4 Inevitable Questions When Joining a Monitoring Group, Pt. 2
Leon Adato, Technical Product Marketing Manager with SolarWinds is our guest blogger today, with a sponsored post in a four-part series on the topic of alerting. In the first part of this series, Leon explained how to answer the first of four (ok, really 5) questions that monitoring professionals are inevitably asked once they join […]
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Configure a DMVPN Spoke behind a Home router/modem
I’ve come across this scenario on multiple occasions now. Your company wants to set up a demo at a “customers” location. Your demo is reliant on its own router talking back to HQ to pull necessary data for the program in question. Unfortunately your internet connection at the “demo” site is sitting behind a NAT. […]
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The post Configure a DMVPN Spoke behind a Home router/modem appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Korey.
APIs, APIs…a look at Arista’s eAPI
Arista switches have an API known as eAPI. In this article, I will discuss some of the basics of how eAPI operates, how to connect to it, and how to gather network information using it. Basic eAPI operation eAPI uses JSON-RPC over HTTPS. What this means in simpler terms is that the communication to and […]
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The post APIs, APIs…a look at Arista’s eAPI appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Kirk Byers.
Network Break 22
Cisco Loves and Hates Net Neutrality, SDN WAN continues to grow and Analysts as AWS puppy dogs - drooling, licking themselves and barking at the AWS reinvent conference.
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The post Network Break 22 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
The changing of the guard: Telecom Style-Part 1
The sale of a incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) aka the local telephone company can be much more complicated than one might think, ordinary folks anyway. Networking & IT professionals most likely have a different viewpoint as migrations are a fundamental part of the IT field. Such a transaction becomes more complicated when triple play […]
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The Linux ip Command – An Ostensive Overview
It came to my attention and I was rather surprised to learn a while back that the Linux ifconfig command has been deprecated for quite some time by the Linux ip command set. The ip command isn’t new to me and I’ve recognised its advantages for some time but considering its ‘elevated’ status I thought […]
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The post The Linux ip Command – An Ostensive Overview appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
Stop Doing Post Mortems & Root Cause Analysis With indeni
Indeni has technology that can predict known types of network failures using pre-mortem analysis.
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Show 213 – What’s Next for Avaya Enterprise Wireless – Sponsored
Unlike Gen Z’ers, who have never known a world without Wi-Fi (or Minecraft), some of us get to see technology come full circle. Join Alan Hase, VP of Avaya Networking, and the Packet Pushers as they outline (and relish and pontificate) how this phenomenon is playing out in WLAN and Mobility today. Alan highlights how […]
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The post Show 213 – What’s Next for Avaya Enterprise Wireless – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
BGPSEC: Basic Operation
I’m going to take a little break from my other two series to inject a short series on BGPSEC. I’ll return to HTIRW and RFCs you need to know shortly. BGPSEC is a set of standards currently under consideration in the IETF to secure BGP beyond the origin AS – in other words, to secure […]
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Network Break 21
IT Talent Shortage and Whiny CIOs, Podcasts Make Money, ACI vs NSX wobbles and Dell busts some moves at its conference.
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4 Inevitable Questions When Joining a Monitoring Group, Pt. 1
Leon Adato, Technical Product Marketing Manager with SolarWinds is our guest blogger today, with a sponsored post on the topic of alerting. The Four Questions For people who are interested in monitoring, there is a leap that you make when you go from watching systems that YOU care about, to monitoring systems that other people […]
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Show 211 – Should IT Engineers Get Fired For Production-Impacting Mistakes?
First off, apologies for the serialization error. We know, the last show was #212 in the title but #211 on the filename, when it should have been #211 through and through. We get it, and we’re very sorry, especially to you OCD folks who are twitching uncontrollably right now. Don’t fire us. Why didn’t we […]
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The post Show 211 – Should IT Engineers Get Fired For Production-Impacting Mistakes? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Network Design Concepts Part-3
In the first article of the series, reliability and resiliency are covered. We should know that whatever device, link type or software you choose eventually they will fail. Thus designing resilient system is one of the most critical aspects of IT. I mentioned that one way of providing resiliency is redundancy. If we have redundant […]
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The post Network Design Concepts Part-3 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Orhan Ergun.
Kicking the Tires on Cisco’s onePK
Recently, I experimented with Cisco’s onePK. What follows are observations on onePK, as well as some details on the mechanics of creating a onePK connection. For those of you that are not familiar with onePK–it is an API created by Cisco that they support on various IOS, IOS-XR, and IOS-XE devices. onePK was announced in 2012 […]
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The post Kicking the Tires on Cisco’s onePK appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Kirk Byers.
SDN, Network Virtualization and Hypervisors
Packet Pushers sponsor Pluribus Networks sent along Robert Drost to bring us this blog post. He’s a pretty interesting guy. Robert Drost was a Sr. Distinguished Engineer and Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems. Robert has extensive hardware experience, including over 90 patents and a 17 year career in high-performance computing systems. Among other recognitions, […]
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The Routing Resilience Manifesto
If you run BGP in your network, you need to think about BGP security. It might not seem like it’s important if you’re not a provider, but two points to consider: First, if you’re connected to the Internet, making certain your little corner of the Internet is secure is important Second, no matter where you […]
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Network Break 20
This week we walk through the news of the week (there wasn't much).
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The post Network Break 20 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
How the CCIE changed my life
Everything is so gloomy these days isn’t it? SDN is going to put us out of a job so you have to learn Python or go make burgers (been there done that). The CCIE is now irrelevant so why would anyone pursue it? While there are some good arguments for its demise there are also […]
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The post How the CCIE changed my life appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Keith Humphreys.
Network Break 19 – Fixed
Note: We had an audio problem and Network Break 19 is now fixed.
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The post Network Break 19 – Fixed appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Using Puppet to Configure F5 Network’s LTM via SOAP
You’ll like this, and you won’t; and that reflects on how I’ve felt variously about this task/burden. So, I’ve spent three weeks, almost full-time, on the work necessary to use Puppet to configure F5 Networks LTM via SOAP. Not just a few Pools and Virtual Servers; the whole box, from scratch. I knew this would be […]
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The post Using Puppet to Configure F5 Network’s LTM via SOAP appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.