The third presenter of the second day of NFD23 is Juniper Networks. I'm curious to see how Juniper integrated the MIST features across their portfolio. Marvis After the acquisition of Mist, Juniper started to add AI to it's product line, including EX Switches. The path is clear, weel defined and execution follows the …

PathSolutions show how they think network monitoring should work presenting TotalView at NFD23. TL;DR PathSolutions want to solve a well known problem: quite often monitoring software can't help to troubleshoot, they only offer a bunch of values and counters the network operator needs to interpret. TotalView by …

CatchPoint present their Digital Experience Monitoring platform on the first day of NFD23. How it works, very short version CatchPoint provides a monitoring platform for SaaS and custom services. Monitoring nodes can run on CatchPoint infrastructure and on clients, servers and containers provided by the users. When …

NFD23 kicks off with IPFabric. The presentation performed by the CEO Pavel Bykov, CEO and Co-Founder and Daren Fulwell, Product Evangelist was on point to share the mission of IPFabric and some of its most impressive features. IPFabric in short: a tool to create network snapshots that include configurations and state. …

I had an HP Microserver N36L since 2011. Despite its low power it served me well as test machine, then converted to a NAS running Debian. When the main disk failed, a >10yo 250GB Seagate Barracuda, it seemed a good time to give a new life to the old but good server. After evaluating some options, the best use for my …

Cloud computing runs on Cloud networks, when the cheese moves it's time to hit the maze! When AWS lauched the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty I immediately put in my ToDo list. After a year of light reading documentation and blogs about AWS I decided to focus more and do it for real. Preparation My …

In the previous post we installed Terraform and used it to create a VPC in AWS, subnets, instances and all the necessary elements for a lab with Wireguard. In this post we'll install and configure a Wireguard server, a remote client and use it to access an EC2 instance in a private subnet. Wireguard The EC2 instance we …

In my last post I worked with AWS CLI and Cloudformation to create a simple VPC and find a configuration drift. In this post I'll show you how to build a VPC in AWS with all the elements necessary to lab Wireguard. We'll use Terraform to automate the creation of the VPC. Prerequisites To complete all the labs in this …

Today I spent some time working with AWS CLI focusing on Cloudformation and how to deal with configuration drift. Here's some notes about the topic. My setup I run docker in Windows 10 and the docker client inside WSL. That means the docker engine runs on Windows 10 but all the commands are executed in WSL. This setup …

Cisco DevNet is the best thing that could happen to the entire networking industry. DevNet is introducing a change to the whole networking industry, working on multiple fronts at the same time. I think that it will be successful. Keep reading to know why. The excitement for DevNet500 is a sign of the of interest new …

After messing tinkering for some time with Python and Nornir I felt the need of some more structured approach to speed up the learning process. The very same day I received and email from Kirk Byers advertising his Nornir Automation Training. That's destiny! If you're not familiar with Nornir, it is an open source …

I had the opportunity to work with Cisco Advanced Services for a project based on Cisco ACI. It was the first time for me, here's how it went. Background The customer requested official support from the vendor during the design and implementation phases of the new DC fabric so the BoM of project included Advanced …

This year I had again the opportunity to attend Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona. Made it! #CLEUR pic.twitter.com/zzCNNWPfTI — Gian Paolo (@gp_ifconfig) January 27, 2020 Cisco Live is a week that includes customer meetings to discuss incoming project with Cisco, technical sessions, Cisco Champions exclusive events and of …

Just received a mail sent from a plane with some good news: I'm Cisco Champion (again)! I just did a thing. I sent an email to a few hundred people while on an airplane. Yay internet! #CiscoChampion — Lauren M Friedman (@lauren) January 25, 2020 If you don't know what Cisco Champions is take a look to the FAQ and start …

Last year I bought an Huawei Matebook D to use at home for light workload like surfing the web (is this term still in use?) and take notes for my blog. The Matebook replaced my tablet, I preferred an actual laptop over a tablet with a keyboard. After a year of use I finally decided to install Linux on the laptop. Here …