The other day I was called in to assist with issue that had been open for a few days. The primary reason for my involvement was to confirm network connectivity was permitted as required by a recently installed application. After an initial look, it was apparent that the application wasn’t even trying to access network […]
The post Have Respect For The Work You Do appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
For the past few years, many people have been suggesting that the days of IDS (intrusion detection system) are numbered. When IDS was first launched, it was seen as an answer to a lot of network security problems: deep packet inspection with constant monitoring and alerts. However, one of the biggest problems with IDS is […]
Lately I have been investigating how to monitor BGP peering session via SNMP instead of traps/syslog messages and I found out that this feature is not documented properly for IOS XR. Finally I managed to get it working, so I thought that it would be worth sharing with the community. In our example, we have […]
The post Monitoring VRFs on IOS-XR appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by David Barroso.
This is my third and probably last installment of an ongoing story about our quest for OpenFlow 1.0 capable switches with a specific requirement - the capability to modify L3 destination addresses. The background of why Sakura Internet needs such switches for the purpose of DDoS attack mitigation is explained in my first article, along with […]
The post Centec V330: My Kind of OpenFlow Switch appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Tamihiro Yuzawa.
Continuning on this week's theme of Markdown, I'll be explaining how to add Markdown to your blog in 3 easy steps.
Continuning on this week's theme of Markdown, I'll be explaining how to add Markdown to your blog in 3 easy steps.
From your Wordpress dashboard, head over to the Plugins tab and click
Add New. Search for "WP-Markdown" and install
Once your plugin has been installed, head on down to Settings >
Writing and scroll to the Markdown section pictured below.
Enable Markdown wherever you like, but I'd recommend pages and posts
WARNING: Enabling Markdown will affect your existing posts/pages. I noticed that while my posts didn't look any different on the outside, behind the scenes they were a mess and required a little trying up.
Create a new post or page and practice your Markdown-Fu. Not sure where to start? Here's an example
# This is a first level heading
Here is some body text
## Second level of heading here
### And a Third
#### And so on and so forth
- Now some bullets
- Hopefully you are getting the hang of this now
- It's pretty easy
> Blockquotes are easy with Markdown Continue readingContinuing on this week's theme of Markdown, I'll be explaining how to add Markdown to your blog in 3 easy steps.
For the last 6 months I've been using Markdown where I can. Since embarking on the path towards a more Agile approach to writing, it has been necessary to use Markdown more and more. This has led me towards using Pandoc Markdown rather than MultMarkdown as my dialect of choice and I hope to explain why.
For the last 6 months I've been using Markdown where I can. Since embarking on the path towards a more Agile approach to writing, it has been necessary to use Markdown more and more. This has led me towards using Pandoc Markdown rather than MultMarkdown as my dialect of choice and I hope to explain why.
If you haven't used Markdown already, you might be wondering what the fuss is about. Basically it is a way of writing markup in an easy-to-read, easy-to-write fashion. It decouples the act of writing from formatting/layout so the same source text can be used to produce multiple formats.
So what are the barriers to Markdown adoption? Personally I have found only two.
While I use Markdown, the rest of the company uses Microsoft Word - All of our corporate templates are in MS Word format - Neither Markdown or MultiMarkdown reliably export to MS Word format (yes MMD does ODF, but it doesn't handle images well)
The next issue is that Markdown to PDF conversion uses LaTeX. Unfortunately I neither have the time nor inclination to learn LaTeX. While it can be a powerful Continue reading
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I recently changed from MultiMarkdown to Pandoc. But I still wanted to use Marked app to preview my work…
I recently changed from MultiMarkdown to Pandoc. But I still wanted to use Marked app to preview my work…
Thankfully the author of Marked allowed for such an eventuality with the "Custom Processor" option.
To use this tick the box, put in your fully qualified path to pandoc and add your arguments and bob is your proverbial uncle. The quickest way to find out where pandoc is installed on your Mac is to type the following from the terminal.
which pandoc
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I’m sitting at my desk right now (9pm Sydney time), waiting for my 3am change window that I need to be onsite at the data centre for. Now I am supposed to be working on a presentation I am giving on Friday entitled “Automation, Orchestration, and SDN”. I’ve been given about 20 minutes to cover these topics, so I’m spending quite a bit of time trying to get the right mix of content without geeking out too far for the intended audience (C-levels, project managers and lead engineers).
While trying to get the mix just right, my mind keeps going back to a comment I made last week on the “APAC Virtualization Roundtable” podcast (Episode 74 “SDN & Virtualisation from a Network Engineers perspective”)…
“Increase the awesome, remove the mundane!”
While initially sounding facetious, this comment is kind of where my brain has been going of late when trying to work out where I should focus my energies. While I’m thinking of ways to apply this idea to many aspects of my life, I would like to present them in the context of the presentation I am about to give (and the same context to which Continue reading
How does the internet work - We know what is networking
DCCP transport layer protocol is used to control the datagram congestion. It provides an excellent procedure to stop the internet fall down, if it is caused by the congestion. In fact, this protocol is a brilliant competitor to be used as a substitute of UDP protocol. DCCP account DCCP congestion control trait by means of a reliable acknowledgments delivery (in form […]
I finished reading The Phoenix Project at the beginning of May and it has had a profound affect on my outlook towards work. Not only was this a great read, but while I was reading I kept getting ideas on how I could implement the three ways at work. This diary documents the transition to an Agile Writing workflow.
I finished reading The Phoenix Project at the beginning of May and it has had a profound affect on my outlook towards work. Not only was this a great read, but while I was reading I kept getting ideas on how I could implement the three ways at work. This diary documents the transition to an Agile Writing workflow.
Before I start covering the how, I thought I would spend a little time on the why. Agile is something that is usually associated with Software Development and you might be thinking "What has this got to do with writing?". I write technical documentation for a living, but I've been a long time have-a-go programmer and I recently had the pleasure of working on a professional software project. One of the things that amazed me was how Agile mad them so much more efficient.
It is actually quite easy to draw parallels between application development and writing technical documentation. A Continue reading