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NG mVPN-Control Plane Overview

In this post we will be exploring the shortcomings of MVPN (Draft Rosen/RFC 6037), with a focus on how NG-MVPN technologies address these limitations. Why NG-MVPN? The base specification for BGP/MPLS VPNs, RFC4364, only addresses unicast, and the first proposal for multicast support in BGP/MPLS VPNs is often known as Draft Rosen (which is now […]

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Diptanshu Singh

Diptanshu Singh

Diptanshu Singh,(3xCCIE,CCDE) is a Sr. Engineer mostly focused on service providers , data center and security. He is a network enthusiast passionate about network technologies so not only is it his profession, but something of a hobby as well.

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Establish Static Redundancy via DSL Connection

It is a popular method for small businesses to utilize their local ISP’s business class DSL service. It is a also a great rule of thumb to multi-home your connection by using 2 separate ISP’s (Cox and Verizon for example). You would ideally want to either load balance your traffic between the 2 connections or […]

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Korey

Korey

Korey is a Network Engineer and Military veteran with over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently holds the following certifications; CCNP R&S, JNCIA, and CCNA Security. He is interested in advancing his network knowledge and teaching others. Currently works as a Network Engineer and is responsible for day to day operations as well as network design and implementation.

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Show 214 – Storage versus Networking

The eternal loathing between Storage and Networking professionals has manifested into a podcast when I am joined by well known storage people to debate our dysfunctional family relationship.

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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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PQ Show 37 – Fancy Network Adapters with Solarflare

As servers get faster, network speed and latency is impacted by the performance of network adapters inside the server. There are many after market options for radically improving the throughput and latency performance and we discuss them in this 20 minute show.

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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 37 – Fancy Network Adapters with Solarflare appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.

Network Break 23

This week we are sponsored by Solarwinds NPM and topics: its Net Neutrality, Facebook's Data Centre Design, Resellers and SDN, Amazon tilts at the Enterprise, Project Squared, and Too Many Salesman.

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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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IPv6 in the Enterprise by Jeff Doyle and Orhan Ergun

Orhan Ergun and Jeff Doyle talks about IPv6 design and deployment considerations in the Enterprise networks. They strongly advice you to consider IPv6 deployment in your network. Why IPv6 in the Enterprise , what are the real business drivers for the IPv6 ? Growth of IPv6 in the Enterprise Networks Jeff Doyle’s advices to Service […]

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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. Orhan works as a freelance network instructor, for training you can add ' Orhan Ergun ' on skype.

In addition, Orhan is a:
Blogger at Network Computing.
Blogger and podcaster at Packet Pushers.
Manager of Google CCDE Group.
On Twitter @OrhanErgunCCDE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/orhanergun

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IPv6 in the Enterprise by Jeff Doyle and Orhan Ergun

[player] Orhan Ergun and Jeff Doyle talks about IPv6 design and deployment considerations in the Enterprise networks. They strongly advice you to consider IPv6 deployment in your network. Why IPv6 in the Enterprise , what are the real business drivers for the IPv6 ? Growth of IPv6 in the Enterprise Networks Jeff Doyle’s advices to […]

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PQ Show 36 – ENIGMA NMS – Network Management – The Engineers Monitoring System from NETSAS Australia

Network management and monitoring is at the heart of every network but not every product is based on client requests. Enigma NMS has been built by engineers for engineers to use. That's why the interface will be totally familiar to you and has the features you expect to be in the product.

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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 36 – ENIGMA NMS – Network Management – The Engineers Monitoring System from NETSAS Australia appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.

We Are At HP Discover Conference in Barcelona Next Week

The Packet Pushers team are once again packing their virtual underpants and this time heading to Spain at HP Discover in Barcelona with our “cloud studio”. Next week we will enjoying some warm winter nerdiness on HP Networking products and strategy, looking closely at the ever-growing HP VAN strategy for SDN and also diving in the bread & […]

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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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4 Inevitable Questions When Joining a Monitoring Group, Pt. 2

Leon Adato, Technical Product Marketing Manager with SolarWinds is our guest blogger today, with a sponsored post in a four-part series on the topic of alerting. In the first part of this series, Leon explained how to answer the first of four (ok, really 5) questions that monitoring professionals are inevitably asked once they join […]

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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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Configure a DMVPN Spoke behind a Home router/modem

I’ve come across this scenario on multiple occasions now. Your company wants to set up a demo at a “customers” location. Your demo is reliant on its own router talking back to HQ to pull necessary data for the program in question. Unfortunately your internet connection at the “demo” site is sitting behind a NAT. […]

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Korey

Korey

Korey is a Network Engineer and Military veteran with over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently holds the following certifications; CCNP R&S, JNCIA, and CCNA Security. He is interested in advancing his network knowledge and teaching others. Currently works as a Network Engineer and is responsible for day to day operations as well as network design and implementation.

