Podcasts Podcasts on Security and Networking that I have hosted or participated in. The series hosted by myself for ForwardingPlane.net are “Default Deny” and “Non-Blocking”, which focus on data networking and security, respectively. [soundcloud url=“https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/242625484" params=“auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=“100%” height=“150” iframe=“true” /] Other Podcasts Software Gone Wild OpenSource Network Management Tools on Software Gone wild Running OpenDayLight in production  Network Field Day 9 Wrap Up Packet Pushers Golf cart in my fiber tunnel Open Source Perfsonar for finding network issues

[Jshaffer]( “jshaffer@hummingbirdnetworks.com”) - Jan 4, 2016 Great post! I definitely feel overwhelmed and thanks for the mindnote recommend definitely going to check that out! Nick Buraglio - Feb 6, 2016 Hey, thanks for reading! There is so much stuff out there no one can keep up. Know a lot about a little and a little about a lot, but most importantly, enjoy what you do. A person that enjoys their job will never work a day in their lives.

I’m way overdue for a soapbox session – I found this one in my drafts and thought it was something I needed to put out there. It’s already dated in terminology but that actually helps make the point - it’s hard to keep up.  Lets throw this out there: social media can be exhausting. Do not misunderstand me, it’s a great tool for communication, obtaining and disseminating information as well as standard goofing around.

A few years ago I wrote some text on interdomain SDN. Years later, work is being done, smart people are thinking about it and building ways to make it a reality. Not being one to give up on an idea, I gave this presentation in may at ChiNOG on what my take on what that architecture should be. I (we) propose that the use of existing protocols such as BGP FlowSpec will make this realistically deployable and maintainable given some simple, pluggable middleware.

Solarwinds Orion from a UNIX user perspective - Tech Field Day - Jul 2, 2015 […] Solarwinds Orion from a UNIX user perspective […]

Back in February of this year (2015) I was introduced to Solarwinds when they presented to us at Networking Field day 9. Until then I knew of SolarWinds products but only at a cursory level; I had never really seen or used their stuff since it was mostly focused on environments that were either smaller or outside of the networking world that I generally operate in. However, I am a[n insufferable] network monitoring “aficionado” so when the opportunity to play around with it arose, I happily took it.

I recently had a need to test OpenFlow on the brocade ICX 7450 for a fairly good sized, high visibility project. The basic goal is pretty simple, Layer2 path provisioning. Straightforward and fairly well supported in OpenFlow, even from the early days. To do this, the idea was to use a turnkey platform, that way there is one throat to choke if there are issues. I landed on the Brocade Vyatta controller (which is essentially ODL), and the ICX.

There are a vast number of entities that offer the seemingly ubiquitous “cloud”. “SaaS”, “IaaS”, “BLAHaaS”, buzzword compliance is truly a sought after thing by marketing folks. With the proliferation of virtualization, containers and other “time slicing” of hardware by software the chatter can quickly become noise. As technical professionals and the warm bodies with the responsibility for actually making things work and keeping them running, the onus is on us to be able to decipher the useful from the fluff.

Brocade does a double down on SDN - Tech Field Day - Mar 6, 2015 […] Brocade does a double down on SDN […]