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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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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The post Establish Static Redundancy via DSL Connection appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Korey.
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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The post Show 214 – Storage versus Networking appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
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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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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The post Network Break 23 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
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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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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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... Read more »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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The post The Linux ip Command – An Ostensive Overview appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
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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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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The post Show 213 – What’s Next for Avaya Enterprise Wireless – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
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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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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The post Network Break 21 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.