Cisco HCI & Springpath – Some Questions
Now that Cisco is freed from the VCE/vBlock engagement (rumoured to be exclusive arrangement), most people are wondering why Cisco took so long to announce this. Cisco announced another HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform this week. I say “another” because Cisco already works with several partners for Converged and Hyperconverged such as NetApp, VCE, Simplicity and […]
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Data Center Interconnect Design Options
An analysis of the various technologies available for Layer 2 DCI, including Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization.
Next-Generation Firewalls Put To The Test
NSS Labs released results of its annual NGFW testing. How does your NGFW rate?
SDS And Flash: Better Together
Software-defined storage and flash complement each other in the data center.
Time To Face Up To Collaboration
Eric Krapf, chair of Interop's Collaboration Track and GM of Enterprise Connect, discusses why you can’t put off focusing on collaborative technologies much longer, why multiple communication channels are essential for the modern workplace, and how new technologies can enable increased functionality.
Learn more about the Collaboration Track and register for Interop, May 2-6 in Las Vegas.
5 ways to fail – WAN link acceptance
I’ve had an interesting few months doing WAN circuit turn-ups for a new Data Centre. I dealt with three major carriers, and each experience was worse than the next. I’m not sure why I held such high expectations but I was surprised by their hopeless inefficiency in delivering what should have been a standard product. In this post I’ll examine the problems I saw and their root causes.
In all three situations, 1Gbps Layer-2 ethernet circuit was ordered with a copper ethernet handoff from a rack-installed NID/NTU/whatever-you-call-it-yourself. Lets look at the five issues I hit whilst troubleshooting.
Link up at both ends – No CDP received
There was a lot of blaming the end-customer on this one. “Are you sure that CDP is enabled?”. There was a huge amount of frustration here. The carrier would send an email to confirm that ‘they had tested’, provide no actionable details of their troubleshooting, then close the ticket. This went on for days bouncing between the annoyingly named ‘deliver’ and ‘assure’ teams. The ‘deliver’ team felt they had delivered the circuit and the ‘assure’ team assured us that the circuit wasn’t live and they couldn’t help us.
The ‘deliver’ team felt they had delivered the circuit and the ‘assure’ Continue reading
5 ways to fail – WAN link acceptance
I’ve had an interesting few months doing WAN circuit turn-ups for a new Data Centre. I dealt with three major carriers, and each experience was worse than the next. I’m not sure why I held such high expectations but I was … Continue reading
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Network-CI Part 2 – Small Network Demo
In this post I’ll demonstrate how to use the network-ci tools to automate the build, test and upgrade of a small 4-node network.
Continue readingHow fast is your network?
You always wonder how fast is your network, right? How long does it take the information travel over the network? I will share with you this special article, which you can use to find the speed of your network and define it with a numerical number. I will use ring, partial mesh and full-mesh physical topologies to […]
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How fast is your network?
You always wonder how fast is your network, right? How long does it take the information travel over the network? I will share with you this special article, which you can use to find the speed of your network and define it with a numerical number. I will use ring, partial mesh and full-mesh physical topologies to […]
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How fast is your network ?
How fast is your network ? You always wonder how fast is your network right ? How long does it take the information travel over the network ? I will share a special article for you which you can use to find the speed of your network and define it with a numerical number. I will use […]
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Data Center Fabrics and SDN
A few days ago Inside-IT published an interview Christoph Jaggi did with me. In case you don’t understand German, here’s the English version of it.
There is a lot of talk about data center fabrics. What problem do they try to solve?
The data center fabrics are supposed to solve a simple-to-define problem: building a unified data center infrastructure that seamlessly supports data and storage communications. As always, the devil hides in the details.
Read more ...New Address
To make this blog a little easier to find, I’ve pointed rule11.us here as well. ntwrk.guru will continue to work, as well, but people seem to have a hard time remembering the url, so I added a second one.
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400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks
Over the last month, we’ve been watching some of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen unfold. As CloudFlare has grown we've brought on line systems capable of absorbing and accurately measuring attacks. Since we don't need to resort to crude techniques to block traffic we can measure and filter attacks with accuracy. Our systems sort bad packets from good, keep websites online and keep track of attack packet rates and bits per second.
The current spate of large attacks are all layer 3 (L3) DDoS. Layer 3 attacks consist of a large volume of packets hitting the target network, and the aim is usually to overwhelm the target network hardware or connectivity.
L3 attacks are dangerous because most of the time the only solution is to acquire large network capacity and buy beefy networking hardware, which is simply not an option for most independent website operators. Or, faced with huge packet rates, some providers simply turn off connections or entirely block IP addresses.
A Typical Day At CloudFlare
Historically, L3 attacks were the biggest headache for CloudFlare. Over the last two years, we’ve automated almost all of our L3 attack handling and these automatic systems protect Continue reading
An open letter to Sec. Ashton Carter
Hi.For security research, I regularly "mass scan" the entire Internet. For example, my latest scan shows between 250,000 and 300,000 devices still vulnerable to Heartbleed. This is legal. This is necessary security research. Yet, I still happily remove those who complain and want me to stop scanning them.
The Department of Defense didn't merely complain, but made threats, forcing me to stop scanning them. You guys were quite nasty about it, forcing me to figure out for myself which address ranges belong to the DoD.
These threats are likely standard procedure at the DoD, investigating every major source of scans and shutting down those you might have power over. But the effect of this is typical government corruption, preventing me from reporting the embarrassing detail of how many DoD systems are still vulnerable to Heartbleed (but without stopping the Chinese or Russians from knowing this detail).
Please remove your threats, so that I can scan the DoD in the same way I scan the rest of the Internet. This weekend I'll be scanning the Internet for system susceptible to the DROWN attack. I would like to include DoD in those scans.
I write to you now because you are Continue reading
Cisco Enterprise NFV, DNA, IWAN and a bunch of other acronyms
So Cisco had some big announcements today. Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Ohhh, sounds fancy. Let me put on something a little more formal before I get too involved in the post. So what are all these awesome acronyms, you may be wondering? Well basically we start with DNA, which is the overall ecosystem that […]
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