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Coffee Break – Show 5

Our attendance at the Open Networking Symposium promotes a discussion of events there.

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Secret CEF Attributes, Part 5

So far we’ve explored some very cool features of CEF and the attributes we can push into the FIB to identify certain kinds of traffic. We can color the prefixes in the RIB and FIB with a particular IP-Precedence, QoS-group or traffic_index and we can then perform traffic monitoring, shaping and policing and packet marking […]

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Dan Massameno

Dan Massameno is the president and Chief Engineer at Leaf Point, a network engineering firm in Connecticut.

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Show 182 – The Future of Networking Part 1 As Inspired By #NFD7

At Networking Field Day 7, the delegates were treated to vendor demonstrations that challenged our thinking about the future of networking. Perhaps the industry is not agreed on just how we’ll implement and operate our networks in the coming years, but one thing is for certain. The landscape will be different. In this and the […]

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 2M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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NAT saves the day!

Introduction NAT is bad, it breaks end to end connectivity. It’s misused as a security tool. Using NAT kills kittens. Yes yes, we all know that. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t valid use cases for NAT and when NAT can save the day. What was the problem? Imagine that you have a device that […]

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ddib

Daniel Dib is a network engineer and CCIE #37149. He mainly works with enterprise networks and network design. You can find his original content at lostintransit.se and on Twitter @Danieldibswe

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Coffee Break – Show 4

This week Andrew & Greg are joined Howard Marks whose abundance of commentary leads to a surfeit of opinions on the lack of anything happening at Mobile World Congress. Show Notes MWC – Wearable computing on the rise? Netflix and Comcast: Is this the first Network Neutrality domino to fall? Frontier customer complaints drop nearly […]

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Coffee Break – Show 4

[player] This week Andrew & Greg are joined Howard Marks whose abundance of commentary leads to a surfeit of opinions on the lack of anything happening at Mobile World Congress. Show Notes MWC – Wearable computing on the rise? Netflix and Comcast: Is this the first Network Neutrality domino to fall? Frontier customer complaints drop […]

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Coffee Break – Show 4

[player] This week Andrew & Greg are joined Howard Marks whose abundance of commentary leads to a surfeit of opinions on the lack of anything happening at Mobile World Congress. Show Notes MWC – Wearable computing on the rise? Netflix and Comcast: Is this the first Network Neutrality domino to fall? Frontier customer complaints drop... Read more »

INTER-AS VPNs and Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC) Part-2

In the first article of this series I mentioned from Inter AS VPN Option A only. This article will be about Option B , C and Carrier Supporting Carrier VPNs. I assume from the readers basic knowledge of these VPNs.Only design points will be highlighted here since my intended audiences are the network designers and […]

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Orhan Ergun

Orhan Ergun, CCIE, CCDE, is a network architect mostly focused on service providers, data centers, virtualization and security.

He has more than 10 years in IT, and has worked on many network design and deployment projects.

In addition, Orhan is a:

Blogger at Network Computing.
Blogger and podcaster at Packet Pushers.
Manager of Google CCDE Group.
On Twitter @OrhanErgunCCDE

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Has SDN Changed Networking?

Software Defined Everything, NFV, OpenFlow, SDDC and Orchestrators are buzz words of DC networking. An interesting point would be to check whether these proposed solutions change our understanding of DC Networks? A good analogy to start with is chassis based switches (e.g Cisco’s Cat6500, Juniper’s EX8200). Regardless of how convoluted it may seem, any networking […]

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Karim Jamali

Karim Jamali

Karim is a network engineer, blogger, and CCIE #25064. His main focus areas are Data Center, Virtualization and Security..Karim has been working in the industry for more than 6 years covering both pre-sales & post-sales functions.

