New to networking? Or maybe just new to Packet Pushers? Want to know which shows will help you build a foundation? Here you go. These shows cover major networking concepts, take on emerging technologies, and provide context for what we might talk about in other shows.
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If I were a bit more snarky, I’d be tempted to say something like, “well, if you add a small hello protocol to each of the applets to monitor neighbor reachability, and a small protocol that can exchange local reachability information, and then perhaps a local algorithm to determine which path is the shortest, you can reinvent IS-IS.” But I’m not that snarky, of course…
I have come to believe that at least half of what we invent in the networking world is simply a product of not spending the time nor effort to study what’s already been invented, or the perception that what’s already been invented is “too complex,” and hence not stuff anyone wants to spend time learning nor understanding. A full three quarters of what remains is Continue reading
Join the Datanauts as they explore Apache Mesos, an open-source data center OS that abstracts compute, storage, and network to make it easier for applications to share resources.
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During my recent SDN workshops I encountered several networking engineers who use Nexus 1000V in their data center environment, and some of them claimed their organization decided to do so to ensure the separation of responsibilities between networking and virtualization teams.
There are many good reasons one would use Nexus 1000V, but the one above is definitely not one of them.
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1.4 Describe the purpose and basic operation of the protocols in the OSI and TCP/IP models
There are tons of books written on the OSI and TCP/IP model so I won’t describe these models in depth here. What I will do is explain what you need to know at each level and explain how the real world works. We have two models, one from OSI and one from DOD.
In the real life everyone references the OSI model. I’ve never heard anyone reference the DOD model which doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its merits but everyone always uses the OSI model as a reference.
The OSI model has seven layers but people sometimes joke that layer 8 is financial and layer 9 is political.
Starting out with the physical layer, what you need to know is auto negotiation. Auto negotiation is good, hard coding speed and duplex will no doubt lead to ports that are hard coded on one side and auto on the other side to end up in half duplex. Gone are the days when auto negotiation wasn’t compatible and lead to misconfigured Continue reading
In the last blog, I briefly mentioned about PCE and how BGP-LS can be used as one of the ways to collect the topology information. In this blog we will explore more about PCE, the problems it tries to solve and different elements of PCE. But before we go any deeper, I do want to […]
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EMC continues to complicate its corporate structure.
Dell sees the PC is part of a comprehensive strategy to serve customers from the end point all the way through to data center infrastructure.
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6WIND, a Packet Pushers sponsor, has been helping get the most networking performance from x86 hardware, making the acceleration software that other companies could use to make the most of their standard servers with multi-core CPUs and Linux. 6WIND has recently taken a further step, offering its own VNFs and virtual networking acceleration software packages to end users like you and me. For example, the Turbo Router and Turbo IPSEC appliances compete with virtual routers from Cisco and Brocade. 6WIND will be appearing on the Packet Pushers Priority Queue podcast near the end of October 2015.
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