A better way to monitor the end-user experience

The concept of user performance management (UPM) is easy to understand but very difficult to implement. The Holy Grail of UPM would be a single, unified dashboard where IT operations would be able to “see” the status of every user. If a website were taking too long to load or an application were performing poorly, the operations staff could click on that user and immediately see where the problem is. One challenge for IT departments is that today’s user isn’t always a person. Thanks to the rise in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, “headless” clients that provide critical services to users now pump data through the network. For example, medical devices deliver time-critical information that can be the difference between life and death. Getting a grip on how these headless devices are performing on the network has become a daunting task for IT staff. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

MC-LAG lab – advanced IRB functionality

For simplified Layer 3 gateway services, where Layer 3 routing protocols are not run on the MC-LAG peers, you simply configure the same Layer 3 gateway IP address on both MC-LAG peers and enable IRB MAC address synchronization. This IP address is used as the default gateway for the MC-LAG servers or hosts.
For more advanced Layer 3 gateway services, where Layer 3 routing protocols and Layer 3 multicast operations are required on the MC-LAG peers, you configure unique IRB interface addresses on each MC-LAG peer and then configured the virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) between the peers in an active/standby role.
To help with some forwarding operations, the IRB MAC address of each peer is replicated on the other peer and is installed as a MAC address with the forwarding next hop of the ICL-PL. This is achieved by configuring a static ARP entry for the remote peer.

IRB interfaces configurations:

vQFX1:
irb {
    unit 100 {
        family inet {
            address 172.16.0.1/24 {
                arp 172.16.0.2 l2-interface xe-0/ Continue reading

Is DefCon Wifi safe?

DEF CON is the largest U.S. hacker conference that takes place every summer in Las Vegas. It offers WiFi service. Is it safe?

Probably.

The trick is that you need to download the certificate from https://wifireg.defcon.org and import it into your computer. They have instructions for all your various operating systems. For macOS, it was as simple as downloading "dc25.mobileconfig" and importing it.

I haven't validated the DefCon team did the right thing for all platforms, but I know that safety is possible. If a hacker could easily hack into arbitrary WiFi, then equipment vendors would fix it. Corporations widely use WiFi -- they couldn't do this if it weren't safe.

The first step in safety is encryption, obviously. WPA does encryption well, you you are good there.

The second step is authentication -- proving that the access-point is who it says it is. Otherwise, somebody could setup their own access-point claiming to be "DefCon", and you'd happily connect to it. Encrypted connect to the evil access-point doesn't help you. This is what the certificate you download does -- you import it into your system, so that you'll trust only the "DefCon" access-point that has Continue reading

Last 10 days for the August 2017 CCDE Online Bootcamp

My Webex based, Online CCDE Bootcamp will start in 10 days.    August 7, 2017 is the first day of my live CCDE Bootcamp.   As the best CCDE Training, I will cover all CCDE Blueprint topics as usual. Before and after the Bootcamp, there are many other resources which you will go through. These […]

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Moved to new house , Finished the new course but !

I have been very busy for last one month.   I announced 2 , 3 months before Service Provider Design Workshop and conducted it at last two weekends.   I moved to new house, lot’s of things to deal with, believe me. First time I will share the photos of it here.   Meanwhile I […]

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The Supercomputing Slump Hits HPC

Supercomputing, by definition, is an esoteric, exotic, and relatively small slice of the overall IT landscape, but it is, also by definition, a vital driver of innovation within IT and in all of the segments of the market where simulation, modeling, and now machine learning are used to provide goods and services.

As we have pointed out many times, the supercomputing business is not, however, one that is easy to participate in and generate a regular stream of revenues and predictable profits and it is most certainly one where the vendors and their customers have to, by necessity, take the …

The Supercomputing Slump Hits HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Reaffirming the Internet as a Force for Good: The Next 25 Years

To mark its 25th Anniversary, the Internet Society is beginning a global dialogue on the impact of the Internet on societies.  So far, we have held discussions at Chatham House in London, and opened up the dialogue in a recent public forum with more than 100 participants from 30 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia. 

Konstantinos Komaitis

Worth Reading: IPv4 route lookup on Linux

During the lifetime of an IPv4 datagram inside the Linux kernel, one important step is the route lookup for the destination address through the fib_lookup() function. From essential information about the datagram (source and destination IP addresses, interfaces, firewall mark, …), this function should quickly provide a decision. —Vincent Bernat @MTU Ninja

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