Thinking Strategically about the Benefits of IPv6
In my last blog post on how to sell IPv6 to senior managers and executives, the feedback I got from mailing list discussions was that the case for IPv6 was more of mitigating risk than some inherent benefit of IPv6 itself … Continue reading
IOS X-Treme!
Originally posted on The Networking Nerd:As a nerd, I’m a huge fan of science fiction. One of my favorite shows was Stargate SG-1. Inside the show, there was a joke involving an in-universe TV program called “Wormhole X-Treme” that…
How to ‘Sell’ IPv6 to Executive Management – Guidance for Engineers
(aka ‘IPv6 for Managers for Network Engineers’) “Genius!”, the CEO says as he enters your office (ok more likely your cubicle or desk-space or whatever corner of the office you prefer to go hide out in to concentrate), “I’ve been … Continue reading
Getting IPv6 Done: A Step-by-Step Framework for Planning an IPv6 Deployment
It often happens during one my IPv6 training courses that a participant comes up and asks (or puts it as something that was missing from the training) – “What are the specific steps for deploying IPv6?”. This often leaves me … Continue reading
Beware of IPv6 Transition Techniques as Endgame
By now, even the non-technical folks out there are aware of IPv4 address exhaustion (The IPocalype), thanks to the problem finally coming into the consciousness of the mainstream media. As organizations plan how to deal with this exhaustion, those who … Continue reading
IPv6 Subnetting – General Procedure
First off, because I know most of us are coming from the IPv4 world, I want to state a couple of things from IPv4 subnetting that we must UNLEARN and forget in order to grasp IPv6 subnetting. Why we subnet: … Continue reading
Calculating IPv4 Summary Prefixes
Given a list of IPv4 prefixes of the same length, how do you find the summary address (or addresses) for them? This post describes a method and uses some worked examples to illustrate. The post draws deeply from the CCIE … Continue reading
Debunking the IPv6 Has More Security and QoS Myths
I thought that in the year 2011 …when the we’ve had so much talk about IPv6, lots of the smoke about what IPv6 is capable of and what it isn’t capable of would have cleared. Unfortunately not. Today I read this … Continue reading
IPv6 Subnetting Made Easy
Introduction Call it emotional attachment to IPv4 or whatever you like, but recently I have become more and more interested in finding and easy way to subnet IPv6 prefixes in my head like we are used to doing in IPv4. … Continue reading
Ubuntu Idyll Cisco Study Environment
I have written a few posts in which I mentioned the amazing GNS3/Dynamips/Dynagen set of tools that enable you emulate a Cisco network …. also a great too used to prepare for the Cisco CCIE lab exam [Professor of Internetworking] … Continue reading