Day two of NFD16 started with Apstra and their intent-based networking system.

Intent concept is not as broad as SDN but still vendors have different views of this meaning.

According to Apstra an intent is "the definition of the expected outcome". The sum of the intents of a network is the source of truth. …

Second part of Tech Field Day NFD16 day 1 continues with Arista.

Getting ready for @AristaNetworks #NFD16 pic.twitter.com/SCWXVGsR2l

— Gian Paolo (@gp_ifconfig) September 13, 2017

Arista's presentation included 400G (hist: it's fast!), EOS programmability, Network Automation and Telemetry, Routing Architecture …

First day at Tech Field Day NFD16, I'm quite excited to be here among fellow network engineers to share our views on products and technologies.

I'm planning to post my takeaways for each vendor with variable lengths based on my knowledge and interest of the specific product.

Today's first presenter is Veriflow. Let's …

Welcome back to AirPiConsole blog post, this is part two.

If you read part one and followed the configuration steps you should now have a fully working Raspberry Pi Zero W connected to your WiFi network.

You should also be able to connect via Bluetooth to get a console connection without knowing the IP address of the …

As a network engineer I spend a lot of time with my laptop connected via serial cable to various devices.

Physical serial connection is needed for initial device setup and sometimes per customer's security policy I can't access the network, so I can only use out-of-band management. I also configure many devices at …

I'm happy to announce I'll join a great team of professionals for 3 days of pure networking awesomeness in Silicon Valley:

Great news: I'm a #NFD16 delegate! https://t.co/WuziopJtKc Can't wait to join such a great team of professionals!

— Gian Paolo (@gp_ifconfig) August 11, 2017

NFD16 is part of Tech …

Summertime usually means a busy period for Network Engineers, customers are on holidays and we have the opportunity to performs all the changes that impact network connectivity.

For me this usually means core switch replacement.

Today I was moving a configuration from an HP8200 to a Cisco 4500, taking care of all the …

Ansible has been around for I while but I didn't had a chance to play with it so far.

Now the time has come: I manage enough IOS devices with homogeneous configurations in multiple sites without Cisco Prime. Any change is a pain, it's time to automate all the things!

My environment

I run Ansible inside Bash on Windows, …

This week I attended and event organized by Cisco TAC in Krakow.

I've been in may Cisco events (Live, PVT, Pint etc.) but It was the first time for me at a TAC workshop and I was curious about it.

The Agenda

Agenda was clear: tree days with TAC engineers presenting best practices for installation and configuration with …

Today I passed exam CWDP-302 and got CWDP.

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It's time for CLEUR again, for the second year in Berlin, that's 5 years in a row and I still get excited when the date arrives.

#CLEUR #CCIE #netvet #ciscochampion #merakimaster pic.twitter.com/IyF883JeYk

— Gian Paolo (@gp_ifconfig) February 21, 2017