In this iteration of Gestalt Networking News:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable talks to networking professionals on the challenges of career management
– Rich Stroffolino looks at VMware NSX
– Phil Gervasi breaks down intent-based networks
Plus, a walkthrough on setting up a CCIE lab!
Dealing with Out of Band communications and WAN failure
Josh Kittle of Collab.Ninja writes: A few weeks ago while attending Cisco Live in San Diego, I was invited by the Tech Field Day group to participate in a couple of sessions, and I wanted to share my responses to one in particular today, but first a little bit of background on myself. These days […]
Opengear pmshell ESCAPE sequences
Michael McNamara writes on his blog: If your in pmshell you’ll need to use the following escape sequences to get back to the “Connect to port >” prompt if for example you want to connect to different serial port. If you weren’t confused enough, if you are connecting via SSH you’ll need to use an […]
Geek Tools — OpenGear ACM5004 Console Servers
Jonathan Davis of It Must Be The Network writes: In short, OpenGear did a awesome job presenting a new product, the IM7200. They asked us about use cases, answered all of our questions, and impressed quite a few of us in the room. After the event, I ended up speaking with their team about a […]
Openly Passionate
Bob McCouch of Herding Packets writes about Opengear: Traditionally, most of Opengear’s products have been smaller form factors with 2, 4, or 8 serial ports. One reason the networking community loves Opengear, though, is the open nature of their platform. Opengear boxes run the uClinux distribution, and root access is available. This allows a variety […]
One Console to Rule Them All
Blake Krone from Digital Lifestyle writes: As long as there has been networking equipment we have needed access into devices to configure and manage. Serial connectivity is the defacto setup method for new equipment so it’s only naturally that console servers have come to market. For example I use a Cisco 2811 at home in […]