Deploying OpenStack Ken Pepple OpenStack is a wide ranging initiative started by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 designed to provide open source software to build and manage IaaS cloud services. What’s often missing in open source projects like OpenStack is a definitive guide to the release schedule, the different pieces, how the different pieces interact, […]
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. It's like a soundtrack for the network industry.
In the time it takes to have coffee break. Or so.
The post The Coffee Break – Show 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. It's like a soundtrack for the network industry.
In the time it takes to have coffee break. Or so.
The post The Coffee Break – Show 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers.
The number of overlay technologies available today for the datacenter are numerous and highly functional. The flexibility they provide enables security zone enforcement and physical portability of hosts more seamlessly (among other benefits). However, a few risks in deploying popular layer 2 overlay technologies are vendor-lockdown, scalability, specialized hardware required to mitigate bottleneck points, and […]
The post Using VRFs to maintain security zones in an Layer 3 datacenter network appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Zugnoni.
A place for anyone to start a podcast with the Packet Pushers.
The post Introducing Community Channel – Insert Your Podcast Here appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
A place for anyone to start a podcast with the Packet Pushers.
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Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Microsoft Hyper-V and integrates with your existing Nexus 1000V deployment. In this episode we talk with Appaji Malla and Balaji Sivasubramanian from the Hyper-V Product team on the architecture of the product and platform.
The post Show 178 – Cisco Nexus 1000v and Microsoft Hyper-V appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Cloud Architecture Patterns Bill Wilder Networks support applications. Okay, that might seem a little obvious, but it needs to be said from time to time. In that vein, I often find it useful to get a better grip on the applications people are putting on networks, and how they expect the network to behave. In […]
In this article we are going to see two features that improve the load-balancing in the MLPS Core. Why? In the networking when dealing with redundancy of links or paths we are facing the polarization issue. This problem happens when one of the link is congested. Let’s take the example of LAGs, if the hashing […]
The post FAT or Entropy Label? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Youssef El Fathi.
The Internet has a trust problem. With the recent revelations of government surveillance, traffic interception and modification, compromised products, and suspect algorithms, we have serious problems. Greg and Ethan spoke to this briefly on Show 175 regarding the pwning of several firewall products by the NSA, but the issue goes much further than just compromised […]
The post Restoring Trust in the Internet – Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Jonathan Strine.
A couple of times in the past month I’ve been asked where a SSL VPN appliance should be deployed in relation to the firewall. In both cases it was relating to the Juniper Secure Access / MAG platform, but best practice should apply equally to any IPSEC or SSL VPN platform, so I thought it […]
The post One leg too few? Architectural Best Practice on SSL VPNs appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Glen Kemp.
More Engineers talking about their day-to-day problems. We found Justin Seabrook Rocha and Shawn McGuire lurking in the #PacketPushers ITC channel complaining about stuff. Now they are doing it in front to a microphone. Bring the real world to your real world. Guests Shawn McGuire bigbash on the #Packetpushers channel on irc.freenode.net Twitter : @mcguiresm Blog: http://8bitsbytes.com […]
The post Show 177 – Current Practices appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Tunneling is the Duct Tape of Networking..It is interesting to realize that a big chunk of network features in Data Center, Service Providers and Enterprises use tunneling in one form or another..It would be fun to imagine a “world” without tunnels! Most known MPLS applications are tunneling techniques, for instance in a VPLS/L3VPN Scenario the […]
The post The Secret Sauce for Network Services appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Karim Jamali.
Packet Pushers is a big part of Greg’s & Ethan’s lives and the show is continuing to grow in 2014. We learn a lot, laugh a lot, and work hard to bring you the show every week and fresh content on the blog site. Despite enjoying editing and writing along with producing the podcast, the […]
The post Please Fill Out Our 2014 Audience Survey appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Only one change or link flap can cause one hour or more traffic drop. It is weird, right? But this is true. In this article BGP Path Hunting/ Path Exploration behavior will be shown, BGP route flap dampening and its variants will be explained and how only one interface flap can cause very long down […]
The post BGP Path Hunting/Exploration appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Orhan Ergun.
Network engineers keep hearing about Software Defined Networking (SDN) and wonder, “Will I have to become a programmer to keep my job?” The answer is, “Probably not.” However, there’s still an awful lot to be said for network engineers becoming familiar with the tools of network automation. There’s a gain in productivity to be had […]
The post Show 176 – Intro to Python & Automation for Network Engineers appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Let dreamers dream what worlds they please Those Edens can’t be found The sweetest flowers The fairest trees Are grown in solid ground We’re neither pure nor wise nor good We’ll do the best we know We’ll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow And make our garden grow These […]
The post SDN 2014 – Make Our Garden Grow – Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
Almost twenty years ago, I began my career in networking. HP hubs and routers, no VLANs, one router PHY port per subnet. From there I installed an ATM backbone using LANE in the venerable Catalyst 5500 platform, then moved on to GigE in 3750 stacks and finally to 10G Nexuses (Nexa, Nexi?). I’ve seen WiFi […]
The post Farewell to Networking appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.
That’s right, it’s time for another surveillance-free, EFF-approved episode of Healthy Paranoia! Where the passwords are salted and the packets are always encrypted. This episode is hosted by the infamous Mrs. Y, queen of metadata and official privacy advocate for Healthy Paranoia, and recorded in the NSA-proofed SCIF with Grecs, of Novainfosec.com and Shmoocon Firetalks. […]
The post Healthy Paranoia Show 21: Windows Forensics with Andrew Case appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Mrs. Y.