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When You Find Yourself on Mount Stupid

The early October 2021 Facebook outage generated a predictable phenomenon – couch epidemiologists became experts in little-known Bridging the Gap Protocol (BGP), including its Introvert and Extrovert variants. Unfortunately, I also witnessed several unexpected trips to Mount Stupid by people who should have known better.

To set the record straight: everyone’s been there, and the more vocal you tend to be on social media (including mailing lists), the more probable it is that you’ll take a wrong turn and end there. What matters is how gracefully you descend and what you’ve learned on the way back.

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When You Find Yourself on Mount Stupid

The early October 2021 Facebook outage generated a predictable phenomenon – couch epidemiologists became experts in little-known Bridging the Gap Protocol (BGP), including its Introvert and Extrovert variants. Unfortunately, I also witnessed several unexpected trips to Mount Stupid by people who should have known better.

To set the record straight: everyone’s been there, and the more vocal you tend to be on social media (including mailing lists), the more probable it is that you’ll take a wrong turn and end there. What matters is how gracefully you descend and what you’ve learned on the way back.

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Content vs Carriage – Who Pays?

The Internet may be many things, but its definitely not free. One way or another the users of the Internet pay for the Internet. But this does not stop various players in the space jostling for relative advantage, claiming others should be paying more while they pay less. This tension is often reflected between carriage providers and content service providers when they try and figure out who should pay whom and how much.

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Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script.First, the awk command that we’ll be using starts by running through each letter in the string. In a more common command, you might see awk doing something like this:$ echo one:two:three | awk ‘BEGIN {FS =":"} ; { print $2 }’ two [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]   The FS portion of that command specifies the field separator—the character that is used to separate the fields in the string so that they can be processed separately.To read this article in full, please click here

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Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script.First, the awk command that we’ll be using starts by running through each letter in the string. In a more common command, you might see awk doing something like this:$ echo one:two:three | awk ‘BEGIN {FS =":"} ; { print $2 }’ two [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]   The FS portion of that command specifies the field separator—the character that is used to separate the fields in the string so that they can be processed separately.To read this article in full, please click here

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BGP RTBH – Remotely Triggered Blackholing

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Addressing Mounting Ransomware Threats and Attacks with SASE

Ransomware's main weapon is lateral movement and infiltration within networks to capture valuable information. SASE can help prevent this.

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Marvell Throws Hat Into Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect Ring

Marvell Technology is the latest chipmaker to join the emerging Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCI-Express) consortium, which is working toward an open interconnect standard for chiplet architectures. …

Marvell Throws Hat Into Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect Ring was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

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Qualcomm finalizes Cellwize deal, in pursuit of 5G RAN improvements

Wireless equipment manufacturer Qualcomm Monday announced that it had finalized a deal to acquire Israel-based Cellwize, a maker of radio access network (RAN) management technology that uses AI-based automation to streamline the deployment of 5G infrastructure.In particular, the company's offerings aim to simplify the process of designing and deploying 5G networks for both mobile operators and enterprises looking to set up private 5G networks of their own, by automating the deployment of access points, simplifying site deployments, and more.To read this article in full, please click here

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On Building a Personal Brand

How do you balance loyalty to yourself and loyalty to the company you work for?

This might seem like an odd question, but it’s an important component of work/life balance many of us just don’t think about any longer because, as Pete Davis says in Dedicated, we live in a world of infinite browsing. We’re afraid of sticking to one thing because it might reduce our future options. If we dedicate ourselves to something bigger than ourselves, then we might lose control of our direction. In particular, we should not dedicate ourselves to any single company, especially for too long. As a recent (excellent!) blog post over at the ACM says:

Loyalty is generally a good trait, but extreme loyalty to the organization or mission may cause you to stay in the same job for too long.

The idea that we should control our own destiny, never getting lost in anything larger than ourselves, is ubitiquos like water is to a fish. We don’t question it. We don’t argue. It is just true. We assume there are three people who are going to look after “me:” me, myself, and I.

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Free Online Games You Can Play With Your Friends

Whether you’re looking for a way to stay connected with friends during quarantine or you’re just looking for a fun way to pass the time, playing online games is a great option. But with so many games out there, it can be tough to choose which one to play. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the best online games to play with friends. From classic games like Monopoly and Scrabble to newer favorites like Among Us and Jackbox Party Pack, there’s something for everyone on this list.

