MLAG Deep Dive: System Overview

Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) – the ability to terminate a Port Channel/Link Aggregation Group on multiple switches – is one of the more convoluted1 bridging technologies2. After all, it’s not trivial to persuade two boxes to behave like one and handle the myriad corner cases correctly.

In this series of deep dive blog posts, we’ll explore the intricacies of MLAG, starting with the data plane considerations and the control plane requirements resulting from the data plane quirks. If you wonder why we need all that complexity, remember that Ethernet networks still try to emulate the ancient thick yellow cable that could lose some packets but could never reorder packets or deliver duplicate packets.

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MLAG Deep Dive: System Overview

Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) – the ability to terminate a Port Channel/Link Aggregation Group on multiple switches – is one of the more convoluted1 bridging technologies2. After all, it’s not trivial to persuade two boxes to behave like one and handle the myriad corner cases correctly.

In this series of deep dive blog posts, we’ll explore the intricacies of MLAG, starting with the data plane considerations and the control plane requirements resulting from the data plane quirks. If you wonder why we need all that complexity, remember that Ethernet networks still try to emulate the ancient thick yellow cable that could lose some packets but could never reorder packets or deliver duplicate packets.

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Juniper vMX on GNS3

Juniper Network has several products tha can be run on virtualization (hypervisor), such as KVM and ESXi. Those products include vMX (router), vSRX (firewall / security), vQFX (switch), and so on. The virtual Juniper products ease us to deploy it on lab or simulator, even on the production environment, which is run on the hypervisor. […]
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6G cellular doesn’t exist, but it can be hacked

Arriving at a consensus on when 6G wireless will be widely available commercially is all but impossible, as this small sample size shows: Northeastern University researchers: More than five years, but probably not long after Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark: Definitely by 2030 ABI Research: Sometime in the 2030s A magic 8-ball I found in my basement: Reply hazy, try again [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Then there is this intriguing quatrain by 16th century French physician, astrologer and renowned seer Nostradamus:To read this article in full, please click here

6G cellular doesn’t exist, but it can be hacked

Arriving at a consensus on when 6G wireless will be widely available commercially is all but impossible, as this small sample size shows: Northeastern University researchers: More than five years, but probably not long after Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark: Definitely by 2030 ABI Research: Sometime in the 2030s A magic 8-ball I found in my basement: Reply hazy, try again [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Then there is this intriguing quatrain by 16th century French physician, astrologer and renowned seer Nostradamus:To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercomputer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercomputer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercompuer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS.Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.Frontier’s speed bumps down Fugaku at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, from number 1 on the TOPP500 list last fall to number 2 now. Fugaku scored 442 peta FLOPS (PFLOPS) on the  High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which measures how well systems solve a dense system of linear equations.To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercompuer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS.Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.Frontier’s speed bumps down Fugaku at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, from number 1 on the TOPP500 list last fall to number 2 now. Fugaku scored 442 peta FLOPS (PFLOPS) on the  High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which measures how well systems solve a dense system of linear equations.To read this article in full, please click here

Easier Network Visibility Using SaaS

The following post is by Sehjung Hah at VMware. We thank VMware for being a sponsor. Catch up and listen to VMware’s latest podcast with Packet Pushers introducing vRealize Network Insight Universal with Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance on Day 2 Cloud 145: Tech Bytes: Flexible Cloud Migration Using VMware vRealize Network Insight Universal. More details are available in […]

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Use bash to change an IP address from dynamic to static on Linux

Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not difficult, but requires a little care and a set of commands that you likely rarely use. This post provides a bash script that will run through the process, collect the needed information and then issue the commands required to make the changes while asking as little as possible from the person running it.The bulk of the script focusses on making sure that the correct settings are used. For example, it collects the 36-charater universally unique identifier (UUID) from the system so that you never have to type it in or copy and paste it into place. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

Use bash to change an IP address from dynamic to static on Linux

Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not difficult, but requires a little care and a set of commands that you likely rarely use. This post provides a bash script that will run through the process, collect the needed information and then issue the commands required to make the changes while asking as little as possible from the person running it.The bulk of the script focusses on making sure that the correct settings are used. For example, it collects the 36-charater universally unique identifier (UUID) from the system so that you never have to type it in or copy and paste it into place. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

Change an IP address from dynamic to static with a bash script

Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not difficult, but requires a little care and a set of commands that you likely rarely use. This post provides a bash script that will run through the process, collect the needed information and then issue the commands required to make the changes while asking as little as possible from the person running it.The bulk of the script focusses on making sure that the correct settings are used. For example, it collects the 36-charater universally unique identifier (UUID) from the system so that you never have to type it in or copy and paste it into place. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

Change an IP address from dynamic to static with a bash script

Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not difficult, but requires a little care and a set of commands that you likely rarely use. This post provides a bash script that will run through the process, collect the needed information and then issue the commands required to make the changes while asking as little as possible from the person running it.The bulk of the script focusses on making sure that the correct settings are used. For example, it collects the 36-charater universally unique identifier (UUID) from the system so that you never have to type it in or copy and paste it into place. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

Learning BGP Module 2 Lesson 5: BGP Communities – Video

Russ White’s BGP course moves on to the concept of BGP communities, including the three basic types of communities, as well as no_export and no_advertise communities. You can subscribe to the Packet Pushers’ YouTube channel for more videos as they are published. It’s a diverse a mix of content from Ethan and Greg, plus selected […]

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Tech Bytes: Enhancing CI/CD Pipelines With Nokia’s Digital Sandbox (Sponsored)

Today we welcome sponsor Nokia back to the Tech Bytes podcast to get more information about its Digital Sandbox, and how this software, part of Nokia’s Fabric Services System, helps enable a continuous integration/continuous delivery, or CI/CD framework, for network engineers. Our guest is Erwan James, Product Line Manager at Nokia.

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Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos

There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …

Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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