Network Break 55: Microsoft’s Switch, Security Gets Hotter
Network Break 55 examines new switch releases from Microsoft, Arista & Dell, a white-hot security market, Cisco security bugs, and why we don't need to get worked up about cloud outages any more.
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Skynet Barbie, Tablet Babysitters: This Week On The Internet
This Week On The Internet looks at an AI Barbie, the effect of mobile devices on young kids, how to fight surveillance, and funny cooking advice.
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Show 256 – Design & Build 6 – VXLAN Use Cases
VXLAN is an encapsulation protocol you can use for network virtualization. We'll discuss VXLAN use cases, pros and cons, and design considerations.
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PQ Show 56 – VMware NSX In Production – Sponsored
This sponsored Priority Queue looks at the realities of using NSX in production, discusses practical customer use cases for network virtualization, and examines issues raised by listeners about NSX.
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An EIGRP Scaling Puzzle
This last week I received an email from a friend asking about scaling. The situation is this: a particular company has well over 100 EIGRP routers on a single L2 service from a provider. Will this scale? What’s more interesting than simply asking about scale, though, is to ask the “why” question — no matter […]
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Cisco Targets SMBs In WLAN War With HP/Aruba
Cisco's new WLAN product, Mobility Express, targets customers who want simple deployment, and gives Cisco a weapon against HP/Aruba.
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Risky Business #384 — Mark Dowd talks AirDrop pwnage, XCode iOS scandal
We've got a great show for you this week. Mark Dowd drops by to talk about the recent spate of Trojaned iOS apps that made it into Apple's China App Store. We also talk to him about his awesome AirDrop bug. How did it work?
This week's sponsor segment is actually a real cracker. Context IS consultant David Klein tells us how he owned an entire cloud platform by enumerating some shitty 90s-style bugs in some third party libraries they were using. It's comedy gold. This cloud platform that uses security at a selling point. It's bad.
Increased Security Spending: Good Money After Bad?
A couple of recent analyst reports tout significant growth in the information security market. But More security spending on products doesn’t necessarily mean better outcomes for customers.
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Network Break 54: HP Blues, Listener Corrections
Network Break 54 examines HP's anticipated layoffs, financial news from startups, and listener feedback on what we got wrong about an Apple/Cisco partnership.
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The Open Networking Cheat Sheet
A variety of open projects target the network. This cheat sheet keeps track of who's doing what at OpenDaylight, OpenFlow, OVS, OpenStack, ONOS, and Open Compute.
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Starbucks On Dune, WiFi Allergies: This Week On The Internet
From pumpkin spice on Dune to WiFi allergies to a giant robot fight and more, here's some interesting stories that crossed my browser this week.
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Show 255 – Future of Networking with Douglas Comer
What is the Future of Networking according to Douglas Comer ?
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Risky Business #383 — Inside FireEye’s research gag
On this week's show we take a look at what the hell it happening in Germany, where FireEye sought and obtained an ex parte injunction against a bunch of security researchers over a presentation they were about to do at 44Con. We speak with infosec lawyer Alex Urbelis -- he was at 44Con when all this came to light and he shares his insights.
Datanauts 009 – The Silo Series: Designing A vSwitch
Today, networks extend into hypervisors via vSwitches. Network engineers ignore vSwitches at their peril. At the same time, virtualization engineers ignore the physical network at theirs. Let’s work together to configure a vSwitch as good as it can be.
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Brocade Launches SDN Controller 2.0 Built On OpenDaylight
Brocade has launched version 2.0 of its SDN Controller, a commercial distribution of OpenDaylight, the open source project. The company also announced two applications for topology visualization and managing flows.
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Network Break 53: Apple At Work, OpenFlow Rising
Network Break 53 bites into Apple's latest announcements, wonders at Intel abandoning a science competition, ponders FireEye's reaction to vulnerability research, and opines on OpenFlow's rise in the network.
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Cisco FlexVPN DMVPN, Part 1 – Overview and Design
This post will introduce a new type of DMVPN – FlexVPN, unofficially called “DMVPN phase 4″ . We will go through the basic building blocks of Cisco FlexVPN DMVPN and some of the design best practices for a typical enterprise WAN network. FlexVPN Introduction FlexVPN is a configuration framework (a collection of CLI/API commands) aimed to […]
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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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