On this week's show we look at the fallout from the Ashley Madison attack. Did Brian Krebs just dox the Impact Team ringleader? Is he Australian?
Adam Boileau and I talk about all the AshMad fallout and other infosec news.
Less than two weeks ago I wrote a post about an Ansible module called ntc_show_command. For those that didn’t read that post, you should, but ntc_show_command is a multi-vendor module that can automate converting raw text from show commands into structured data, namely JSON.
We’ve already had several pull requests enhancing the architecture, so the community support is off to a great start! But in order to really make an impact, we (me, you, and fellow network engineers) need to continue to contribute templates to the project repository. Templates are key to converting the raw text into JSON.
This post will walk through how to create a template for two different commands. We’ll take a look at show version for Cisco NX-OS and display version for HP Comware 7.
The first thing that we’ll need to do is get the raw text output that we want to JSONify. We’ll start with show version.
Below is the sample output that we’ll work with and this file will be saved as tests/cisco_nxos/cisco_nxos_show_version.raw within our project directory.
Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (C) 2002-2014, Cisco and/or its affiliates.
All rights reserved.
The copyrights to certain Continue reading
Cloud-based storage needs a disconnect, the startup believes.
Codec negotiation is a topic that gets glossed over without much consideration in the studies of most students. There’s really not much to it, right? All we have to do is slap a couple of Regions on two different system endpoints and…voila, we have successfully negotiated a codec! Can it be that simple? Like most answers to rhetorical questions in the tech world, “It depends.” A simplistic approach like the one just described above is a great place to start, but it doesn’t take into account key call flow elements such as early/delayed offer, Audio Codec Preference Lists, or call routing across CUBE, CUCM or CUCME. What if the codec should be different based on the originator of the call? These are all examples of key issues involving codec negotiation that we must wrap our mind around if we are to be successful in our CCIE Collaboration endeavors.
Let’s examine the requirement of routing a call between a 9971 Phone registered to the HQ CUCM cluster (HQ Phone 1) and a 7965 Phone registered to the SB CUCM cluster (SB Phone 1). In this example, consider that a SIP Trunk is configured directly between clusters in order to route Continue reading
Two weeks ago I finished creating a network host based on Linux Core 6.3 installed on WMware x86-64 virtual machine. I loaded Core Linux with several network extensions that allows host to generate, measure, route network traffic and scan networks. I also wrote a short article that contains a list of loaded extension.
Then I went further with the project and my goal was to build L3 switch and router based on Core Linux 6.3 loaded with Open vSwitch, Quagga, Bird and Keepalived extension. Those are the right extensions that turned the network host to routing and switching appliance. Furthermore the routing daemons Quagga and Bird and multilayer switch Open vSwitch are used in many large production networks.
The R&S appliance I built can be used for learning networking on Linux, routing and switching. It is available for download in Download section. For those who are interested in installation steps the whole process of extension installation is described in this article.
The virtual VMware appliance is based on Linux Core network host image and it contains all the extensions listed here plus the following extensions:
openvswitch - 2.4.90
quagga - 0.99.24.1
bird - 1.5.0
keepalived - 1.2.19
Note Continue reading
ECI's LightApps is helping Sweden's transportation agency use its network more efficiently.
In the middle of 2014, Justin Warren sent me a series of interview questions on the topic of why I hate ITIL so much. The process of writing a response got me … um, motivated and spat a substantial amount of bile. Here it is. Why do you hate ITIL so much? How did you […]
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This is the first of a four part series on open source versus open standards.
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Peter Thiel, VC, PayPal co-founder, early Facebook investor, and most importantly, the supposed inspiration for Silicon Valley's intriguing Peter Gregory character, argues in his book Zero to One that a successful business needs to make a product that is 10 times better than its closest competitor.
The title Zero to One refers to the idea of progress as either horizontal/extensive or vertical/intensive. For a more detailed explanation take a look at Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay.
Horizontal/extensive progress refers to copying things that work. Observe, imitate, and repeat. The one word summary for the concept is "globalization.” For more on this PAYPAL MAFIA: Reid Hoffman & Peter Thiel's Master Class in China is an interesting watch.
Vertical/intensive progress means doing something genuinely new, that is going from zero to one, as apposed to going from one to N, which is merely globalization. This is the creative spark. The hero's journey of over coming obstacles on the way to becoming the Master of the Universe you were always meant to be.
We see this pattern with Google a lot. Google often hits scaling challenges long before anyone else and because they have a systematizing culture they Continue reading
What can SkySecure do for you? Get your more important workloads into the cloud without worry.
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Here at Ansible, we normally leave it up to our good friend @Ansibull to deploy the puns. But having just joined Ansible in the past few weeks, I’ve been spending some time getting acquainted with the vast quantity of Ansible resources produced by the lovely folks in the community, and I have to say, the amount of great content out there is just…
In-cow-cula-bull.
This is especially great for those of us looking how to do Ansible + $justaboutanything: Ansible + OpenStack, Ansible + Drupal, Ansible + CoreOS, or, as you may have guessed, Ansible + Docker.
Of course, Ansible has some useful resources for how to use Docker with Ansible. But the beautiful thing about what all of our friends in the community are writing is that they’re sharing all the things they learned along the way, how it helped out their company or workplace, what puzzles they had to solve; basically, things you may run into yourself, or ideas that may be inspiring to you that you hadn’t thought of just yet.
And to not share those things with everyone else? That would be, ahem, unthinka-bull. So without further ado: Here’s just a little bit of the latest Continue reading
A looming deadline and the recent stock panic are fueling talks of VMware acquiring EMC.