A customer called because they expect the Internet access in the DC to reach 10 Gigabits, but a speedtest only show 1 Gigabit throughput.
Once again, it’s a network issue. Or not?
A customer called because they expect the Internet access in the DC to reach 10 Gigabits, but a speedtest only show 1 Gigabit throughput.
Once again, it’s a network issue. Or not?
In my role as a network architect, I often find myself validating a design based on documentation provided by the vendor. Whenever possible, I prefer to verify at least the core functionality in the lab.
Platforms such as Cisco Meraki on the one hand simplify configurations by introducing automation and abstraction mechanisms that have a great impact on large installations; on the other hand, abstractions and simplifications require careful analysis of requirements and deployment methods.
In this blog I present a scenario that I had the opportunity to test recently.
When chatting with both colleagues and customers about BGP path manipulations, I’ve picked up on something interesting – the concept of admin distance can often lead to some head-scratching moments.
So, in this blog post, I’m going to take you through a few links and hands-on labs. Our goal? To unravel the mysteries surrounding admin distance and its pivotal role in the BGP best path selection process. Let’s dive in!
It has been more than 20 years since my last Microsoft certification exam. Windows NT4 was very common, Windows 2000 was cutting edge, and my first job was to migrate some SMEs in my region from the former to the latter.
My goal at the time was to get the famous MCSE , but I never had the chance to finish the certificaton track, stopping after a couple of exams.
Then I fell in love with networking.
We don’t install all our servers in the same DC. But what about clouds? Would you trust one Cloud Server Provider for all your applications?
This is the premise of Multicloud.
For $reasons it happened a few times that I needed to renumber a VLAN in a campus or DC network.
This post is about the lack of best practices, workarounds, L2 extensions, tunnels and loops.
Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for a ride down the rabbit hole.
In the last post I used a webhook to notify a listener to run a remediation script.
In this post I’ll document how to configure the listener.
IP Fabric network discovery can collect the network state. Release 3.7.0 introduced webhooks.
Let’s see how webhooks can be used for automated remediation.
This blog has been selected as a finalist in the Most Educational category of the 2020 IT Blog Awards , hosted by Cisco.
My blog has been selected again as a finalist in the Most Inspirational category of the 2019 IT Blog Awards , hosted by Cisco.
A few weeks ago Krypt.co appeared in my Twitter timeline so I decided to try it. Here’s the result.
During Cisco Live this year I had a chance to stop by IP Fabric booth and exchange a quick chat about their product and the problem they’re trying to solve.
On May 10th I had a chance to attend again ITNOG in Bologna.
AKIPS network monitoring.