In the fourth installment of this 9-video series, Russ White describes methods for scaling data center fabrics. He reviews how to calculate port density in a leaf-spine design, discusses physical restraints on the scale of a fabric based on the spines, fabric types in chassis switches, and the pros and cons of chassis vs. single […]
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Once your Mac computer gets connected to a source of wifi and the password has been saved, its unique features enable it to automatically reconnects once in range with the wifi network.. At first, this might be okay not until for some reason, you don’t want it to be connected anymore.
Sometimes, when there are various networks in range that had been previously connected and saved to your Mac, it becomes difficult for your system to choose which one to connect to as they are all saved and could easily be connected. In situations like this, you may want to connect to one particular network but it probably connects to the wrong one. In this scenario, you would want to disconnect with the unwanted wifi network, and to do that means you would need to forget the wifi.
There are other various reasons why you may need to forget your wifi network. Probably you’ve got lots of already connected networks and you would like to reduce them or you no longer really use the network anymore and don’t want it always connected or you probably have more than one wifi and would no longer want to use one but the Continue reading
TL&DR: Ansible might decide to reorder list values in a loop parameter, resulting in unexpected order of execution and (in my case) totally borked device configuration.
A bit of a background first: I’m using an Ansible playbook within netsim-tools to deploy initial device configurations. Among other things, that playbook deploys configuration snippets for numerous configuration modules, and the order of deployment is absolutely crucial. For example, you cannot activate BGP neighbors in Labeled Unicast (BGP-LU) address family (mpls module) before configuring BGP neighbors (bgp module).
In this post I will show you how to setup Terraform to connect to your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tenancy to manage your GCP infrastructure as code. Software The following software was used in this post. Terraform - 1.1.7 Ubuntu - 2004 gcloud - 378.0.0 Pre-Flight Check Google...continue reading
On today's Tech Bytes with sponsor Singtel, we look at SD-WAN as a critical network feature for cloud access, including the use of overlays to simplify operations. We also discuss why organizations might consider a service provider for SD-WAN and dig into Singtel's SD-WAN offering.
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The data center landscape has radically evolved over the last decade thanks to virtualization.
Before Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO), data centers were limited to 4096 broadcast domains which could be problematic for large data centers to support a multi-tenancy architecture.
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) has emerged as one of the most popular network virtualization overlay technologies and has been created to address the scalability issue outlined above.
When VXLAN is used without MP-BGP, it uses a flood and learns behavior to map end-host location and identity. The VXLAN tunneling protocol encapsulates a frame into an IP packet (with a UDP header) and therefore can leverage Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) on the underlay fabric to distribute the traffic between VXLAN Tunneling Endpoints (VTEP).
Multi-Protocol BGP (MP-BGP) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) allows prefixes and mac addresses to be advertised in a data center fabric as it eliminates the flood and learns the behavior of the VXLAN protocol while VXLAN is still being used as an encapsulation mechanism to differentiate the traffic between the tenants or broadcast domains.
A Multi-Tenancy infrastructure allows multiple tenants to share the same computing and networking resources within a data center. As the physical infrastructure is shared, the physical Continue reading
In the third installment of this 9-video series, Russ White clarifies exactly what a fabric is, complete with drawings, animations, and live illustrations. From there, you’ll be able to determine what is and is not a fabric. In this lesson, Russ also walks through traffic patterns, tiers, and bandwidth between tiers in data center fabrics. […]
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While researching the BGP RFCs for the Three Dimensions of BGP Address Family Nerd Knobs, I figured out that the BGP Labeled Unicast (BGP-LU, advertising MPLS labels together with BGP prefixes) uses a different address family. So far so good.
Now for the intricate bit: a BGP router might negotiate IPv4 and IPv4-LU address families with a neighbor. Does that mean that it’s advertising every IPv4 prefix twice, once without a label, and once with a label? Should that be the case, how are those prefixes originated and how are they stored in the BGP table?
As always, the correct answer is “it depends”, this time on the network operating system implementation. This blog post describes Cisco IOS behavior, a follow-up one will focus on Arista EOS.
This is just a quick post to share something that I found which is a really nice quality of life tip for VSCode. In this post, I will show you how to configure per-language settings in VSCode so that for example in Python files you can set to indent with 4 spaces and in Javascript you...continue reading