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Tech Bytes: Pharma Distributor Ensures Uptime, App Performance With Aruba SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes sponsored podcast we're talking SD-WAN with Ascent Health & Wellness, a digital healthcare platform for pharmaceutical distribution. We discuss how the company deployed Aruba EdgeConnect to ensure uptime for critical pharmaceutical fulfillment services, speed up order processing, and provide robust performance for cloud-based business apps.

Tech Bytes: Pharma Distributor Ensures Uptime, App Performance With Aruba SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes sponsored podcast we're talking SD-WAN with Ascent Health & Wellness, a digital healthcare platform for pharmaceutical distribution. We discuss how the company deployed Aruba EdgeConnect to ensure uptime for critical pharmaceutical fulfillment services, speed up order processing, and provide robust performance for cloud-based business apps.

The post Tech Bytes: Pharma Distributor Ensures Uptime, App Performance With Aruba SD-WAN (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network certs 2021: Significant raises for the right ones

COVID-19 kicked off one of the most disruptive economic periods since World War II, and companies scrambled to shift business processes to the cloud to meet escalating digital demands. In fact, companies digitized many activities at a rate 20% to 25% faster than previously thought possible, according to research from McKinsey & Company.That acceleration has impacted the IT workforce: 85% of IT hiring managers say their hiring needs have changed, according to a survey by colocation provider INAP. This creates an opportunity for IT professionals who want to move ahead in their careers. Getting trained in key technologies can be a steppingstone not only to better pay but also to leadership jobs with more responsibilities.To read this article in full, please click here

Top Online Learning Websites

Online learning was on the rise for many years. However, the pandemic pushed this learning even further as people are now doing everything from their homes. After all, online is more effective, cheaper, and doesn’t require much time and effort than conventional education.

If you want to make use of this time to learn more, you are in the right place. Here are the top online learning websites for you to learn new skills.

1. Udemy

Udemy is one of the most popular online learning platforms out there. You can choose from more than a hundred thousand courses. That is why it is an ideal choice for people that want to diversify their education by learning new things.

Keep in mind that you will have to purchase a course and then start learning. However, courses are not too expensive and will not put a significant dent in your pocket. After each course, you get a completion certificate.

2. Skillshare

Skillshare is a highly diverse learning platform. It has more than twenty-thousand classes, and it offers a two-month free trial to all its users. After that, you can either pay $15 each month or $99 per year.

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LISP – OMP – BGP EVPN Interoperability – Part VII: End-to-End Data-Plane Operation

 

Introduction

 

This chapter introduces Data-Plane operation and explains how the data packets from EP3 (IP 172.16.30.3) in Datacenter Fabric are forwarded via SD-WAN to EP1 (IP 172.16.100.10) in Campus Fabric. (1) EndPoint3 sends the ICMP Request packet to its gateway switch Leaf-11. Leaf-11 makes routing decisions based on the VRF NWKT routing table. Before forwarding the packet, Leaf-11 adds a VXLAN header where it uses L3VNI 10077. It also sets the outer IP header where it uses the Border-Leaf-13 tunnel interface’s IP address 192.168.50.13 as a destination. Spine-1 routes the packet to Border-Leaf-13 based on the outer IP address. Border-Leaf-13 notices that the destination IP address of the received IP packet belongs to its’s NVE1 tunnel interface. It removes the outer IP header and based UDP destination port it notices that this is VXLAN encapsulated packet. It knows that L3VNI 10077 belongs to VRF NWKT. It strips off the VXLAN header and routes the packet to vEdge-2. The ingress interface towards DC in vEdge-2 belongs to VPN 10. vEdge-2 consults its routing table. Based on it, vEdge-2 constructs tunnel headers and sends ICMP Request to vEdge-1 via Public-Internet using MPLS Label 1003 as a VPN identifier. Routers in Internet routes packet based on the outer destination IP address. When vEdge-1 receives the packet, it notices that the destination IP address is its’ Public IP address. It first removes the outer IP header. Then it checks the tunnel header. Based on the Label value 1003, it knows that packet belongs to VPN 10. It consults the VPN 10 RIB and routes the packet to Border-PxTR-13. The ingress interface on Border-PxTR-13 belongs to VRF 100_NWKT that belongs to LISP Instance 100. It checks the Instance 100 specific LISP mapping in order to know how it should route the packet. The LISP mapping Database does not contain the information because this is the first packet to destination 172.16.100.10. Border-PxTR-13 sends a LISP Map-Request message to MapSrv-22, which replies with a LISP Map-Reply message, where it describes the RLOC of Edge-xTR-11 that has registered the IP address 172.16.100.10. I have excluded the Map-Request/Reply processes from figure 6-1 to keep the figure simple. Border-Leaf-13 encapsulates the ICMP Request packet with a tunnel header. It sets the Instance-Id 100 on the VXLAN header and adds the outer IP header where it uses the Edge-xTR-11’s IP address 192.168.0.13 as a destination address. Core-1 routes the packet to Edge-xTR-11 based on the outer IP header destination address. Edge-xTR-11 processes the ingress IP packet because the destination IP address belongs to it. Based on the destination UDP port 4789, it knows that the following header is a VXLAN header. Edge-xTR-11 knows that the LISP Instance-Id 100 is bind to BD 100. Because Edge-xTR-11 has an L3 interface in BD 100, it resolves the MAC address for the IP address 172.16.100.10 from the ARP table and the egress interface for the MAC from the MAC address table. EP1 processes the ICMP Request packet and sends the ICMP Reply to EP3.


