It is finally here! The second post of an eight-part series examines the evolution of the cloud and the trends driving the SDx revolution.
The morning after a battle — one of the first won by the American army in its battle for freedom from the British Empire — if you happened to be on the scene, you might see an American soldier, under a white flag of truce, struggling with something small he is carrying between the lines. Approaching, you can see the package is, in fact, a small terrier — a dog. If you could read the note the carrier is holding there in his scrip, you would find it says —
General Washington’s compliments to General Howe, does himself the pleasure to return to him a Dog, which accidentally fell into his hands, and by the inscription on his collar, appears to belong to General Howe… October 6th, 1777
So — in the midst of a war that cut people down from their young lives, we find a singular scene of a man carrying a dog across a field to return it to the enemy’s commander. What has any of this to do with the life of an engineer? Perhaps more than you think.
Let me return to a much younger time in my technical life, a time when I was Continue reading
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?
I'm joking of course, but in the spirit of the old TCP/IP pub game I want to share some of the amusing TCP/IP quirks I've bumped into over the last few months while working on CloudFlare's automatic attack mitigation systems.
CC BY-SA 2.0 image by Daan Berg
Don't worry if you don't know the correct answer: you may always come up with a funny one!
Some of the questions are fairly obvious, some don't have a direct answer and are supposed to provoke a longer discussion. The goal is to encourage our readers to review the dusty RFCs, get interested in the inner workings of the network stack and generally spread the knowledge about the protocols we rely on so much.
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You think you know all about TCP/IP? Let's find out.
1) What is the lowest TCP port number?
2) The TCP Continue reading
One of the various problems we face in the data networking world is the absolute plethora of tunneling technologies we have available. Going way back to the beginning, there was SNA, GRE, IP-in-IP, and a host of others. In the midterm was have MPLS (though some will argue this isn’t a tunneling protocol — but […]
The post Geneve appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
In this post we will look at something which is relatively new but not as cool as my previous post on Segment Routing. We will take a look at a new BGP feature called “Accumulated IGP, metric of path to prefix” (RFC 7311 AIGP) which is an optional non-transitive attribute . A new AIGP TLV was created for this which contains […]
The post BGP AIGP appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Diptanshu Singh.