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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The post Network Break 21 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
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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The post 4 Inevitable Questions When Joining a Monitoring Group, Pt. 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Sponsored Blog Posts.
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 post SDN, Network Virtualization and Hypervisors appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Sponsored Blog Posts.
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.
Show 212 – HP Networking in the Data Centre – Sponsored
In today's sponsored podcast, HP Networking looks to educate network engineers about HP’s data center portfolio and technologies that make it a formidable choice for architecting today’s data center networks. Tune in to learn how HP is helping customers develop Data Center solutions that deal with today and tomorrow’s challenges.
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The post Show 212 – HP Networking in the Data Centre – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Using ssldump to Decode/Decrypt SSL/TLS Packets
Who needs the Wireshark GUI right; let’s do this at the command line and be grown up about things. This is a straight copy of my popular Using Wireshark to Decode/Decrypt SSL/TLS Packets post, only using ssldump to decode/decrypt SSL/TLS packets at the CLI instead of Wireshark. Aside from the obvious advantages, immediacy and efficiency of a CLI tool, ssldump also […]
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The post Using ssldump to Decode/Decrypt SSL/TLS Packets appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
Show News: Network Down Stories and The Nightmare Before Christmas
Last year, we published two shows of horror stories about network outages and these shows generated a HUGE response from the audience. People emailed us about laughing, head nodding and “that happened to me”. Because you loved it, we are going to do it again. Because of time constraints the format will be a little […]
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The post Show News: Network Down Stories and The Nightmare Before Christmas appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Cisco free webinars.
Hello my friends. I wish I would not be banned for this advertisement :). I think this might be interesting for packet pushers audience and worth posting. At fisrt legal notice should be written :). All information provided in this post are my subjective understanding of this project. I am not marketing guy, so it […]
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The post Cisco free webinars. appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Michał Janowski.
HTIRW: Provider Peering and Revenue Streams (Part 2)
This is a continuation from last week’s post on provider peering streams. Second Example: Customer to Noncustomer Assume traffic is coming in from A and is destined to M. How can AS64501 maximize revenue stream in this situation? There is only place to make money (the [A,C] link), and there is one place where its […]
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Helpful Concepts for the Fresh New Geek
Someone recently asked me to be a professional mentor, an occurrence that becomes more surreal the longer I consider it in its implications and entirety. So far the recipient of my educational transgressions appears content, but the experience has reminded me of several ranty moments I’ve had over the years regarding what new network geeks […]
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The post Helpful Concepts for the Fresh New Geek appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Keith Tokash.
Network Break 19
Continuing our regular look at the news in Networking and Cloud.
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The post Network Break 19 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Halloween Career Advice from the Damned
“Now, as you look through this document you’ll see that I’ve underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make them stand out. They’re all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I’ve taken, then maybe you […]
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The post Halloween Career Advice from the Damned appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Glen Kemp.
Show 210 – SPB Implementation Fundamentals
Dominik and Ricki Cook join Packet Pushers Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks in a hands-on exploration of Shortest Path Bridging, IEEE 802.1aq. Most of us have had our hands on Avaya gear that does SPB — Ethan in the lab, and Dominik + Ricki in production environments. We go through the basic goals, setup, and commands […]
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The post Show 210 – SPB Implementation Fundamentals appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.