Recently Cloudflare made a pretty cool move, and made their IPv6 services available to all of their customers – even the free ones, like me! So first things first, huge kudos to Cloudflare for offering this up; it has offered … Continue reading
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Ready for that first #SDN job? How many jobs are available out there? Are there jobs with an SDN focus, or simply jobs that include SDN as just one small part of the job? Are SDN jobs really beginning to emerge?
Well, I too am curious about this kind of question. So a while back, I started tracking mentions of SDN on a couple of job sites: Dice.com and Monster.com. For today’s post, I’ll set the stage for how we’ve gathered the data. In the following posts, I’ll show the numbers for the 3rd quarter 2014.
A while back, I was wondering about the job market for networking jobs. We’re in the middle of a time when networking jobs may undergo a lot of change. Our individual preparation for our careers needs to consider both the existing world (where most of today’s jobs still are) and this possible future world with lots of SDN jobs. And I thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if someone would post articles on occasion about emerging SDN-related jobs, and compare that to existing networking jobs.”
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There was an interesting Twitter thread over the weekend initiated by Ethan Banks (@ecbanks). He commented that there was too much technique churn in SDN and NetOps (the networking equivalent of DevOps). His point was that in the face of all the change in how to do things, it left users in an impossible spot. How can up pick up a new technology if the frameworks around how to use it are consistently changing?
His conclusion was that we cannot herd these cats. But what is really going on?
The most basic truth here is that there is no real consensus on operating models around any of the new technology. While there are rough agreements on a few architectural principles (and even there, far more is in the air than well grounded), there is really not a lot of best practices to which companies can pin their operations.
Sure, it might be obvious to people that SDN is here to stay. But what exactly does that mean? And which SDN do I evaluate, purchase, and eventually deploy? Do I go with OpenFlow because ONF has convinced me that openness is the primary tenet? Do I Continue reading
Having just come off doing a presentation on “being a great engineer,” I can tell you what the number one question people asked was: Should I get a degree, or a certification? In fact, several people were irritated that Denise and I were even talking about anything else, because it’s the only question that counts.
Let me counter that thought. If you’re asking whether you should get a degree or a certification, you’re asking the wrong question.
It’s not that I don’t have anything invested in certifications. I hold a CCIE (2635), CCDE (2007:001), and CCAr. I’ve written questions for the CCIE. I was on the original SME team that invented the CCDE and CCAr certifications. I’ve taught certification classes, written certification books, and generally been involved in the certification world for a long time.
It’s not that I don’t have anything invested in college, either. I have one four year degree, two Master’s degrees, and I’m currently working like crazy to gain acceptance into an PhD program (Philosophy, in Apologetics and Culture, if you’re curious). I’ve taught as an adjunct in the NC State MS program, and I’m on Capella University’s advisory council. I teach on a regular basis Continue reading
Been looking for something like this for a while:
http://etherealmind.com/tech-notes-ping-sweep-ip-subnet/
for i in `seq 1 255`; do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$i | tr \n ‘ ‘ | awk ‘/1 received/ {print $2}'; done
I usually use nMAP for this, but in some instances you may not have access to it. For those times, Bash should work really well.
I have a little Samsung Galaxy S2 which is a perfectly adequate phone. I use the Google Apps on it to keep some semblance of order in my life. However, I run into some occasional bugs which require a bit of work to solve. So I’m putting in the fixes here so they’re easily available.
1. Weather widget displays an incorrect location. Documentation date 03.11.2014
This is fixed by going to Settings->Application Manager and performing a forced stop on the TouchWiz Home application.
2. Lockscreen displaying an incorrect location. Documentation date 03.11.2014
First I thought this was related to the first problem. However, this can be fixed by going to Applications->Security and changing the location detection to refresh automatically. It looks like adding a new city in the weather widget updates the location in the lockscreen, but removing it doesn’t force an update to the lockscreen.
More bugs will be documented here as they’re found.
This is part 18 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I talk about using layer 3 (L3) routing with VMware NSX but without network address translation (NAT). This post describes a configuration that offers yet another connectivity option for OpenStack cloud administrators and operators.
In part 6, I showed you how to add a gateway appliance to your NSX installation. Part 9 leveraged the gateway appliances to create a L3 gateway service, which—as I explained in part 15—provides the functionality for logical routers in OpenStack. (Logical routing was covered in part 14.) Part 16 expanded the routing configuration to support multiple external networks. This post expands the options again by showing you how to do logical routing without using network address translation (NAT). Of course, it would probably be helpful to read the entire series; links to all posts can be found on the Learning NVP/NSX page.
