Why you don't need a firewall [how to secure an open perimeter network]
I admit that the title was meant to be inflammatory. However, there are use…
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Aging hardware, IPv6 and the growing route table
I’ve blathered on about BGP forever. Say what you will about the venerable protocol,…
NIX4NetEng #2 IPv4/6 address investigation tools – whois + dig
I don’t care what your vendor alignment of choice is, Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, Alcatel….it…
Blending the Network; Pluribus ServerSwitch
I firmly believe that blending disciplines is the way of the future in IT.…
BGP tools; troubleshooting and monitoring external routing in a nutshell
Time to rewind from the new and shiny and get back to roots of…
Tail-F NCS: upsetting network management…in a good way.
“Hopefully there are some things here that will make you really upset in a…
Inline-jflow on MX series Juniper
One of the things that I’ve always lamented about using non-Cisco hardware is the…
Fixing the dreaded "error: could not open configuration database (juniper.data+)" problem.
Working on some MX series routers recently I encountered a problem I’d never seen…
Debugging Brocade MLX/XMR ip_rx CPU issues
I recently had the need to debug a run away ip_rx process on an…
MPLS Bootstrap
I’ve been doing a lot of MPLS in the last 45 or so days…