The contrasted differences of networking
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The contrasted differences of networking
Today more than ever, networking has fundamental similarities. The days of routing IPX/SPX, AppleTalk,…
Strategy Series: Don’t sweat the details – or take a risk and embrace change
I was originally going to be inflammatory and title this “Details don’t matter”, but…
The BGP conundrum
BGP. It’s that magical protocol that runs the internet. For for as much as…
Soap Box: Mikrotik "IPv6 Apocalypse", or maybe not.
Neighbor table and route-cache have been problems in IPv6 implementations since the beginning. No…
Faucet: Enterprise OpenFlow in production
Remember OpenFlow? It was the media and marketing darling for the better…
DDoS mitigation podcast, black hole routing
As an often-security-engineer and an individual that has been working on large networks for…
The rush to automation and the IT pendulum
Recently, the venerable Ivan Pepelnjak published a very insightful article about automation becoming such a…
Speculation on the obvious: stuff changes, why freak out?
I have my +100 hat of irreverence on today so it’s time for a…
Configuration backups and an opportunity for automation and management
Configuration management is a critical part of successfully and efficiently run any network. From…
No privacy may be the new privacy.
Taking politics and putting them aside, what the new administration has been attempting to…