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PQ Show 52 – Using Ostinato To Craft Your Own Packets

If software developers and network driver writers can make their own packets, can’t you? Ah, right...you’re not a developer. Your coding-fu is weak, as is mine. Still, there’s hope for us in an open source tool called Ostinato. Ostinato calls itself “Wireshark in reverse.” With Ostinato, you can make your own packets, custom crafting them any way you like. Today on the Packet Pushers Priority Queue, we’re talking with one of the Ostinato creators, Srivats P.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Show 241 – Smart Labs on Public Cloud with Ravello – Sponsored

The Packet Pushers discuss Smart Labs on AWS & Google using Ravello's nested virtualization with Gil Hoffer, VP of R&D, & Navin Thadani, Sr. VP of Products.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Network Break 40

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. We’ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own. Cisco Execs Quit, Naturally. The predicted leadership exodus at Cisco has started. Leadership […]

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Network Break 40

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. We’ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own. Cisco Execs Quit, Naturally. The predicted leadership exodus at Cisco has started. Leadership […]

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Citizens of Tech 007 – Liquid Photon Kerbal Computing

On this Citizens of Tech, we discuss the Kerbal space program, waterproofing your phone without a case, Scrabble letting down humanity, IPv6’s importance to gaming according to Microsoft, light speed computing, high dynamic range TVs, liquid metal antennas, and more.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Datanauts 001 – Hyper Convergence with Scott D. Lowe

A brand new podcast -- Datanauts -- has launched! Here's the summary of episode 1. The latest form factor, hyper-converged infrastructure, seems to be storming through the data center market like a thundering donkey with a rainbow laser cannon. Join the Datanauts as they pick apart the pros and cons of hyper-converged, ramble on about architecture and design challenges, and shine a piercing light into a dark and murky corner of the next generation data center!

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Datanauts 001 – Hyper Convergence with Scott D. Lowe

A brand new podcast -- Datanauts -- has launched! Here's the summary of episode 1. The latest form factor, hyper-converged infrastructure, seems to be storming through the data center market like a thundering donkey with a rainbow laser cannon. Join the Datanauts as they pick apart the pros and cons of hyper-converged, ramble on about architecture and design challenges, and shine a piercing light into a dark and murky corner of the next generation data center!

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Datanauts 001 – Hyper Convergence with Scott D. Lowe

A brand new podcast -- Datanauts -- has launched! Here's the summary of episode 1. The latest form factor, hyper-converged infrastructure, seems to be storming through the data center market like a thundering donkey with a rainbow laser cannon. Join the Datanauts as they pick apart the pros and cons of hyper-converged, ramble on about architecture and design challenges, and shine a piercing light into a dark and murky corner of the next generation data center!

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Campus LAN Design – A Different Approach

Throughout my career I have implemented a pretty large number of standard Cisco campus LAN designs. You know the model; a hierarchical one with access switches aggregating to a distribution layer, which then aggregates to a fast core switching layer. Pieces of the hierarchy can be collapsed into one another in situations where, for example, due to […]

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Andy Burridge

Andy Burridge

Andy spends his days working as a network engineer for a solutions provider. Andy also mostly spends his evenings working as a network engineer for a solutions provider.

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Leveraging SD-WAN for Skype for Business Enterprise Voice

This guest blog post is by Daniel Teichman, Senior Manager, Product Marketing; and Brad Chapin, Director, Strategic Alliances, at Sonus. We thank Sonus for being a sponsor. Software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology is a viable option for organizations that have to provide real-time Unified Communications (UC), such as Microsoft’s Skype for Business Enterprise Voice, […]

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

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Top Tech CEOs Make 190 Times As Much As You

The New York Times and Equilar recently published a study of the 200 highest-paid CEOs of publicly traded companies. Twenty-two executives from the tech industry made the list, including leaders from hardware and software vendors, telco and cable companies, and Web giants. As you might expect, it pays to be a CEO. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella […]

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

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Show 240 – Software Defined WAN – Night of Nerdery – Live From New York – Sponsored

A live show recorded with a panel of customers who are well advanced into projects to deploy SD-WAN in their Enterprise networks. The Packet Pushers were pleased to be invited to host and record a live recording in New York in partnership with Viptela.

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Network Documentation Series: Logical Diagram

In this article, I will do a walk-through of a logical network diagram. As I also said in the Physical Diagram article: I prefer to use the term “logical” instead of “L3″ because it is more easily understood by somebody unfamiliar with the OSI model. It also removes the assumption (made by many non-technical people) […]

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John W Kerns

John is a network and systems engineer based in the Los Angeles/San Diego area. His background is in two traditionally stovepiped skill sets; systems administration and switching/routing/security. Most of his time is spent as an implementation engineer for a medium sized SoCal VAR. You can visit his blog at blog.packetsar.com or follow him on Twitter @PackeTsar

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PQ Show 51 – LightCyber Magna Active Breach Detection – Sponsored

LightCyber Magna Active Breach Detection automatically detects active attackers by identifying the anomalous operational behaviors sourced from compromised hosts in your network. By focusing on actual attack behaviors, and not technical artifacts like signatures, Magna provides accurate breach indicators and eliminates excessive false positives.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Citizens of Tech 006 – Saga of Lucimia Special, Part 2

On this week's Citizens of Tech podcast, we conclude our special on how complex games are developed. Regular host Eric Sutphen (@zutfen) and special guest Jeff Pugliese (@tpyowritr) continue their interview with game developers Tim Anderson and Giovanni Martello from Saga of Lucimia. Topics include community, archetypes, and character progression.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Citizens of Tech 006 – Saga of Lucimia Special, Part 2

On this week's Citizens of Tech podcast, we conclude our special on how complex games are developed. Regular host Eric Sutphen (@zutfen) and special guest Jeff Pugliese (@tpyowritr) continue their interview with game developers Tim Anderson and Giovanni Martello from Saga of Lucimia. Topics include community, archetypes, and character progression.

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Managed power supplies and how to automate your branch network

One of the worst parts of the day has to be calling AT&T or Comcast to request a dispatch to a branch office or to check up on a problem internet circuit.  Yelling out “Technical Support” to try and get past the prompts.  The first question I get asked every time, “Did you reboot the modem?”. […]

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William Marti

William Marti

Network Admin for the last 5 years at a large NA based food distributor. Graduated with a Bachelors in Information Systems

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