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I firmly believe that blending disciplines is the way of the future in IT. I’ve rambled about it here at other venues and I’m vocal (some would probably say brash) about it on the twitters. Be it Networking and System, Systems and Security, Programming and Networking, most of us that have been around any length of time already do it but now it’s happening out in the open and “DevOps”, a form of the hybrid IT worker, has seemingly become the BOTD (Buzzword of the day).

[svētā govs!]( “saulstari@gmail.com”) - Mar 3, 2014 great, thank you Nick Buraglio - Apr 6, 2014 Another great site that should probably be on the “notable mentions” is the CIDR report. CIDR report provides a nice, easy to read and up to date breakdown of the global routing table for both IPv4 and IPv6. Great to utilize for trending and planning if you’re not monitoring your own tables (which you should be) and as an impartial data source for the global table.

Time to rewind from the new and shiny and get back to roots of networking. BGP is one of those odd protocols that is foundational to the functioning of the internet but yet somewhat hard to get experience with. Say what you will about this venerable protocol, it’s been here a while and it is not going anywhere any time soon. I’ve been doing BGP since around late 1999, and I completely fell into it by accident, having only the Cisco Internet Routing Architectures book (which I literally read cover to cover) and the Ulysses Black Routing Protocols Book and whatever I could find on a random search engine to guide me, and that was only after having to learn on the CLI for the first 6-7 months.

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I recently had the displeasure of dealing with a series of failed disks in my newly created ZFS based NAS. I had cobbled together roughly 12TB of disk space and jammed them into an old PC, stretching the limits of the platform when I decided to go with ZFS. I broke all of the rules, underpowered, single core PC, only a handful of GIG of non-ECC RAM, etc. I’m sure storage guys are having a coronary after reading that, but it works for me and has minimal issues since I just relatively redundant need bulk storage and it doesn’t need to be fast (the ethernet connection is only 100M).