Packet Design will be exhibiting at MPLS/SDN 2013 from November 17-20 in Washington, D.C. We'll be showcasing Route-Flow Fusion℠ from our booth where you can pick up one of our new 'Now I know everything' T-shirts.
Register to attend the event here:
http://www.isocore.com/mpls2013/registration/attendees.htm
I've had enough real life experience with replacing drives in the ZFS pool in my home NAS that I feel comfortable sharing this information with the community.
It’s only been a couple of short weeks since this site officially launched. I have to say that I’m thrilled with the initial ‘buzz’ around the site. Many friends from various other technical blogs and social networking circles have shared The Tech Interview with their friends. In addition to thanking everyone for sharing this site, […]
The post How Can The Tech Interview Help Fill the Technical Career Gap? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
Was knocking my head against a brick wall trying to configure an ACE for management for a couple of days. Turns out, it does not permit ICMP to it by default.
This is a good place to start:
So you need to configure a class map classifying ICMP traffic from specific sources as being interesting, a policy map referencing the class map, an action for matching traffic and then apply that using the “service-policy” command to the interface you want to permit traffic to.
Everything is well as long as it’s only management traffic you want to permit to this address.
Barbie films (yes, I really am talking about Barbie in a network blog post) are a big hit with my kids, and surprisingly with me too. I’ll possibly regret telling the world that, but anyway, there’s an exchange in one film* that always make me laugh. It goes like this. Human (Australian accent): “You’re bonkers!” […]
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How does the internet work - We know what is networking
This story will be a turning point for my blog future starting with a change in writing methods and changing those methods to a more causal fashion. INTRO For now all my text here where somehow depersonalized and tech oriented in a way that it was all written like in some book. User manual to me concise. Maybe this […]
So, there I was, innocently browsing the OpenDaylight wiki after listening to Show 148 – Talking With OpenDaylight Leadership when I came across the OpenDaylight Command Line Interface page. I’ve not gone through the entire 118 pages (if I were to print it) worth of content, but I’ve scanned through a fair chunk and read the CLI Concepts section in […]
The post The Attributes of a Great CLI appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
Cisco Live is a wonderful opportunity to meet people and have in-depth technical discussions. For me, I find this event to be a great venue to finally see those that I have had numerous online interactions with. It serves as a way to elevate these relationships to a new level. In John’s article entitled “Build […]
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I’ve just passed a year of my job working at a smallish non-profit, and one part that I really am enjoying is passing on knowledge to the front-line staff. This week, there was an interesting case, and I had to explain to my colleagues what was happening and why. So, I did a little demo, and […]
The post Fun With Unmanaged Switches + Port Security appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.
The other day I came across an article, “Industry execs: Network admins an endangered species,” and I have to say, the headline did its job. I had to read more.
Executives from HP and Juniper, in particular, contend that network virtualization, and specifically Software-Defined Networking (SDN), will bring new levels of automation to networks, which in turn will lower operational costs because network administrators will no longer be needed. Specifically, their argument is that administrative or “people” expense is much higher than equipment costs, so automating will eliminate significant expense.
That’s one way to look at it I suppose. However, I would suggest that automation presents new opportunities for the networking team.
It is true that achieving significant OPEX savings is a key part of our discussion with customers when we talk about Embrane’s network services automation solutions that are being implemented today in enterprise data centers. However, we don’t talk about it in the context of, “how many heads can I cut?” Instead, our conversations center around how our customers can best use the people they have, and what tools are needed to enable the right level of talent to perform the right tasks.
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I’ve a few things to thank Ivan for this last week. First off, this post led me to some great career-related articles and really got me thinking on the subject. Also, should I ever feel the need, I can now don my smarty pants, slip on my clever clogs and impress those around me by somehow […]
The post You’ve Changed – SDN’s Casualties appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Steven Iveson.
Welcome to another lofty episode of Healthy Paranoia where we take on the profound problem of security certifications, specifically the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Joining Mrs. Y and Greg Ferro is an illustrious cast of infosec luminaries, including; well-known security analyst Wendy Nather, Novainfosec.com founder Grecs, IPv6 fanatic Joe Klein, and the enigmatic […]
The post Healthy Paranoia Show 13: To CISSP, Or Not To CISSP appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Mrs. Y.
When I refreshed my pod catcher today, I found that Packet Pushers had just released an episode that deals with career issues. This particular episode is a discussion between Greg Ferro and two less experienced technicians. Of these two gentleman, one has two years of experience and the other has only about one year of […]
The post Packet Pushers Show 149 – Discussion of Real World Problems with Entry Techs appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
