I was at FutureNet Expo in Boston last week where I saw a very jarring and interesting presentation made by John Day, a professor at Boston University. If you’d like to take a look at the presentation, you can find it here. John has been involved with some fairly significant projects that were responsible for the Internet we have today. He is also founding member of the Pouzin Society, an organization named for Louis Pouzin, the father of the datagram and designer of the first packet communications network. John and the Pouzin Society’s assertion is that it has been known for some time the Internet as it exists today is not properly built to scale and the backup plan is not going to be much better. Let’s examine why he and a few other folks in the know think this is true. Read more…
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I found this great tool recently I felt I should share called NetworkAuthority Inventory (was called ZipTie). It’s more than your run of the mill config archiver like the ever popular RANCID. Read more…
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I just read Request For Comments (RFC) 5540 today. 40 years ago this month on April 7th, 1969, RFC 1 regarding “Host Software” authored by Steve Crocker at UCLA was published. Read more…
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I’ve been wanting a Netbook for a while now but really couldn’t justify getting one. That is until I read you can install Apple’s OS X on them. Read more…
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I’ve been going to a great conference for the last 3 years that I plan on attending this year and I think all readers should consider checking out. FutureNet is going to be held in Boston May 4-7 and is a fantastic show. If you work for a service provider or even for an enterprise and you need to stay abreast of the newest in new of services delivery, this show is one of the better ones around. From my past experience, there has been some awesome sessions and panel discussions on subjects like the state of MPLS and carrier ethernet network interconnection, what high end enterprise clients are demanding for services and how to make your network scale to support future growth. If you have plans on attending this show in Boston, DM me on Twitter. I’d love to meet up!
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So is anyone out there nervous about what networks are going to do on April 1st this year? Is Conficker going to rip apart the Internet? If you’re not aware of what Conficker is, here’s some detailed analysis from SRI about a worm that people think is going to unleash a nasty attack come April 1st. I think it’s nerve racking for the average network admin. We’ve already had to live through streaming events like the presidential inauguration of Barak Obama which caused a 3x increase over the average in transit consumption for my network that day. What is everyone out there doing to prepare for the next rumored incoming threat? Let’s hope it’s a non-starter like a lot of these scares have been in the past.
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I had a choice to make recently in the decision of which open standards based IGP (i.e. NOT EIGRP) to chose between, OSPF or Integrated IS-IS. Read more…
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So you’d have to be living under a rock (or else have a real life) not to see the coverage today on the Unified Computing System (UCS). I’m not going to go over specifications nor any of the technical aspects of what it does or does not do, I just want to ask… What the hell, Cisco? Why do we need another server platform? I have some ideas on what this is all about. Read more…
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Does Arbor Networks hold key data that could help save us from bad stuff on the Internet? Are they holding out on us? Let’s explore. Read more…
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The TCP/IP stack in Microsoft Vista was completely rewritten with the new OS. With that rebuild came some more support for use with evolving technologies like IPv6 and additional features to future proof it as much as possible. Well it appears that they have some more work to do to. Take a look at this informative piece from a Dr Plokta who has a strange load balancing issue with Vista clients due to Microsoft’s interpretation of RFC3484 aka Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Check out his interesting blog post at Imminent Death of the Net Predicted.
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