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Cisco ASA Virtualization with Mixed-Mode Security Contexts

The Cisco ASA firewall has supported multiple security contexts since version 7 was released in 2005. This feature allows you to configure multiple independent logical firewalls in the same ASA hardware.  When version 8.5(1) released in July 2011, support was added for mixed mode firewalls in which both routed and transparent contexts can reside on […]

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Eyvonne Sharp

Eyvonne Sharp

Eyvonne Sharp is a senior network engineer for a large healthcare enterprise where her focus is security and data center architecture. Before working in the enterprise, she spent 10 years working for small VARs and integrators in the SMB space. Eyvonne blogs at esharp.net and you can connect with her on twitter @SharpNetwork

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Show 152 – Nexus Announcements from Cisco Live 2013 with Ron Fuller – Sponsored

Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro are joined by Brent Salisbury for a discussion with Cisco’s Nexus-geek-at-large Ron Fuller about a whole lot of things happening in the Cisco data center product line in this sponsored edition of the Packet Pushers Podcast. First up, we review the announcement from the previous Cisco Live (London 2013) about […]

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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 3M 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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Healthy Paranoia Show 14: Digital Forensics and Incident Response with Andrew Case

Get ready for another nerdilicious episode of Healthy Paranoia featuring Andrew Case, digital forensics researcher and a core developer for the Volatility Framework. Liam Randall joins Mrs. Y. as they discuss topics such as: The difference between forensics and incident response. Malware analysis vs. reverse engineering. Why you should treat a compromised system like a […]

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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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PQ Show 28 – UCS Director Overview – Sponsored

In this show recorded in a small little room with a great big fan (which we were mostly able to edit out) in the “Meet the Expert” lounge at Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando, Packet Pushers Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks discuss Cisco’s UCS Director product (formerly Cloupia) with folks from the UCS Director team. […]

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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 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

The post PQ Show 28 – UCS Director Overview – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.

PQ Show 27 – Cisco XNC Controller – First Look – Sponsored

Cisco eXtensible Network Controller (XNC) can provide greater business agility, through a cost-effective, scalable, Software-Defined Network (SDN)-based approach to traffic monitoring. What is the XNC? What’s it for? Comparing XNC Controller to OpenDaylight. What’s the same? What’s a value-add? What are the northbound capabilities of XNC? Southbound? Let’s give some examples of what we can […]

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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.

The post PQ Show 27 – Cisco XNC Controller – First Look – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.

Preparing For Technology Trends

I spent most of last week at Cisco Live. This is a large and well-known technology conference. While attending the keynote sessions, I kept wondering how many people take the time to future-proof themselves. I know we all have a lot of work just educating ourselves on the technology of today. However, I have to […]

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Paul Stewart

Paul is a Network and Security Engineer, Trainer and Blogger who enjoys understanding how things really work. With nearly 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Paul has helped many organizations build, maintain and secure their networks and systems. Paul also writes technical content at PacketU.

The post Preparing For Technology Trends appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.

The value of Soft Skills

No, this isn’t SDN-related, I mean the soft skills. The interpersonal skills. The skills that will help you get ahead in your career.   This is my opinion on the matter, so take it all with a huge grain of salt.   The biggest thing that a lot of people forget is that there’s more […]

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Ken Matlock

Ken Matlock

Ken Matlock is a networking veteran of 19 years. He has worked in many fields in the networking industry including Service Provider, Retail, and Healthcare. When he's not fixing the problems of the networking world, he can be found studying for his CCIE, spending time with his family, and trying to chase the ever-elusive sleep.

He can be found on twitter @KenMatlock , email at [email protected] , irc.freenode.net #PacketPushers, or the occasional blog or forum post.

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The Realpolitik of technical pre-sales

I’m the technical guy in the room, but yes, you could call me a salesperson if you were feeling vicious.  I work with many vendors and my job in Technical Pre-Sales is to pitch their solutions to the Enterprise network administrator. Some vendors have amazing products, some of them not so much. Walking the line […]

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Glen Kemp

Professional Services Consultant at Fortinet, Inc

Professional Services Consultant. Designing & deploying “keep the bad guys out” technologies. Delivering elephants and not hunting unicorns.

Please free to add me on , follow me on Twitter or check out my other blogs on Fortinet Blog, sslboy.net and SearchNetworking.

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Masterclass – Tcpdump – Parameters

This Masterclass article series aimes to provide in-depth technical information on the installation, usage and operation of the classic and supremely popular tcpdump network traffic analysis program including alternatives, running tcpdump as a process, building expressions, understanding output and more. I’ve covered the Basics previously, will cover Parameters here, then filter Expressions and finally Interpreting Output. […]

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Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and has never been too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He's now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He's worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. Working with switches and routers pretty much from the start he now also has a thirst for application delivery, SDN, virtualisation and related products and technologies. He's published a number of F5 Networks related books and is a regular contributor at DevCentral.

The post Masterclass – Tcpdump – Parameters appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.

PQ Show 26 – Cisco Live Network, IPv6 and Hugs All Round – Sponsored

Guests Patrick Warichet Alain Fiocco @alainfiocco Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch Kumar Reddy @kumarreddy Show Notes You can follow the Cisco IPv6 Lab Team on Twitter at @cisco6lab “Happy Eyeballs” – RFC6555 – Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555 Test your IPv6 http://test-ipv6.com/ IPvFoo – https://code.google.com/p/ipvfoo/ 6lab.cisco.com/stats Sessions on Cisco Live 365 from Orlando, 2013. […]

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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.

The post PQ Show 26 – Cisco Live Network, IPv6 and Hugs All Round – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.

