BiB 31: VMware NSX 6.4 Release Notes Round Up
Ethan Banks does a quick walk through of VMware's official release notes for NSX 6.4.
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5 Intent-Based Networking Vendors
A look at some players in an emerging market that aims to radically transform how networks are built and managed.
Tier 1 carrier performance report: January, 2018
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Machine Learning and Network Traffic Management
A while ago Russ White (answering a reader question) mentioned some areas where we might find machine learning useful in networking:
If we are talking about the overlay, or traffic engineering, or even quality of service, I think we will see a rising trend towards using machine learning in network environments to help solve those problems. I am not convinced machine learning can solve these problems, in the sense of leaving humans out of the loop, but humans could set the parameters up, let the neural network learn the flows, and then let the machine adjust things over time. I tend to think this kind of work will be pretty narrow for a long time to come.
Guess what: as fancy as it sounds, we don’t need machine learning to solve those problems.
Read more ...Intentional Infrastructure
I gave a presentation at the recent Network Field Day 17 (on my 3rd day working for Juniper). My main goal for this presentation was just to get people excited about building stuff.
We tend to focus on vendor-provided solutions in this industry, and there’s a lot of good reasons for that, but it’s also good to stay sharp and be able to build your own solution to fill gaps where necessary. One reason I joined Juniper is that much of what we offer is built on a highly programmable foundation. So you get the best of both worlds - high-level products to solve the hard problems, but you still have the ability to insert your own custom tooling at various points in the stack.
In the above video, I outlined a simple Github-available demo for applying policies to a vSRX based on the existing services running in Kubernetes, and then verifying those policies are actually working by again using Kubernetes to determine what applications should be available.
My demo is designed to be self-sufficient, meaning you should be able to follow the README and get a working demo. Feel free to watch the above video first for context, then Continue reading
Intentional Infrastructure
I gave a presentation at the recent Network Field Day 17 (on my 3rd day working for Juniper). My main goal for this presentation was just to get people excited about building stuff.
We tend to focus on vendor-provided solutions in this industry, and there’s a lot of good reasons for that, but it’s also good to stay sharp and be able to build your own solution to fill gaps where necessary. One reason I joined Juniper is that much of what we offer is built on a highly programmable foundation. So you get the best of both worlds - high-level products to solve the hard problems, but you still have the ability to insert your own custom tooling at various points in the stack.
In the above video, I outlined a simple Github-available demo for applying policies to a vSRX based on the existing services running in Kubernetes, and then verifying those policies are actually working by again using Kubernetes to determine what applications should be available.
My demo is designed to be self-sufficient, meaning you should be able to follow the README and get a working demo. Feel free to watch the above video first for context, then Continue reading
Intentional Infrastructure
I gave a presentation at the recent Network Field Day 17 (on my 3rd day working for Juniper). My main goal for this presentation was just to get people excited about building stuff. We tend to focus on vendor-provided solutions in this industry, and there’s a lot of good reasons for that, but it’s also good to stay sharp and be able to build your own solution to fill gaps where necessary.77 Facts About Cyber Crimes One Should Know In 2018
I am pleased to publish an infographic called "77 Facts About Cyber Crimes One Should Know In 2018." The infographic includes the top 10 biggest data breaches of the 21st century, top cyber crimes, stats of cyber attacks, fun facts and a ton more interesting info.
I am glad to thank BestVPNs for kind permission to republish the original article on my blog.
Note: Click image to enlarge.
77 Facts About Cyber Crimes One Should Know In 2018
I am pleased to publish an infographic called "77 Facts About Cyber Crimes One Should Know In 2018." The infographic includes the top 10 biggest data breaches of the 21st century, top cyber crimes, stats of cyber attacks, fun facts and a ton more interesting info.
I am glad to thank BestVPNs for kind permission to republish the original article on my blog.
Note: Click image to enlarge.
