Argus Netflow IPv6
Musings
I have been remiss in writing in the last year, the reasons are unimportant, but regardless, I’ve been paying very close attention. It’s 2017 and it is SOAPBOX time again! SDN has been a “thing” since ~2008, with the publication and popularization of the OpenFlow protocol. It’s 2017. How much has this industry changing technology is running outside of the hyper scale data centers? We’ve seen companies rise and companies disappear. The promise of SDN is…
The networking world has been abuzz with talk of VMWares NSX announcement, Cisco’s CTO response to that, and heavy speculation of what that means. If you’re curious about NSX, Ivan Pepelnjak over at ioshints has a great write up explaining what it is and isn’t. I enjoyed the read quite a bit. Speculation generally makes me jittery, so I have spent some time thinking about this, reading and trying to understand. I’ve come to the conclusion that I am by no means an…
FlowSpec.
OpenFlow is a game changer, no question about it. With all of the buzz about it, I really don’t think we’re seeing past its real value, most are focusing on the data center and potentially not seeing the forest for the trees. I don’t really care about the gooey center of the data center. I’ve built, maintained, consulted on or in some way supported so many HPC data centers in the last 12 years that I find them dull at this point*. *With the exception of the Blue…
In a slight deviation from a lot of deep networking, I thought it would be a