neutron Overview with Kyle Mestery, which was “I’ve learnt absolutely NOTHING about openstack from this podcast.” Whilst I don’t agree I have some empathy; time and time again I’ve found myself hitting a brick wall recently when […]
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Show 229 – Network Break 32 – Juniper Innovation Showcase & More
Over-opinionated analysis on data network and IT Infrastructure. And virtual doughnuts.
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The post Show 229 – Network Break 32 – Juniper Innovation Showcase & More appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Cisco NAT Cheat Sheet
I’ve always had a difficult time when attempting to remember how to implement the different types of NAT available on ASA and IOS devices. It doesn’t help that between the two device families, there are three different syntax versions used in the configurations. I created the PDF linked below as a quick reference sheet. It […]
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The post Cisco NAT Cheat Sheet appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by John W Kerns.
Listen to Packet Pushers? Take Our 2015 Audience Survey!
Packet Pushers wants to know about you. Now, we don’t want to know about you specifically, because that would be creepy. We’re big believers in your privacy for the same reasons we’re believers in our own. But we do want to know about our audience as a whole. Data about our audience helps us figure out […]
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The post Listen to Packet Pushers? Take Our 2015 Audience Survey! appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Show 228 – Standards Bodies vs. Open Source with Dave Ward & Lauren Cooney
Cisco's Dave Ward and Lauren Cooney join Packet Pushers' co-hosts Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks for a discussion on the value of standards bodies in the age of open source software.
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The post Show 228 – Standards Bodies vs. Open Source with Dave Ward & Lauren Cooney appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
BGP RR Design – Part 2
This is a continuation from Part 1 9. ACME VPN RR’s Design: So the current total number of PE’s dedicated for VPN functionality is around 400 (2 PE’s in each POP x 200). A full iBGP mesh between 400 PE’s comes around 79,800 sessions ((400×399) /2). By introducing two VPN RR’s each PE will have only two iBGP sessions […]
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The post BGP RR Design – Part 2 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Diptanshu Singh.
BGP RR Design – Part 1
1. Introduction In this post we will be looking at large scale RR design by using a fictional ISP ACME as a reference. As usual, I am assuming that the reader has familiarity with BGP and basic RR concepts. 2. Setting the Stage ACME is a communications company providing communications and data services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers. […]
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The post BGP RR Design – Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Diptanshu Singh.
Network Break 31
Over-opinionated analysis on data network and IT Infrastructure. And virtual doughnuts.
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The post Network Break 31 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.