CloudRouter Moves Its Open Source vRouter Into Beta
Does the SDN world want an independent virtual router?
Software and the bogeyman
This post about the July 8 glitches (United, NYSE, WSJ failed) keeps popping up in my Twitter timeline. It's complete nonsense.What's being argued here is that these glitches were due to some sort of "moral weakness", like laziness, politics, or stupidity. It's a facile and appealing argument, so scoundrels make it often -- to great applause from the audience. But it's not true.
Legacy
Layers and legacies exist because working systems are precious. More than half of big software projects are abandoned, because getting new things to work is a hard task. We place so much value on legacy, working old systems, because the new replacements usually fail.
An example of this is the failed BIND10 project. BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, is the oldest and most popular DNS server. It is the de facto reference standard for how DNS works, more so than the actual RFCs. Version 9 of the project is 15 years old. Therefore, the consortium that maintains it funded development for version 10. They completed the project, then effectively abandoned it, as it was worse in almost every way than the previous version.
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Installing netmiko on Windows
Netmiko is a Python module by Kirk Byers that provides a wrapper around the Paramiko SSH module for doing screen scraping and CLI automation on network devices.Paramiko has some dependencies that make installation on Windows a tad tricky. Here's a quick way to get it done:
- Install Anaconda.
- From the Anaconda shell, run "conda install paramiko".
- From the Anaconda shell, run "pip install scp".
- Install git for Windows.
- Clone netmiko with "git clone https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko"
- cd into the netmiko directory and run "python setup.py install".
Installing netmiko on Windows
Netmiko is a Python module by Kirk Byers that provides a wrapper around the Paramiko SSH module for doing screen scraping and CLI automation on network devices.Paramiko has some dependencies that make installation on Windows a tad tricky. Here's a quick way to get it done:
- Install Anaconda.
- From the Anaconda shell, run "conda install paramiko".
- From the Anaconda shell, run "pip install scp".
- Install git for Windows.
- Clone netmiko with "git clone https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko"
- cd into the netmiko directory and run "python setup.py install".
Playing in the Lab: LiveAction Administrative Fun
I’m newer to LiveAction but what I have seen thus far I have definitely liked. But admittedly with GUIs I sometimes still feel like a “CLI girl living in a GUI world”.
During the past week I was noticing that when I was in my Live Action client view… looking at the “dashboard” I would suddenly find myself back at the main LiveAction client view. I asked a co-worker name Robert if he had ever seen that before. He had not. So I showed it to him. He noticed something I had not. There seemed to be a “trigger event” that was associated with the changing screens.
…. Hope you have fun with the video and playing in the lab with me. 
Click on the diagram below to go play.
Approx time: 16 Minutes
More ProxyHam stuff
Somebody asked how my solution in the last post differed from the "ProxyGambit" solution. They missed my point. Just because I change the tires on the car doesn't mean I get credit for inventing or building the car. The same thing with this ProxyHam nonsense: nobody is "building a solution". Instead, we are all just using existing products the way they are intended. We are all just choosing a different mix of components.People get all excited when they see a bare Raspberry Pi board, but the reality is that there's nothing interesting going on here, no more than lifting the hood/bonnet on your car. This is photograph from ProxyGambit:
What ProxyGambit is doing here is using cellular data on the far end rather stealing WiFi from Starbucks or the local library. Their solution looks fancy, but you can do the same thing with off-the-shelf devices for a lot cheaper. Here is the same solution with off-the-shelf products:
This is just a TL-WR703N ($26) router with a 3G USB dongle. You can get these dongles cheap off eBay used, or new for around $17. Combined, they are cheaper than a Raspberry PI. If you want to customize this, Continue reading
Network Break 44
Network Break 44 analyzes cloud spending numbers from IDC, the impact of virtual appliances on hardware purchases, EMC and Symantec storage moves, and a new OpenStack appliance from Mirantis.
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Open Compute Software Interface Platform Control Demonstration
This four minute demonstration from Mellanox is really well done. It provides a simple and direct demonstration of the OCP Platform Control system. I note the simplicity of the linux commands to drive the configuration of the switch. Especially, if you use Ansible/Puppet etc, you will appreciate how easy it is to configure and monitor […]
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Network Break 44
Network Break 44 analyzes cloud spending numbers from IDC, the impact of virtual appliances on hardware purchases, EMC and Symantec storage moves, and a new OpenStack appliance from Mirantis.
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Let users choose enterprise cloud applications
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.
Asked whether he was considering a cloud application for his company, a CIO of a mid-size organization said the downside risk of ripping and replacing the company’s existing on-premises application outweighed the productivity gains the cloud application might bring. Part of that risk, he felt, was his job security.
That sentiment is common. IT professionals, after all, are responsible for keeping the organization’s applications running and ensuring the security of sensitive data. When they do decide to make a software change, IT leaders traditionally consider criteria such as:
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Objectivity Never Rests
Being an independent part of the IT community isn’t an easy thing. There is a lot of writing involved and an even greater amount of research. For every word you commit to paper there is at least an hour of taking phone calls and interviewing leaders in the industry about topics. The rewards can be legion. So can the pitfalls. Objectivity is key, yet that is something where entire communities appear to be dividing.
Us Or Them
Communities are complex organisms with their own flow and feel. What works well in one community doesn’t work well in another. Familiarity with one concept doesn’t immediately translate to another. However, one thing that is universal across all communities is the polarization between extremes.
For instance, in the networking community this polarization is best characterized by the concept of “ABC – Anything But Cisco”. Companies make millions selling Cisco equipment every year. Writers and speakers can make a very healthy career from covering Cisco technologies. And yet there are a large number of companies and people that choose to use other options. They write about Juniper or install Brocade. They spend time researching Cumulus Linux or Big Switch Networks.
Knowing a little about Continue reading