Top 5 moments from Networking Field Day 2017
Did you miss Cumulus Networks’ session at Networking Field Day 2017 on February 26th? Or maybe you tuned in, and you want to reminisce on the best moments? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Check out our top five favorite highlights from Technical Marketing Engineer Pete Lumbis’ presentation about managing EVPN/VXLAN. (You can also watch the whole session here, if you’d prefer to hear it from the man himself. Prepare for an intelligent demonstration peppered with some good laughs!)
5) The Legos of Linux
It makes sense to start with the basics, and that’s exactly how we begin the presentation. In a daring move, Pete decides to illustrate Cumulus Linux’s capabilities sans-Powerpoint, and whiteboards the architecture of a Mellanox switch running our OS.
One of the great things about Cumulus technology is that it’s all based in Linux. So, any configurations you would make on a Linux device are exactly the same on Cumulus Linux. Simple, right? That’s exactly our goal — allowing customers to easily customize their network as they see fit with basic building blocks. As Pete describes it, building the network is like “taking those Lego pieces and turning them into Saturn V.” Continue reading
Why CASB Is the Fastest Growing Security Category
Symantec, Skyhigh Networks (recently acquired by McAfee), and Netskope are leading vendors.
Portworx Delivers STORK as an Open Source Stateful Storage Project
The company hopes to attract partners and customers on its way into the CNCF.
A Behind the Scenes Look at Mobile Ad Fraud
How did I use over a gigabyte of mobile data in a single day? Why is my phone as warm as a hot plate? If you have ever asked yourself either of these questions, you might be the victim of a malicious application that is using your device and consuming your mobile bandwidth to facilitate ad fraud. We have recently identified a large population of apps being distributed from the Google Play Store that support this behavior. These apps are installed on devices on a majority of the major cell phone carriers around the world. These carriers operate in the US (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile), Europe (KPN, Vodafone, Ziggo, Sky, Virgin, Talk Talk, BT, O2, and T-Mobile), and the Asia Pacific region (Optus, Telstra, iinet, and others) [Note: Mobile providers and Google have been notified]. Just this morning, before this article was published, Buzzfeed broke another ad fraud story.
The Mechanics of the Grift
Online advertising consists of a complex ecosystem of ad buyers, sellers, exchanges, and data providers. Operators of websites and application authors have available space in their content layout and interaction in the user experience that can be integrated to include various forms of Continue reading
Show 375: Design & Build 14: DDoS Mitigation
Today's entry the Packet Pushers' Design & Build series focuses on DDoS mitigation strategies. Our guests are Rich Groves and Eric Chou. The post Show 375: Design & Build 14: DDoS Mitigation appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Weekends Reads 020218: GDPR, taxes, and security
Security is always changing and failure always exists. This toxic scenario requires a fresh perspective on how we think about operational security. We must understand that we are often the primary cause of our own security flaws. The industry typically looks at cybersecurity and failure in isolation or as separate matters. We believe that our lack of insight and operational Continue reading
OpenSwitch
This article describes how to enable industry standard sFlow telemetry using the open source Host sFlow agent. The Host sFlow agent uses Control Plane Services (CPS) to configure sFlow instrumentation in the hardware and gather metrics. CPS in turn uses the Open Compute Project (OCP) Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) as a vendor independent method of configuring the hardware. Hardware support for sFlow is a standard feature supported by Network Processing Unit (NPU) vendors (Barefoot, Broadcom, Cavium, Innovium, Intel, Marvell, Mellanox, etc.) and vendor neutral sFlow configuration is part of the SAI.
Installing and configuring Host sFlow agent
Installing the software is simple. Log into the switch and type the following commands:wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/sflow/host-sflow/releases/download/v2.0.17-1/hsflowd-opx_2.0.17-1_amd64.debThe sFlow agent requires very little configuration, automatically monitoring all switch ports using the following default settings:
sudo dpkg -i hsflowd-opx_2.0.17-1_amd64.deb
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