Show 151 – Defining Software Defined Whatever

The hosts of the Speaking in Tech podcast join the Packet Pushers to discuss “not networking” just ahead of the Cisco Live conference. CLUS roving reporter Chris Wahl @chriswahl takes part in the melee. Dropping insults on ITIL and ITSM once again. Defining Software Defined Whatever because “My Other Software Defined is Your Mom” Software […]

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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.

The post Show 151 – Defining Software Defined Whatever appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.

Masterclass – Tcpdump – Basics

This Masterclass article series aimes to provide in-depth technical information on the installation, usage and operation of the classic and supremely popular tcpdump network traffic analysis program including alternatives, running tcpdump as a process, building expressions, understanding output and more. I’ll cover the Basics here and move on to Parameters, then filter Expressions and finally Interpreting […]

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Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and has never been too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He's now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He's worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. Working with switches and routers pretty much from the start he now also has a thirst for application delivery, SDN, virtualisation and related products and technologies. He's published a number of F5 Networks related books and is a regular contributor at DevCentral.

The post Masterclass – Tcpdump – Basics appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.

Speaker for the Dead – Telnet

The idea of this article series is for me to play the part of a ‘Speaker for the Dead’ for technology that has or is becoming ‘end of life’ or legacy and/or irrelevant (or which should be). In this article, I’ll cover Telnet; the good, the bad, the ugly, the full (but brief) and honest […]

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Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and has never been too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He's now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He's worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. Working with switches and routers pretty much from the start he now also has a thirst for application delivery, SDN, virtualisation and related products and technologies. He's published a number of F5 Networks related books and is a regular contributor at DevCentral.

The post Speaker for the Dead – Telnet appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.

Speaker for the Dead – Spanning Tree Protocol

A friend of mine* text me early last week asking if I wanted to go to the cinema and watch the film After Earth. I couldn’t/wouldn’t go as I’m still up to my neck in book writing, but I thought I’d distract myself for a minute or two and read a few reviews of the […]

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Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and has never been too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He's now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He's worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. Working with switches and routers pretty much from the start he now also has a thirst for application delivery, SDN, virtualisation and related products and technologies. He's published a number of F5 Networks related books and is a regular contributor at DevCentral.

The post Speaker for the Dead – Spanning Tree Protocol appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.

Networking Learning Paths – Route/Switch or Speciality Knowledge?

I spent the first ten years of my career in mobile telecoms. I learned a ton of lessons and I really enjoyed it, but I’ve always been drawn to networking. However I wasn’t getting hands-on exposure to data networks in my telco job so I had to teach myself. In 2002 I began the transition […]

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John Harrington

John is an experienced data center engineer with a background in mobile telecoms. He works as a network test engineer for a large cloud service provider, and is gradually accepting that he's a nerd. He blogs about network technology and careers at theNetworkSherpa.com. You can reach him on twitter at: @networksherpa

The post Networking Learning Paths – Route/Switch or Speciality Knowledge? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by John Harrington.

How do I Justify this?

“Say I’m convinced that my company should choose one technology over another. How can I tell the whole truth, cover all the bases, explain all the alternatives, while making certain I make the case that the technology I’ve made, or would like to make, is the right one?” In case you’ve ever wondered what it’s […]

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Russ White

Principal Engineer at Ericsson

Russ White has scribbled a basket of books, penned a plethora of patents, written a raft of RFCs, taught a trencher of classes, nibbled and noodled at a lot of networks, and done a lot of other stuff you either already know about — or don't really care about. You can find Russ at 'net Work, the Internet Protocol Journal, and his author page on Amazon.

The post How do I Justify this? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.

PQ Show 25 – Cisco OTV Deep Dive Part 2

New voices gather in the Packet Pushers virtual boardroom for a discussion of Cisco’s layer 2 extension technology, Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV). Ethan Banks hosts a recording of about two hours worth of content about OTV; this show is the second hour (well, almost another hour). Joining Ethan are first-time guests Jamie Caesar, Colby Glass and Ken Matlock. Jamie, Colby and Ken have […]

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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 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

The post PQ Show 25 – Cisco OTV Deep Dive Part 2 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.

Packet Pushers – Planned Shows & TweetUps at Cisco Live US 2013

Next week, the Packet Pushers are sponsored by Cisco to take the mobile recording studio to Cisco Live US (CLUS) in Orlando. We’ve been planning a lot of shows around what is the biggest IT conference of the year for those of us in the networking industry. The inimitable Mr. Ferro has posted some thoughts […]

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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 3M 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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CCIE Lab Exam attempt #2 – How I’m going to study better!

Well it has been just over 7 weeks now since I failed my first attempt at the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching in Brussels. On the way home on the Eurostar I had vowed to take the weekend off and get straight back on the horse and start labbing again for 4 hours […]

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Roger Perkin

Roger Perkin is the Senior Network Engineer for the European Data Center team for Cobham. Based in Hampshire in the UK, when not designing, building and troubleshooting networks, he can be found studying for his CCIE, kite surfing, cycling and spending time with his family.
You can follow his progress on his CCIE Blog or follow him on Twitter @rogernperkin
or on Google Plus

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5 Reasons to Consider Working For a Technology Reseller

For the first several years of my career, I worked for a smaller technology reseller. These types of organizations are often known as value added resellers, or VARs. The role of a VAR is to combine their expertise with some technology they sell in a way that solves the challenges of their customers. The expertise […]

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Paul Stewart

Paul is a Network and Security Engineer, Trainer and Blogger who enjoys understanding how things really work. With nearly 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Paul has helped many organizations build, maintain and secure their networks and systems. Paul also writes technical content at PacketU.

The post 5 Reasons to Consider Working For a Technology Reseller appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.