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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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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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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The post The value of Soft Skills appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ken Matlock.
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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The post The Realpolitik of technical pre-sales appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Glen Kemp.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The post Packet Pushers – Planned Shows & TweetUps at Cisco Live US 2013 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
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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The post CCIE Lab Exam attempt #2 – How I’m going to study better! appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Roger Perkin.
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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The post 5 Reasons to Consider Working For a Technology Reseller appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
PQ Show 24 – Cisco OTV Deep Dive Part 1
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 first hour. Joining Ethan are first-time guests Jamie Caesar, Colby Glass and Ken Matlock. Jamie, […]
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The post PQ Show 24 – Cisco OTV Deep Dive Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Have Respect For The Work You Do
The other day I was called in to assist with issue that had been open for a few days. The primary reason for my involvement was to confirm network connectivity was permitted as required by a recently installed application. After an initial look, it was apparent that the application wasn’t even trying to access network […]
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The post Have Respect For The Work You Do appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
Are Forensics Tools the New IDS?
For the past few years, many people have been suggesting that the days of IDS (intrusion detection system) are numbered. When IDS was first launched, it was seen as an answer to a lot of network security problems: deep packet inspection with constant monitoring and alerts. However, one of the biggest problems with IDS is […]
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Monitoring VRFs on IOS-XR
Lately I have been investigating how to monitor BGP peering session via SNMP instead of traps/syslog messages and I found out that this feature is not documented properly for IOS XR. Finally I managed to get it working, so I thought that it would be worth sharing with the community. In our example, we have […]
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The post Monitoring VRFs on IOS-XR appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by David Barroso.