While Packet Pushers were covering the Barcelona HP Discover conference and we got together with some of the folks attending the event on the show floor. The result is non-coherent discussion about whatever topics each person wanted to raise and discuss.
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I finally got around to reading The Mythical Man Month (MMM), a famous book on large-scale software development projects (think operating systems) written in 1975, revised in 1995, and still strikingly relevant today in the neighboring field of building and managing massive networks. While multiple points land directly on those of us working on massive […]
The post A Single Architect for Your Network appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Keith Tokash.
HP Networking has three solutions for overlay or virtual networking in the Data Centre. Each solution meets different customer needs Show Notes HP Networking has three products for network virtualization and each product addresses different customers needs. NSX Federation – physical networking integrating with NSX Distributed Cloud Networking (DCN) Virtual Cloud Networking (VCN) NSX Federations […]
The post PQ Show 39 – HP Networking – 3 Virtual Network Strategies Compared appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Let’s return to our simple four AS network to look at a number of issues with BGPSEC — the bits you won’t often hear discussed in just about any forum. Assume, for a moment, that AS65000 advertises some route, say 192.0.2.0/24, to AS65001, and not to AS65002. For whatever reason, a few days pater, the […]
The post BGPSEC: Replays, Timers, and Performance appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
A long time ago, Packet Pushers ran an OSPF Design Part 1 show. That show went after the default design guides that network engineers have been reading for years, making the big point that you can scale a single OSPF area quite large indeed. But…that’s not the entire story about OSPF areas. Areas still have their use cases, […]
The post Show 218 – OSPF Design Part 2 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Another week of looking critically and cynically at the technology market, especially networking and storage.
The post Network Break 25 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
HP Helion is the cloud platform HP is bringing to Enterprise for private cloud and used by HP to build their Helion public cloud. In this show, recorded at HP Discover as part of our show coverege, we talk about Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) for OpenStack that uses OpenFlow and OVSDB as a basis for implementing features in the physical network in OpenStack and Helion.
The post PQ Show 38 – HP Networking, Helion, OpenStack and Cloud Networking appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Recently, I had to look after PBTS on Cisco ASR9K platform and faced some issues, here are some results about my tests. PBTS has the same goal as CBTS on Cisco IOS (Class-Based Tunnel selection) but for Cisco IOS-XR. It provides a tool to direct traffic into specific RSVP-TE tunnels (in the future Segment-Routing tunnels) […]
The post Policy-based Tunnel Selection (PBTS) on Cisco IOS-XR appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Youssef El Fathi.
(yes, I know, it’s been a while… But it’s time to get back to this series) Up to this point in this series, we’ve been discussing the more technical aspects of how the Internet really works. Now I want to shift gears a little, and talk about some of the more political aspects — standards […]
The post HTIRW: Standards Bodies appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
This week are talking about the IETF and it's inability to cope with massive change in networking around SDN and NFV. For example, there are more than 70 drafts on NETCONF models for common networking tasks that often overlap or repeat the same work. What does this means for standards development ?
The post Show 217 – IETF, YANG Proliferation and the Lack of Cooperation and Co-ordination appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
It’s time for the Network Break! Sit back, grab a coffee, and 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.
The post Network Break 24 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
In my last post on the subject of BGPSEC, I explained the basic operation of the modifications to BGP itself. In this post, I’ll begin looking at some of the properties — both good and bad — of these extensions to BGP. To being, we’ll look at the simple network illustrated here, and see what […]
The post BGPSEC: Protections Offered appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
At HP Discover Barcelona 2014, the Packet Pushers had the chance to chat with Heather Giovanni, Craig Mills, and Chris Young about the HP 5400R and SDN in the campus. HP has a full line of switches and routers that some know about, and some just haven’t yet explored. The 5400R is a multi-slot chassis […]
The post Show 216 – HP & SDN In The Campus – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Neil Moore is the first and only 8 x CCIE in the world. Neil shares his CCIE preparation tricks, study methodology and many other important points.
The post Community Podcast: 8xCCIE Neil Moore and Orhan Ergun – CCIE Preparation appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Orhan Ergun.
Neil Moore is the first and only 8 x CCIE in the world. Neil shares his CCIE preparation tricks, study methodology and many other important points.
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Leon Adato, Technical Product Marketing Manager with SolarWinds is our guest blogger today, with a sponsored post — the third in a four-part series on the topic of alerting. In the last two posts in this series, I described two of the four (ok, really five) questions that monitoring professionals are frequently asked: Why did […]
The post 4 Inevitable Questions When Joining a Monitoring Group, Pt.3 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Sponsored Blog Posts.
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a relatively new standard for establishing BGP route origination. I wrote a brief introductory article here. Apologies for the self-promotion, but rather than rehash the basics here, I raise another issue that needs community attention: ARIN’s Relying Party Agreement (RPA: PDF link). Having said that, some basics are needed. […]
What makes a good API? A device providing an API is only the start of the story; if its unusable, or unreliable its useless. This post is a response to one of a couple of points I made about Kirk Byers’ recent post on Arista’s API and the comments that followed. Much respect to (and admiration for) Arista […]
The post The Attributes of a Great Network Device API appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
Updated 12-January-2015 to include survey form. I’m working on a series of “design and build” podcasts in 2015 for Packet Pushers. The idea is to take a network protocol, project, business challenge, reference architecture, etc. and talk through the why and how. Are you willing to be a guest to share your real-world experience? I’d […]
The post Guests Needed for Design + Build 2015 Podcasts appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Software defined networking (SDN) has arrived in the form of vendor released products. If you follow this show, you know that these products are largely incompatible. Certainly there’s no “one size fits all” when it comes to SDN technologies today. In SDN’s awkward tween years, what are network engineers trying to stay current to do? […]
The post Show 215 – SDN Training & Certifications with Wendell Odom appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.