Figure 6-1:End-to-End Data-Plane Operation.

 

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Heavy Networking 592: The VAR Perspective On Networking And Customer Trends

Today on Heavy Networking, we talk with Remington Loose, Solutions Architect at a mid-sized VAR, to get a sense of what technology is in demand; what problems customers are trying to solve; and how cloud, DIY, and other forces affect the competitive landscape. It's a #VARlife episode.

The post Heavy Networking 592: The VAR Perspective On Networking And Customer Trends appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Weekend Reads 080621


M of N is how you carve up ownership of necessary information to use a cryptographic hardware security module (HSM) to ensure a process that is visible to the community.


Last November, the European Council published the resolution “Security through encryption and security despite encryption.” It stated that law enforcement “must be able to access data in a lawful and targeted manner,” and called on stakeholders to find “technical solutions” to provide law enforcement access to end-to-end encrypted communications.


Intel’s Data Center Group has just turned in the third best revenue quarter in its history, just behind the two thirteen-week periods that started off 2020, which was before the coronavirus pandemic had hit and just after it hit and the full effects were not seen as yet.


Logos play a significant role in whether or not we open an email and how we assess the importance of each message.


The unpleasant truth of the matter is that this will certainly not be the last time society is disrupted due to attackers targeting critical industrial control systems (ICS). The impact of such an attack is amplified by the growing reliance on automation and antiquated protocols throughout many OT networks.


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Follow My Leader

I spent the past two weeks enjoying the scenic views at the Philmont Scout Ranch with my son and some of his fellow Scouts BSA troop mates. It was very much the kind of vacation that involved a lot of hiking, mountain climbing, and even some inclement weather. We all completely enjoyed ourselves and I learned a lot about hanging bear bags and taking care of blisters. I also learned a lot about leadership by watching the boys in the crew interact with each other.

Storm Warnings

Leadership styles are nothing new to the people that read my blog. I’ve talked about them at length in the past. One thing I noticed when I was on the trek was how different leadership styles can clash and create friction among teenagers. As adults we tend to gloss over delivery and just accept that people are the way they are. When you’re fourteen or fifteen you haven’t quite taken that lesson to heart yet. That means more pushing against styles that don’t work for you.

We have all worked for or with someone that has a very authoritarian style in the past. The kind of people that say, “Do this right now” Continue reading

Introducing Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages

Introducing Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages
Introducing Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages

With Cloudflare Pages, deploying your Jamstack applications is easier than ever — integrate with GitHub and a simple git push deploys your site within minutes. However, one of the limitations of Pages was that triggering deployments to your site only happens within the confines of committing to GitHub. We started thinking about how users who author content consistently on their site — our bloggers and writers — may not always be editing their copy directly via the code but perhaps through a different service. Headless content management systems (CMSs) are a simple solution to solve this problem, allowing users to store their backend content through an editing interface as a service for an application like Pages.

It made us wonder: what if we could trigger deployments based on updates made in other places rather than just via GitHub? Today, we are proud to announce a new way to connect your Pages application with your headless CMSs and databases: introducing Deploy Hooks for Pages.

What’s a headless CMS?

Headless CMSs such as Contentful, Ghost and Sanity.io allow optimization of content formatting for any type of interface. With tools like these, you can leverage a “decoupled” content management model where all Continue reading

LISP – OMP – BGP EVPN Interoperability – Part VI: LISP Control-Plane – Registering External IP Prefixes

 

Introduction

 

This chapter introduces how Border-PxTR-13 registers the external IP prefix 172.16.30.0/24 received as a BGP update from vEdge-1 to MapSrv-22 using LISP Map-register messages. Chapter 2 explains the LISP RLOC-to-EID mapping process in detail so this chapter just briefly recaps the operation. Figure 5-1 illustrates the overall process. vEdge-1 sends a BGP Update message where it describes the NLRI for prefix 172.16.30.0/24. Border-PxTR-13 first imports the information into the LISP processes. Next, it sends a LISP Map-Register message to MapSrv-22. In addition to IP prefix information, the Map-Register message carries Locator Record information that describes the destination IP address used in the outer IP header (tunnel header) when devices route IP packets towards the advertised subnet.  



Figure 5-1:Overall Control-Plane Operation: OMP to LISP

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How to deploy a BGP route generator? | Containerlab | ExaBGP

Hi all!

The blog post is sort of "How to ...?"

Introduction

Some time ago I needed to prepare a lab environment where I should have to simulate a huge amount of BGP updates between routers.  How can we arrange that? The main thing is how to generate a lot of BGP updates? As I see we have two ways:

  • VM with network OS from classic vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Nokia);
  • Linux BGP daemon
Sure, BGP daemons are more scalable and suitable for lab purposes. And a lot of companies use them in production (in most cases as BGP RR). Of course, I knew about different Linux BGP demons but didn't have experience with them. This time I followed the next simple workflow in the tech world - don't know something? Let's Googling! (don't use this way in the production environment - firstly, read tech books, user guides, RFC, etc :) )

This way I've found all that I need:

1) BGP daemon. I decided to use ExaBGP
2) Route generator. It's a simple python script route-smash that uses ExaBGP API.

As a lab environment, I'm using Containerlab. Don't know what more I can add about Containerlab. If you don't Continue reading
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