Commodity infrastructure, pile ‘em high!
White box switching
- Cumulus Networks- How to go from a pile of servers and switches to… YouTube video
- Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system
- Cumulus Hardware compatibility list
- Other Linux based network operating systems are available…..
Intel hardware ticking time bomb
- Intel Atom C2000 System on Chip (SoC) issues (for our reference this SoC is used in some Cisco and Meraki products) – basically when the part fails the device is bricked and cannot be recovered. Overview. Cisco support page. Cisco affected products. Cisco/Meraki will replace products but it’s up to customers to pick up the swap out costs.
Automation, SDN and Network Virtualisation
- Thoughts on automation, PacketPushers blog post
- Juniper Networks Junos Automation with Gurudatt Shenoy YouTube video
- Opencontrail network virtualization architecture deep dive
Streaming Telemetry
- Juniper Networks Streaming Telemetry with Dmitry Shokarev YouTube video
- And more Tech Field Day 14 Videos here
Internet
Tips, tricks and tools
- Command-line basics for cybersec professionals erratasec blog post
- myLG is an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool. Mylg website
- Wistar is a tool to help create and share network topologies of multiple virtual machines