Configuration backups and an opportunity for automation and management
Configuration management is a critical part of successfully and efficiently run any network. From…
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Anyone that looks at this site with any regularity may have noticed that I…
No privacy may be the new privacy.
Taking politics and putting them aside, what the new administration has been attempting to…
Creating an internal span port inside proxmox OVS
In the last few years I have moved all of my virtualization to proxmox…
Why I care about Segment Routing
Edit: Going against my normal “just get the content out there” methodology, I’ve been…
BGP RPKI – why aren't we using it more?
I was recently at a meeting where BGP RPKI was the topic de jour. While this…
NIX4NetEng #6 DNS, ad-blocking, and quality of experience
The sixth [and arguably very overdue] installment of my NIX4NetEng series, this began as…
Buzzwords, technology, terminology, and the interconnection of modern networking
I’m way overdue for a soapbox session — I found this one in my…
Building Interdomain SDN part 3
A few years ago I wrote some text on interdomain SDN. Years later, work is…
Solarwinds Orion from a UNIX user perspective
Back in February of this year (2015) I was introduced to Solarwinds when they…