As I mentioned, so far you’ve seen three different external connectivity options:
Routing (layer 3 connectivity) to a single external network
Routing (layer 3 connectivity) to multiple external networks using VLANs
Bridging (layer 2 connectivity) between a logical network and a physical broadcast domain
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This is some of Russ White's finest writing on the career development using a lecture from CS Lewis as a baseline
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This is a continuation from last week’s post on provider peering streams. Second Example: Customer to Noncustomer Assume traffic is coming in from A and is destined to M. How can AS64501 maximize revenue stream in this situation? There is only place to make money (the [A,C] link), and there is one place where its […]
It doesn’t make sense to build a new data center network to support legacy bare-metal server infrastructure. You’ll have to use relatively expensive 1G/10G ports to be able to connect the current and future servers, and once the server and virtualization engineers wake up and do hardware refresh you’ll end up with way too many ports (oh, and you do know that transceivers could cost more than the switching hardware, right?).
Read more ...BYOD policies sound alluring. No more forced use of a crappy old corporate laptop – “hey look, we’ll let you choose whatever you want!” But I think it is a way to shift the cost burden over to employees. It will be done slowly, over several years, and we’ll welcome it. But it will lead to employees carrying more costs. I guess we should be careful with what we wish for.
In my teens I spent many years working in the produce & butchery departments at a local supermarket. When I started out, the contracts still had the last vestiges of union-dominated times. So we got paid allowances for laundry, extra allowances if we’d passed some school exams, higher rates for overtime, meal allowances, etc. During the years I was there, these were eroded. Each year they gave us pay rises that were nominally higher than inflation, and yet another allowance was ‘incorporated’ into my wages. Sometimes allowances would remain for older employees. When I left, I was being paid significantly more than new employees, in part because I still had several extra allowances.
I think we’ll see the same thing with BYOD programs. I think it will go like this:
Someone recently asked me to be a professional mentor, an occurrence that becomes more surreal the longer I consider it in its implications and entirety. So far the recipient of my educational transgressions appears content, but the experience has reminded me of several ranty moments I’ve had over the years regarding what new network geeks […]
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About a week ago, I took my wife’s van to the shop. The main issue was it was making a popping noise in the front end. I only observed the noise when steering sharply and the vehicle was in motion. Typically this occurred when parking. Although I was nearly certain this was an issue with a CV joint, I only told the mechanic about the symptoms we had observed.
The reason I didn’t lead the conversation to the CV joint is that I wanted the mechanic to look at the problem objectively. I knew he was the expert and I wanted him to solve the problem instead of replacing a part. In order to shift the responsibility, I needed the mechanic to diagnose the problem and create a plan of action.
At this point in my career, I have worked in various areas of technology. Over the years, I’ve had customers that tell me exactly what they think they need. In some cases, they’re correct. However, there are times that their solution does not fully solve the problem they are observing. On the other hand, some customers take a smarter approach and explain the problem they are trying to solve.
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Today’s Secret Sunday is a shout out to the excellent Jeff Fry, aka @FryGuy_PA on Twitter. Jeff blogs at FryGuy.net where among other things he has previously broken the news on upcoming Cisco products a couple of times by close … Continue reading
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If you’re just starting out working with ‘Enterprise’ products, you may not have come across Support Lifecycles. It’s important to know what these are, and how it affects you. They can have both a positive & a negative impact on when and why you choose to upgrade systems.
Developers would like to only support the latest version. But customers can’t/won’t always run the latest version. They need to know that they can expect a certain level of support for the version they’re running. As a compromise, software vendors will publish a support lifecycle policy. This will outline the levels of support a product gets, from new product introduction, through to being superceded, and finally moved to end of support. Typical phases include:
This stuff still totally blows my mind. I was at a restaurant for lunch recently with some colleagues. Service was slow, and as a result I was going to be late back to the office, and I had to join a … Continue reading
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Continuing our regular look at the news in Networking and Cloud.
The post Network Break 19 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Shellshock was released a little over a month ago, to wide predictions of doom & gloom. But somehow the Internet survived, and we lurch on towards the next crisis. I recently gave a talk about Shellshock, the fallout, and some thoughts on wider implications and the future. The talk wasn’t recorded, so here’s a summary of what was discussed.
Attend enough meetings, and sooner or later you’ll be called upon to present. I was ‘volunteered’ to speak on Shellshock, about a month after the exploit was made public. I didn’t talk about the technical aspects of the exploit itself – instead I explored some of the wider implications, and industry trends. I felt the talk went well, mainly because it wasn’t just me talking: everyone got involved and contributed to the discussion. It would be a bit Continue reading
