Network Break 332: Juniper Teases SASE Offering; IBM Gets Small With 2nm Chip
Today's Network Break covers IBM's new 2nm chip process, Juniper's first step toward a SASE offering, whether secondary markets for network gear might be an option for companies dealing with supply chain shortages, and more tech news.
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The Week in Internet News: Many U.S. Residents Support Community Broadband
From the community: A new poll from Morning Consult finds that more than half of U.S. residents trust local governments to provide broadband services, and just 14 percent believe local governments should be prohibited from providing broadband. Currently, 18 states limit or outright prohibit local governments from providing their own broadband. In those states, “these […]
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Ansible Network Resource Purge parameter
Red Hat Ansible Network Automation continues to be a popular domain for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. We have continually developed additional resource modules to make automating network appliances easier, and more approachable, for novices and experts alike. These resource modules provide a consistent experience across multiple network vendors. There are seven main state parameters for resource modules: merged, replaced, overridden, deleted, gathered, rendered and parsed. The Ansible network team is adding one more parameter, purged, to this tool chest for resource modules. This blog will cover the purged parameter and show use-cases through a practical example.
For this example, we will be using two BGP resource modules to configure a Cisco network device. We will be using the bgp_global module, which was covered in Rohit’s blog post, and the bgp_address_family module. The BGP configuration is split between these two separate modules to simplify configuration and data models associated with them.
Let’s start with a data model:
bgp_global:
as_number: '65000'
bgp:
log_neighbor_changes: true
router_id:
address: 192.168.1.1
neighbor:
- activate: true
address: 10.200.200.2
remote_as: 65001
bgp_address_family:
address_family:
- afi: ipv4
neighbor:
- activate: true
address: 10.200.200.2
network:
- address: 10.25. Continue readingWhy AWS Could Own the Future of Quantum Computing
Without any of its own hardware and most of its software heavy-lifting dedicated to front-end development, security, and broader AWS systems integration, the cloud giant could own the quantum computing user base.
Why AWS Could Own the Future of Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Response: There’s No Recipe for Success
Minh Ha left a lengthy comment to my There’s No Recipe for Success blog post, adding an interesting perspective of someone who had to work really hard to overcome coming from a third-world country.
Ivan, I happened to read “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” recently so I can attest that it does provide some valuable advices on how to do things well. Some of the overarching themes are stay focused and cut off unnecessary noise/drain the shallow. The author also suggests removing your social media account if you can’t see how it add values to your work/business, as social media can create attention disorder, seen in many young kids these days.
Response: There’s No Recipe for Success
Minh Ha left a lengthy comment to my There’s No Recipe for Success blog post, adding an interesting perspective of someone who had to work really hard to overcome coming from a third-world country.
Ivan, I happened to read “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” recently so I can attest that it does provide some valuable advices on how to do things well. Some of the overarching themes are stay focused and cut off unnecessary noise/drain the shallow. The author also suggests removing your social media account if you can’t see how it add values to your work/business, as social media can create attention disorder, seen in many young kids these days.
How to Survive a Toxic Workplace
If you wake up every morning stressed about going to work, chances are that you are working in a toxic environment. There are many signs of a toxic workplace including having rude coworkers, but things that you may be experiencing include depression, loss of focus, reduction in confidence, and even constant headaches.
The psychological explanation behind feeling depressed due to a toxic workplace is related to the fight or flight response of the body. When you put yourself under constantly stressful conditions, your body produces cortisol, testosterone, and norepinephrine in unhealthy quantities. As a result, you may find yourself wanting to burst into tears by 2pm at work.
While working in a toxic environment can be difficult, it is certainly not impossible. Until you find a suitable alternative for yourself, there are many ways to survive a toxic workplace – regardless of how bad the situation may be.
1. Find the Good in the Bad
The biggest reason why your workplace is toxic is probably due to the coworkers. You may find yourself surrounded by selfish, judgmental, and manipulative individuals that you do not resonate with. But while a majority of your coworkers may be toxic, there Continue reading
Transport vs Network
According to the OSI Reference Model for network protocols it should not matter in the slightest what value you put in the IP protocol field in IP packet headers. It’s really none of the network's business! but in today’s public Internet it appears to matter a lot that the transport protocol header is visible to the network. Why?Worth Reading: When Stretching Layer Two, Separate Your Fate
Ethan Banks wrote the best one-line description of the crazy stuff we have to deal with in his When Stretching Layer Two, Separate Your Fate blog post:
No application should be tightly coupled to an IP address. This common issue should really be solved by application architects rebuilding the app properly instead of continuing like it’s 1999 while screaming YOLO.
Not that his (or my) take on indisputable facts would change anything… At least we can still enjoy a good rant ;)
Worth Reading: When Stretching Layer Two, Separate Your Fate
Ethan Banks wrote the best one-line description of the crazy stuff we have to deal with in his When Stretching Layer Two, Separate Your Fate blog post:
No application should be tightly coupled to an IP address. This common issue should really be solved by application architects rebuilding the app properly instead of continuing like it’s 1999 while screaming YOLO.
Not that his (or my) take on indisputable facts would change anything… At least we can still enjoy a good rant ;)
Worth Reading: My Secret Startup Past
If you ever get a feeling the grass is greener on the other (startup) side, read My Secret Startup Past by Amy Hoy, and if you think about starting your business, read all the other stuff she wrote. I wish I knew of her when I was starting ipSpace.net a decade ago.
Worth Reading: My Secret Startup Past
If you ever get a feeling the grass is greener on the other (startup) side, read My Secret Startup Past by Amy Hoy, and if you think about starting your business, read all the other stuff she wrote. I wish I knew of her when I was starting ipSpace.net a decade ago.