BGP is so important to our Internet lives. But is it the best solution? Or can it be improved. Nick Buraglio discusses some of the issues and potential fixes with BGP.
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Brocade Vyatta Install and OpenFlow 1.3 on ICX 7450
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane comments: 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 […]
Brocade does a double down on SDN
The Forwarding Plane comments: This is where it gets interesting for me as someone that had to manage large Foundry/Brocade networks for a number of years and who sports the scars and experiences to prove it. Knowing that the majority of the issues with their platform were software related things like lack of full featured […]
OpenDNS acquires BGPMon and the future of route monitoring
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane comments: For those that run BGP networks, BGPmon is often a tool they turn to for some really unique and hard to find information. Remember back in February 2008 when Pakistan Telecom “blocked” Youtube? That one was a really, really public example of something that BGPMon caught. BGPmon has been around for […]
NEC brings a strong offering to the SDN table
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane writes: When NEC began talking about SDN at Network Field Day 9, I was not sure what to expect. I knew they had been heavily involved with openflow since the early days, and many years ago I was able to get my hands on their early OpenFlow controller and was immediately frustrated […]
Big Switch Labs for SDN Learning: A Sneak Peek!
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane writes: At the time of this writing, the lab consists of 3 modules: Building cloud fabric, monitoring fabric and dynamic provisioning of monitoring fabric. Since there is quite a lot going on with this cloud based SDN classroom, for the scope of this post I’ll concentrate on the first, […]
Why you don’t need a firewall [how to secure an open perimeter network]
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane comments: I admit that the title was meant to be inflammatory. However, there are use cases that aren’t terribly uncommon where an in-line security appliance is just not the correct tool for the job. Someone once told me “a firewall protects a network like a fuse protects an electrical […]
Aging hardware, IPv6 and the growing route table
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane comments: I’ve blathered on about BGP forever. Say what you will about the venerable protocol, it runs the interwebs, is reliable, extendable and well documented. I’ve also espoused ad nauseam about IPv6, so none of this [admitted] rant should really be a surprise coming from me. As of 8/12/2014, […]
Tail-F NCS can change the way existing and future networks are managed
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane writes: “Hopefully there are some things here that will make you really upset in a very good way” is how Carl Moberg of Swedish based company tail-f opened up to the crowd at Networking Field Day 7 on Feb 19, 2014. Tail-f is a sleeper, I had actually never […]
Adesso MKB-125 keyboard review
Nick Buraglio of Nick Buraglio (dot) com comments: Are you old enough to remember the amazing IBM model M keyboards? I am. And I loved mine. I had several of them as did my roommate from that time. I remember in the mid 1990s working for a consulting firm in central IL, and during that […]