Episode 5 – All You Ever Wanted To Know About EIGRP
In episode 5 the Network Collective panel dives deep into the inner-workings of EIGRP and how to tune the protocol to work best for you. This isn’t your run of the mill EIGRP training session though, so buckle up and dig in to learn a lot about a protocol which appears pretty straight forward on the surface.
On another note… If you like the technical and community aspects of Network Collective, we wanted to tell you about a podcast that our friends over at Gestalt IT have just started up that you’ll probably enjoy as well. The name of their podcast is the On-Premise IT Roundtable and in addition to networking they will be covering topics like system architecture, storage, big data, virtualization, hyper-converged, and a slew of other topics. You should check them out.
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Russ White
Guest
Nicholas Russo
Guest
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Leaf-and-Spine Fabrics: Implicit or Explicit Complexity?
During Shawn Zandi’s presentation describing large-scale leaf-and-spine fabrics I got into an interesting conversation with an attendee that claimed it might be simpler to replace parts of a large fabric with large chassis switches (largest boxes offered by multiple vendors support up to 576 40GE or even 100GE ports).
As always, you have to decide between implicit and explicit complexity.
Read more ...The First Question in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity professionals know that security cannot be a bolt on process or technology. Likewise, I also believe that that the thought of including the security team is rarely goes far enough. To be effective, security should be ingrained and it should be pervasive. With a this commitment, there is at least one primary question that every organization should be asking in regards to Cybersecurity. That question is simply “Why?”
Not only should this question be asked organizationally, it should also be asked by individuals that are assuming security related roles within an organization. Some would think that the answer is simple or obvious. In many cases it is, but the complete answer WILL differ from organization to organization and differ based on the type of organization. What is important is that the organization itself agree upon the answer to this question.
Relevant answers to the Why question might be any or all of the following:
Governance—Specific regulatory requirements that the organization is required to meet. When these exist, they are often considered a top priority and a baseline requirement to transact business.
Cost/Expense—This could be direct and/or indirect. A direct example would be the typical scenario that occurs with ransomeware. Continue reading
Microwave
Two interesting things I saw when listening to the output from my microwave:
- The frequency is not stable. I assume it’s not thermally controlled.
- Probably not a good idea to use WiFi channel 6, being 2.437GHz+-11MHz and all.
Near the microwave
Some rooms away from the microwave
Separate measurement some rooms away.
How to generate the graphs
# Edit usrp_spectrum_sense.py so that it prints time.time() instead of datetime.now()
./usrp_spectrum_sense.py --dwell-delay=0.1 -A RX2 -s 8000000 --real-time 2.4e9 2.5e9 > near-microwave.txt
# Edit near-microwave to remove the stupid verbose messages from the top.
cat > microwave.plot << EOF
set view map
set size ratio .9
set object 1 rect from graph 0, graph 0 to graph 1, graph 1 back
set object 1 rect fc rgb "black" fillstyle solid 1.0
set xlabel 'Time in seconds'
set ylabel 'Frequency'
set zlabel 'dB'
set terminal epslatex color
set output "near-microwave.eps"
splot 'near-microwave.txt' using ($1-1496693552.11):((($5/1000-2400000)/1000)):4 with points pointtype 5 pointsize 3 palette linewidth 30 title 'Signal'
EOF
gnuplot microwave.plot
convert near-microwave.{eps,png}
I can’t have GNUPlot output PNG directly because it hangs.
The magic value 1496693552.11 is the first timestamp in the file.
OneLogin and Password Managers
An interesting incident this last week brings password managers back to the front of the pile—
I used to use LastPass, but moved off of their product/service when LogMeIn bought them—my previous encounters with LogMeIn have all been negative, and I have no intention of using their service again in any form. During that move, I decided it was important to make another decision about the tradeoff between an online (cloud based) password manager, or one that keeps information in a local file. The key problem with cloud based services of this kind are they paint a huge target onto your passwords. The counter argument is that such cloud based services are more likely to protect your passwords than you are, because they focus their time and energy on doing so.
First lesson: moving to a cloud based application does not mean moving to a situation where the cloud provider actually knows what you are storing, nor how to access Continue reading
Nokia Collaborated with University of Notre Dame on MEC Trial
5G promises lower latency, but edge computing will still be necessary.
DigitalOcean Launches Cloud Firewalls to Secure Cloud Platform
This is DigitalOcean's first major security offering.
Canonical Set to Lose Cloud VP to a ‘New Adventure’
Canonical's current CEO is also leaving next month.
Security Startup Armis Raises $17M to Eliminate IoT Blind Spots
Samsung, ITD, and Gett are customers.
Open Networking for Large-Scale Networks
Shawn Zandi and I recently recorded a new webinar for Ivan over at ipspace.net around open source and disaggregated networking. If you have ever wanted to find out about these topics, this webinar is a great place to start in understanding what options are available, and how easy/hard it is to get this kind of thing running.
The webinar is available here.
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