Free Online Games to Play With Friends

Monopoly

One of the most classic board games out there, Monopoly is a great option for online play. You can find a Monopoly app for both iPhones and Android devices, or you can play the game on your browser.

Words With Friends

Another classic board game, Words with Friends is a great way to stay in touch with friends and family. You can play the game on your browser or download the app for both iPhones and Android devices.

Scrabble

Like Words with Friends, Scrabble is a great option for those looking for a classic board game experience. You can play Scrabble on your Continue reading

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Network Break 386: Extreme Debuts SD-WAN, Digital Twins; Cisco Launches SASE Service

This week's Network Break kicks off with listener FU and then dives into new SD-WAN and AIOps offerings from Extreme Networks. Cisco announces a SASE service and hints at a broader cloud security strategy. Arista adds to its Layer 1 switch portfolio while Ericsson and BT team up on private 5G in the United Kingdom.

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BGP-LS BGP Link State – What is it? Why BGP LS is used?

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Pure Storage upgrades AI platform built on Nvidia DGX systems

Pure Storage announced updates to its AIRI//S line of AI-ready infrastructure, which it co-developed with Nvidia.The two vendors launched AIRI in 2018, claiming it was the first AI-oriented reference architecture that simplified the process of building an AI infrastructure by connecting compute with storage. AIRI is essentially a combination of Pure’s scale-out FlashBlade//S and Nvidia’s DGX ultra-dense GPU box. Pure provided the storage, and Nvidia provided the compute.This latest move, unveiled at the Pure//Accelerate techfest22 conference in Los Angeles, is quite an advancement, however.The new release of AIRI//S is powered by Nvidia DGX A100 systems, featuring end-to-end networking provided by Nvidia’s Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum networking. A DGX A100 system comes with eight Ampere-generation A100 GPUs and up to ten ConnectX-6 network adapters from Mellanox.To read this article in full, please click here

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Pure Storage upgrades AI platform built on Nvidia DGX systems

Pure Storage announced updates to its AIRI//S line of AI-ready infrastructure, which it co-developed with Nvidia.The two vendors launched AIRI in 2018, claiming it was the first AI-oriented reference architecture that simplified the process of building an AI infrastructure by connecting compute with storage. AIRI is essentially a combination of Pure’s scale-out FlashBlade//S and Nvidia’s DGX ultra-dense GPU box. Pure provided the storage, and Nvidia provided the compute.This latest move, unveiled at the Pure//Accelerate techfest22 conference in Los Angeles, is quite an advancement, however.The new release of AIRI//S is powered by Nvidia DGX A100 systems, featuring end-to-end networking provided by Nvidia’s Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum networking. A DGX A100 system comes with eight Ampere-generation A100 GPUs and up to ten ConnectX-6 network adapters from Mellanox.To read this article in full, please click here

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CCIE Service Provider v5.0 What, Why, When?

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Tech Bytes: The Evolution Of Zero Trust Network Access (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk about Zero Trust Network Access and how it’s evolving to provide more comprehensive and consistent security.

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Tech Bytes: The Evolution Of Zero Trust Network Access (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk about Zero Trust Network Access and how it’s evolving to provide more comprehensive and consistent security.

The post Tech Bytes: The Evolution Of Zero Trust Network Access (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure – Network Access – blog #1

Introduction

In this blog series we will discuss the deployment of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure, specifically focusing on the deployment access types and what that means for accessing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure after deployment completion.

 

Deployment Access Types

First let’s start by discussing the different deployment access types.

During deployment, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure will present an option called “Access” that determines how you will access the user interfaces.

 

Access Selection at Deploy Time

Deployment Type

Details

Public

Public deployments allow ingress to the user interfaces over the public internet. Upon deployment, a domain name is issued to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure instance, and users will be able to navigate to the domain to login. This is the easiest approach to deploy because there is no configuration required to access Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure. Public Access Architecture Diagram below

 

Public Access Architecture Diagram

Deployment Type	Details
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Orhan Ergun CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Course Review 1