No, really! Did you know that your IOS-based router is capable as acting as a static webserver? Below you will find the steps necessary to turn a GNS/Dynamips box (or any ‘testlab’ machine) into something that can serve basic HTTP/HTTPS content. Due to the security implications of the steps below, it’s not recommended to do […]
The post How to Turn Your IOS Router Into a Pr0n Server (Pr0n Not Included) appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ken Matlock.
Arista is shipping a serious round of upgrades for the 7500 switch chassis. In this sponsored podcast, Doug Gourlay from Arista returns to the Packet Pushers to give an unvarnished view of the new products and why Arista can deliver 100GbE at a new price point while maintaining technical features and capabilities. Show Topics: 1) It’s […]
The post Show 146 – Arista 7500 – One Switch to Rule Them All – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
In my previous blog post I looked at the benefits and limitations of SPAN ports. SPAN or mirror ports are a convenient way of getting access to network packets without having to be inline like a firewall. Once you have got your network packet source in place, the next question is, what applications are available […]
This recent article from IEEE Spectrum discusses our impression that as we age, we lose the ability to learn quickly — fluid intelligence, as it’s called. An accompanying chart shows this in some degree through the skill of chess players across a range of ages. There’s something suspicious about this chart, though, and it’s pairing […]
The post Are You a Fuddy Duddy? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
How does the internet work - We know what is networking
Simply said, time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter. Jitter is specific issue that normally exists in packet networks and this phenomenon is usually not causing any communication problems. TCP/IP is responsible for dealing with the jitter impact on communication. On the other hand, in VoIP network environment, or better […]
I just ran across a pointer to this research on Bruce Schneier’s blog: Networking system components that are well-behaved in separation may create counter-intuitive emergent system behaviors, which are not well-behaved at all. For example, cooperative behavior might unexpectedly break down as the connectivity of interaction partners grows. “Applying this to the global network of […]
The post Machine Fragile: More Thoughts appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
Announcing the latest episode of Healthy Paranoia from Mrs. Y featuring the case of Terry Childs, the infamous former Network Administrator arrested for refusing to provide passwords for San Francisco’s FiberWAN system to management. She’s joined by Jeana Pieralde, Chief Security Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, along with two members of the […]
The post Healthy Paranoia Show 12: The Saga of Terry Childs appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Mrs. Y.
I have worked in technology full-time for nearly fifteen years. Prior to this, I built PCs and was somewhat of a technical hobbyist. Occasionally, I am faced with the question, “How does one get into computers?” or “How can I get into computer networking?” There are many paths and correct answers to these questions. The […]
The post The Technical Mind appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
Today we are announcing our new 7500E modular switch, the fastest and densest modular switching platform in the industry, enabling cloud networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines.
The Arista 7500E is a remarkable 3X better than its predecessor. It offers 3X the number of ports, 3X the fabric bandwidth, 3X the packet buffer, 3X the supervisor performance, and 3X the power-efficiency, without a chassis or power upgrade.
But the real story of the 7500E it that it enables customers to build a universal cloud networking infrastructure for the worldʼs largest data centers that can handle even the most demanding workloads with ease.
Letʼs take a look inside this remarkable new switch.
The 7500E has 3.84 Tbps fabric bandwidth per slot, or 30 Tbps per 8-slot chassis, three times the bandwidth of the first generation 7500.
The 7508E supports 1152 10G, 288 40G or 96 100G wire-speed ports in a 11U chassis, the highest port density in the industry and three times the number of ports of the first generation 7500.
The 7500E comes with a world-record 144 GByte of packet buffer per 8-slot chassis, Continue reading
I have to admit I’m a big VMware fanboy. Wanting to master the art of virtualization, I’ve set out to build out a personal lab. My primary goal is to work my way up to the VCDX certification. The curious thing about building a VMware lab is that all parts need to be on the […]
The post VMware VCDX Lab: The Hardware appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Douglas Hanks.
A community show where we get Brent Salisbury and Ivan Pepelnjak to talk about the events of the last few weeks. In the end, the only thing we seemed to cover was OpenDaylight, ONS and various SDN topics. Open Networking Summit – Brent reports in. Talking SDN and OpenDaylight Ivan asks “will you install open […]
The post Show 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.