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Show 250 – How To Document A Network

A favorite topic among network engineers, documentation is a source of both wonder and horror. Network documentation is difficult to get right. How much detail is enough? How old is that diagram, really? Can't this be automated? Wait, the automated generator spit out *that*? In this show, the Packet Pushers along with former guest Dominik discuss their documentation experiences, good and bad. What have we gotten right? What have we gotten wrong? What's been worth the trouble? What was a waste of time? What did we wish we'd documented before we really needed it?

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Risky Business #378 — Mary Ann Davidson vs Krebs and Dowd

On this week's show we're chatting with Mark Dowd and Brian Krebs about Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson's somewhat odd blog post from earlier this week. In the post she laid into security researchers for violating Oracle's EULA when reverse engineering their products. The post got pulled, much drama, we sift through the ashes of that. Plus we chat to Brian about the daring $46.7m online heist against Ubiquiti Networks.

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Datanauts 006 – Assessing IPv6 Readiness

New IPv4 address space is almost gone from the global market. Organizations need to introduce IPv6 into their environments to ensure uninterrupted business operations with the rest of the world. Yet, implementing IPv6 is not as simple as firing up a routing scheme. How does an organization know if it’s ready? Special guest Ed Horley joins the Datanauts in this discussion.

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Risky Business #377 — Wassenaar back to drawing board, latest from BlackHat

On this week's show we discuss the BIS decision to ditch its car-a-zay plans for Wassenaar regulation, the latest car hacking news and more.

We also check in with Trey Ford in this week's feature slot. Trey was the General Manager of the BlackHat conference, these days he works at Rapid7, and he joins us to talk about the vibe in Vegas at this year's conference.

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Network Documentation Series: Port Mapping

In this post, I will be doing a brief commentary on creating and maintaining a physical port mapping spreadsheet. A port mapping spreadsheet is useful for keeping track of used/available ports on your network equipment, thoroughly documenting to which remote device each port connects, and generating configuration scripts to update port descriptions on the equipment. […]

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Citizens of Tech 012 – Biofuel Pyramid Cables

We start with a discussion of jail time. Jail. Time. And…147 MPH. Yeah. Eric tells the story. And then we hop into our show. Present Doomception: How modders got Doom to run inside of Doom http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/doomception-how-modders-got-doom-to-run-inside-of-doom/ Doom was open sourced in the 90’s. Folks have gone nuts porting it to all sorts of things. Now, […]

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Citizens of Tech 012 – Biofuel Pyramid Cables

We start with a discussion of jail time. Jail. Time. And…147 MPH. Yeah. Eric tells the story. And then we hop into our show. Present Doomception: How modders got Doom to run inside of Doom http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/doomception-how-modders-got-doom-to-run-inside-of-doom/ Doom was open sourced in the 90’s. Folks have gone nuts porting it to all sorts of things. Now, […]

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Show 248 – GPON For Campus Use Cases

Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) is an interesting alternative to traditional Ethernet in situations where Ethernet might be difficult or expensive to deploy. Network engineers Andy Burridge and Wallace Chase join us to talk about exactly what GPON is, potential use cases for the technology, and network design challenges.

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