Technology Short Take #30 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers - Mar 2, 2013 […] Buraglio has a good post on the potential impact of Arista’s new DANZ functionality on tap aggregation solutions in the security market. It will be interesting to see how this shapes […] [Darrin Thomason]( “Darrin@thethomasons.org”) - Feb 6, 2013 Great post…this is just the beginning of what can be done with a highly extensible platform…I am looking forward to other creative deployments that people come up with!

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the model Arista Networks is using to make gear and provide innovative services and products. In my opinion, they’re changing the landscape of campus and data center networking gear. I’m always a fan of the little guy trying to change the world and this falls under that category. For those that don’t know, Arista Networks is a “hardware” networking company that is using merchant silicon wrapped in their custom linux based operating system (which is very much like IOS).

[Ian]( “ian.collett@tekelec.com”) - Feb 4, 2013 Tks - nice short article that just got me going. Two thinks I found; 1) When you “git” floodlight is now builds a directory called floodlight that you have to drop down into to run ant. 2) The current version of floodlight needs 64 bit Java to run. Not sure if you can hack it to run with 32 bit, I just reloaded a 64 bit version.

A bit of back history: I came from BSD land. I was a FreeBSD user from way back in the 1990s. BSD land is a land of secure boxes and very high uptimes. It’s also a land of arguably clunky package support, a lot of compiling by hand and these days, not nearly as encompassing package and network tuning support. I decided to move to Linux”) a while ago, reluctantly, and chose Debian as my flavor of choice.

Nick Buraglio - Feb 4, 2013 11.2R7.4. Soon to be upgraded to 11.4.x [Kelly mcdowell]( “ocdune@gmail.com”) - Feb 2, 2013 What version of Junos?

Recently we encountered a very strange behavior on an SRX 5800 cluster. The cluster, which is in active/active mode, started dropping OSPF adjacencies to it’s neighboring routing equipment, in this case, Juniper MX480 and Brocade/Foundry MLX8. Strange behavior indeed, since for us, these had been rock solid for around 2 years and we’d never seen this odd behavior before. Honestly, we started looking at the routers first since this was something the SRX has never done before.

Pc and networking timeline. Commodity hardware. Custom hardware. Asics. White box.

[Matt Kazmar]( “mkazmar@uic.edu”) - Feb 3, 2013 Why use VirtualBox as opposed to KVM? KVM is included with CentOS and fits your quite well into your Windows-less world… Nick Buraglio - Feb 3, 2013 Just simple experience. I know the vbox CLI pretty well already. Additionally, if I build a VM in VirtualBox on another platform I can easily import and export it. KVM is on my [very] short list to learn, I think it is actually better based on some talkes I’ve had, I just don’t know it yet.