Noction releases IRP 3.10
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SD-WAN Security Under the Hood
A while ago we published a guest blog post by Christoph Jaggi explaining the high-level security challenges of most SD-WAN solutions… but what about the low-level details?
Sergey Gordeychik dived deep into implementation details of SD-WAN security in his 35C3 talk (slides, video).
TL&DW: some of the SD-WAN boxes are as secure as $19.99 Chinese webcam you bought on eBay.
Read more ...Working with ExaBGP 4
One of my goals this year was to spend more time doing Python development so I thought I’d take a break from the MPLS deep dives (no worries – there are still lots more coming) and insert some development type things along the way. One of the opensource projects I’ve used in the past was ExaBGP by the folks over at Exa-Networks. Since then – they’ve released a new version (4) and I’ve been keen to play around with it some more.
The last time I played with ExaBGP was strictly from a testing perspective. This time – I want to focus on some use cases that are closer to real life. Things you might actually do – or at the very least – try. So to start things off – we’re going to once again start with a basic lab that looks like this…
So here we have our 2 friendly end users connected at the head to a small simple network. left_user is attached to an Ubuntu 18 server called ‘bgp_peer’ which is then connected to two other routers (Juniper vMX) and finally our friendly right_user. To start with – we’re going to configure the routers vMX1 and Continue reading
Juniper RIPng
4 steps to configure RIPng. Define a RIPng group Assign interfaces to the RIPng group Define a routing policy to export routes Assign the routing policy to the RIPng group Configuration Define a RIPng group. cmd set protocols ripng group RIPNG-GROUP Assign...continue reading
Headcount: The Latest in Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — February 6, 2019
VMware loses one executive and gains another from Oracle; Puppet gets a new CEO.
Deep Dive on cli_command for Network Automation
In October Ansible 2.7 was released and brought us two powerful agnostic network modules, cli_command and cli_config. Do you have two or more network vendors within your environment? The goal of agnostic modules is to simplify Ansible Playbooks for network engineers that deal with a variety of network platforms. Rather than having to deal with platform specific modules (e.g. eos_config, ios_config, junos_config), you can now use cli_command or cli_config to reduce the amount of tasks and conditionals within a playbook, and make the playbook easier to use. This post will demonstrate how to use these modules and contrast them to platform specific modules. I’ll show some playbook examples and common use cases to help illustrate how you can use these new platform agnostic modules.
Both the cli_command and cli_config only work with the network_cli connection plugin. For those unfamiliar with the network_cli connection plugin check out this blog post I did last April. The goal of network_cli is to make playbooks look, feel and operate on network devices, the same way Ansible works on Linux hosts.
What can you do with the cli_command?
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Huawei and ZTE Face New Bans and Legislation
Huawei and ZTE's list of woes continue as Germany, Canada, Poland, and the U.S. all appear to be working to impose new bans.
6WIND Snares Another Former Brocade vRouter Customer
JHComp, an ISP based in the Czech Republic, migrated from its legacy Vyatta vRouters to the 6WIND platform without having to reconfigure its SuperMicro white boxes.
Google Goes All In on Confidential Computing
The cloud giant wants the rest of the industry to get behind its open source confidential computing framework. And it launched a $15K challenge to accelerate this technology.
Creating a Net-DevOps environment.
TL;DR : Code is here. Help yourself ? Introduction to the Net-DevOps Container: Recently, Ethan Banks posted a very interesting blog post where he struggled a little bit to set up a Python environment. If I understood correctly, he wanted to increase his skills set in particular with NetDevOps. He fairly pointed that it could be a bit complicated to handle all the dependencies you might need. Based on the fact that you also want to start fresh between projects you want to spend the least amount of time resolving these kinds of issues and maximize your time on something that is valuable: Learn how to Automate or just Automate your network environment. A lot of people are in a [Read More...]
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Why NVMe Will Flash Forward in 2019
Disaggregated storage has become the norm in large-scale infrastructure and we expect that in 2019 those who are pushing the limits with NVMe will have quite a successful year—vendors as well as their hyperscale and high performance computing users. …
Why NVMe Will Flash Forward in 2019 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Fujitsu SDN and Optical Transport Stitched Into Shaw’s Canadian Fiber Net
The Fujitsu components are layered on top of a previous Shaw coax upgrade to provide network speeds in excess of 1 Gb/s.
Network Dictionary: logging
The concept of logging dates to sailing ships and they got it wrong too.
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Fortinet Introduces Intent-Based Next-Gen Firewalls
This approach provides a granular level of security control by matching functionality to specific use cases and business requirements.
Day Two Cloud 002: How To Do Cloud Right
The promises of the public cloud are both tantalizing and frightening. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about how to do cloud right to maximize success, while also not putting yourself out of a job. Our guest is Kenny Lowe, Senior Principal Azure Stack Technologist at Dell EMC.Day Two Cloud 002: How To Do Cloud Right
The promises of the public cloud are both tantalizing and frightening. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about how to do cloud right to maximize success, while also not putting yourself out of a job. Our guest is Kenny Lowe, Senior Principal Azure Stack Technologist at Dell EMC.
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vArmour Closes $44M Series E, Pushes Multi-Cloud Compliance
CEO Tim Eades won’t comment on his company’s valuation. But he says the investment puts it on track for an IPO and profitability within the next 12 to 18 months.
Better business results from faster web applications – Cloudflare is the fastest
Web performance encompasses a lot of things: page load time, responsiveness for web and mobile applications. But overall, the key element is response times. How quickly can the origin server or the cache fulfill a user request? How quickly can a DNS response reach the client device?
The Cloudflare mission is to help build a better Internet to everyone, and we offer multiple services for boosting the speed and performance of our customers and users. Cloudflare is faster than the competition when it comes to accelerating performance.
How site speed impacts the bottom line
There is a lot of research out there that confirms what many businesses and web developers already know: speed affects revenue. Better web performance means better user engagement and more conversions. Better performance also results in better SEO, driving up overall traffic numbers and increasing lead generation, sales, or ad revenue.
One study by Google and Bing concluded that on average, a two-second delay in a website's page rendering led to a 4.3% loss in revenue per visitor. Another independent study has shown that 1 additional second of load time reduces conversions by 7%.
How does using Cloudflare affect performance?
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