The post Configure a DMVPN Spoke behind a Home router/modem appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Korey.

APIs, APIs…a look at Arista’s eAPI

Arista switches have an API known as eAPI. In this article, I will discuss some of the basics of how eAPI operates, how to connect to it, and how to gather network information using it.   Basic eAPI operation eAPI uses JSON-RPC over HTTPS.  What this means in simpler terms is that the communication to and […]

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Kirk Byers

Kirk Byers is the owner of Twin Bridges Technology–a bootstrapped technology business in San Francisco. He teaches Python courses for Network Engineers and writes about network automation at pynet.twb-tech.com. He is a long-time network engineer (CCIE #6243 emeritus), has extensive experience with *nix system administration, and is a Python programmer. He is interested in programming and networking and how to improve network engineering practices through automation.

The post APIs, APIs…a look at Arista’s eAPI appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Kirk Byers.

Network Break 22

Cisco Loves and Hates Net Neutrality, SDN WAN continues to grow and Analysts as AWS puppy dogs - drooling, licking themselves and barking at the AWS reinvent conference.

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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 Network Break 22 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.

The changing of the guard: Telecom Style-Part 1

The sale of a incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) aka the local telephone company can be much more complicated than one might think, ordinary folks anyway. Networking & IT  professionals most likely have a different viewpoint as migrations are a fundamental part of the IT field. Such a transaction becomes more complicated when triple play […]

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Mitchell Lewis

Mitchell is a young technology professional with an interest in networking & communications. He takes an interest in the ever changing telecom space as well as other networking technologies (datacenter etc). His main hobby project is overseeing the expansion of broadband into a co-operative campground, shares of which are owned by a family member.

Mitchell currently is a Cisco Certified Entry Level Tech (CCENT Certified) with intentions of obtaining higher as time permits.He graduated from the Connecticut Technical High School system with a focus in Information Systems Technology (Combination of Higher Ed MIS & Computer Science). While there he developed the production computing platform for his academic department( servers, networking, desktop).

He is currently pursing higher education from the UCONN School of Business & welcomes any opportunity to further advance his experience in the IT Field & professional knowledge.

The Linux ip Command – An Ostensive Overview

It came to my attention and I was rather surprised to learn a while back that the Linux ifconfig command has been deprecated for quite some time by the Linux ip command set. The ip command isn’t new to me and I’ve recognised its advantages for some time but considering its ‘elevated’ status I thought […]

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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.

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Stop Doing Post Mortems & Root Cause Analysis With indeni

Indeni has technology that can predict known types of network failures using pre-mortem analysis.

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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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Show 213 – What’s Next for Avaya Enterprise Wireless – Sponsored

Unlike Gen Z’ers, who have never known a world without Wi-Fi (or Minecraft), some of us get to see technology come full circle. Join Alan Hase, VP of Avaya Networking, and the Packet Pushers as they outline (and relish and pontificate) how this phenomenon is playing out in WLAN and Mobility today. Alan highlights how […]

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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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BGPSEC: Basic Operation

I’m going to take a little break from my other two series to inject a short series on BGPSEC. I’ll return to HTIRW and RFCs you need to know shortly. BGPSEC is a set of standards currently under consideration in the IETF to secure BGP beyond the origin AS – in other words, to secure […]

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Russ White

Russ White
Principal Engineer at Ericsson

Russ White is a Network Architect who's scribbled a basket of books, penned a plethora of patents, written a raft of RFCs, taught a trencher of classes, and done a lot of other stuff you either already know about, or don't really care about. You want numbers and letters? Okay: CCIE 2635, CCDE 2007:001, CCAr, BSIT, MSIT (Network Design & Architecture, Capella University), MACM (Biblical Literature, Shepherds Theological Seminary). Russ is a Principal Engineer in the IPOS Team at Ericsson, where he works on lots of different stuff, serves on the Routing Area Directorate at the IETF, and is a cochair of the Internet Society Advisory Council. He recently published The Art of Network Architecture, is currently working on a new book in the area of network complexity with Addison Wesley, a book on innovation from Continue reading

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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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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