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Show 181 – Intro to I2RS with Joel Halpern & Russ White

Traditionally, routing protocols running on a router will perform calculations to determine the best forwarding path. The RIB with be then populated with next-hop information. Ultimately, that information will be populated into the FIB (forwarding information base), the FIB taking the guesswork of how to get to the next hop and easing CPU utilization on […]

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 2M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Orhan Ergun CCDE Story

Once I decided for the CCDE exam I was thinking it is a hard challenge but surprisingly I will say it is not as much as you think.This is good news and you started to smile ? Hope once you finished the article you continue to it     Yes it is not since I […]

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Orhan Ergun

Orhan Ergun, CCIE, CCDE, is a network architect mostly focused on service providers, data centers, virtualization and security.

He has more than 10 years in IT, and has worked on many network design and deployment projects.

In addition, Orhan is a:

Blogger at Network Computing.
Blogger and podcaster at Packet Pushers.
Manager of Google CCDE Group.
On Twitter @OrhanErgunCCDE

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Avoiding Bogus Alerts Using AWS-Based Proxies & Outsourced BGP for Distributed Monitoring

Jeff Behl, Chief Network Architect with LogicMonitor, is our guest author for this post. Jeff has been in the IT industry for over 20 years.  He has an extensive background on architecting enterprise networks and data centers and brings real world knowledge around network operations from start-ups to enterprise companies. These companies range from UC […]

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Sponsored Blog Posts

The Packet Pushers work with our vendors to present a limited number of sponsored blog posts to our community. This is one. If you're a vendor and think you have some blog content you'd like to sponsor, contact us via [email protected].

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Are certifications tests still worth your resources in the day of Hybrid IT?

Let me start by laying out this disclaimer:  This is in no way intended to devalue or criticize any vendor or vendor neutral certified folks or programs. Since the mid-1990s I’ve done many certification programs. In fact, I’ve actually lost track and  I can’t even remember them all, so this is not a commentary by someone […]

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Nick Buraglio

Nick has been involved in the networking industry for the last 16 years. In the past, Nick has been employed by the University of Illinois as a Lead Network Engineer working on research and HPC networks, campus networks and wide area connectivity. In this role, Nick also functioned as the Lead Network Engineer for the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) broadband project of the year, UC2B, and helped to deploy production IPv6 and testbed OpenFlow networks at large scale. Additionally, Nick has held Network Engineering [and by necessity network security] positions at early regional broadband internet providers as well as at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Nick has participated in the SCinet working group on several occasions and has been involved in Research, Education and high performance networking and security for the last 11 Continue reading

Secret CEF Attributes, Part 4

In Parts 1, Part 2 and Part 3 we saw we can use the CEF table to express all sorts of different QoS policies. In Part 4 we describe how to attach a policy to the packet that will follow it around the network. Like many policies (security, shaping, etc.) it’s best to classify the […]

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Dan Massameno

Dan Massameno is the president and Chief Engineer at Leaf Point, a network engineering firm in Connecticut.

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Healthy Paranoia Show 22: The Three Ring Circus of Net Neutrality

Ladies and gentleman, unicorns of all ages, get ready for the greatest podcast on earth, Healthy Paranoia. Where the email is always encrypted and the firewalls are ever stateful. On this episode, we’ll be discussing Net Neutrality. Joining us is Sherry Lichtenberg, Principal for Telecommunications at the National Regulatory Research Institute; Andrew Gallo, network architect […]

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Mrs. Y

Snarkitecht at Island of Misfit Toys

Mrs. Y is a recovering Unix engineer working in network security. Also the host of Healthy Paranoia and official nerd hunter. She likes long walks in hubsites, traveling to security conferences and spending time in the Bat Cave. Sincerely believes that every problem can be solved with a "for" loop. When not blogging or podcasting, can be found using up her 15 minutes in the Twittersphere or Google+ as @MrsYisWhy.

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Coffee Break – Show 3

Mike Fratto joins us this week to talk about the news of the week on IPv4, Broadband Performance, Net Neutrality, IBM, SDN and more.

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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