Well string and salt really. Wet string!
Security
- SPECTRE and MELTDOWN: a good breakdown through a description of Why the Raspberry Pi isn’t vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
- Main Website for SPECTRE and MELTDOWN
- Useful reddit post listing all the vendor responses to SPECTRE and MELTDOWN
- Infecting the Enterprise: Abusing Office365+Powershell for Covert C2 YouTube video 36 mins
- How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
Linux
- lldpd. A 802.1ab implementation (LLDP) to help you locate neighbors of all your equipment
- tldr - A collection of simplified and community-driven man pages
- Gping is like regular ping, but with a graph
- Cumulus Linux Networking 101 (register to download ebook)
- On December 1, 2017 Linux Journal ceased publication but you can freely access (and download) all the archived mags here
- Junipers OpenContrail Codebase moved to the Linux Foundation
- The Best Linux Apps & Distros of 2017
Docker & Containers
- Docker Networking blog post by Cristian Sirbu
- Cumulus. Troubleshooting your Docker Swarm container network with Host Pack
- Openstack SDN - Building a Containerized OpenStack Lab
- Openstack SDN - OpenContrail With BGP VPN
- A Docker and Iperf3 Tutorial
- Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker
Labs
- vRIN - virtual Route Injector a VM appliance capable of injecting a high number of routes into a network
- SEC-3.3.1 FlexVPN challenge/exploration lab - a lab topology put together in EVE-NG to help sharpen up knowledge and skills with IKev2/FlexVPN
- A Pocket Internet teaching enviroment - github page
- Installing Docker in EVE-NG
- Free lighweight and open Windows OS - ideal for vPCs - ReactOS
- Ostinato Network Traffic Generator and Analyzer
- Wistar Juniper Virtual Topology Manager setup from scratch YouTube video 22 mins
- Sizing your computer for GNS3 and other network labs
VMware
- vRNI - vRealize Network Insight
Cisco
- NetConfig a GUI overly for non-API Cisco gear. Github page here and screenshots
Juniper
- NXTWORK 2017 (like a smaller Cisco Live style event) sessions published for all
- The Hardware Compatibility Tool
- Initial KB article on the SPECTRE and MELTDOWN bugs
- Securing the Mobile Backhaul Infrastructure PDF
- Facebook, Open/R, Juniper, and Open Networking blog post
- On-Demand Training. Included as some free sneak peeks
- Juniper Networks Metro Ethernet Design Guide PDF
- Networkzblogger Juniper Northstar — WAN-SDN Controller post
- New Day One book: Junos Fusion Data Center Up and Running
- Juniper EX4300 Series – Configuration Template
- Using OpenNTI As A Collector For Streaming Telemetry From Juniper Devices: Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3
- Contrail version 10 released - techlibrary
- Does Juniper Need To Be Purchased?
- Try Contrail and AppFormix in a online sandbox
- Campus Networking with Juniper. Michael Mcnamara blog post
Data Centre & Whitebox
- Configuration simplification courtesy of Cumulus Linux
- Cumulus. Five ways to design your container network
- BGP as a Better IGP? When and Where? ipSpace blog post
- Are VXLANs Really the Future of Data Center Networks? Serro blog post
- Automating network troubleshooting with NetQ + Ansible
- Cumulus. VXLAN designs: 3 ways to consider routing and gateway design Part 1 and Part 2
- Cumulus. VXLAN routing with EVPN: asymmetric vs. symmetric model
- Is it Time to Upgrade to VXLAN? Mellanox blog post
- More ipSpace. Using BGP in a Data Center Leaf-and-Spine Fabric
Service Provider
- Why aren’t we fixing route leaks?
- Segment Routing Tutorials
- ipSpace post on BGP incidents and solutions
- Cisco to MikroTik – command translation – OSPF and BGP
Tools and Testing
- Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana to Monitor Network Statistics
- Need to draw a Network diagram on the cheap? Five free tools and an alternative top ten with cost options
- WYSIWYG Regex playground - regexly
- TCP Traceroute Tools
- How to install the Microsoft Windows OpenSSH client and server (in Win 10 Pro) YouTube video 2 mins
- What is your NetFlow strategy?
- Juniper MX How to use ‘family any firewall filter’ to capture two-way traffic
Automation and Configuration Management
- ONAP Amsterdam: An Open Platform For Network Automation
- Automation and AI – What does the future of work look like?
- Basim Aly blog posts: Juniper Network Automation using Python – Part 1 and Part 2
- eNAPALM is a web interface for NAPALM and Netmiko
- Ansible Ask an Expert: Ansible & Networking Feb 22nd webinar
- Network CI/CD Using Ansible and GitLab - YouTube video 44 mins
- What about Day 2 of network automation?
- Speeding up Ansible
Blogs
- Geoff Sullivan - some OpenContrail posts
Wi-Fi
- Wireless Network Engineering Podcast: Capturing Wireless Frames
- A Six-Pack of WLAN-Related Blogs You May Not Know About
DevOps and NetDevOps
- ITSM, DevOps, and why three-tier support should be replaced with Swarming
- Cumulus. DevOps Tools for Modern Data Centers
- Cumulus. NetDevOps: what does it even mean?
Various
- What is the difference between declarative and imperative programming?
- Newly formatted - the Julia Evans zines page
- aggregate6 will compress an unsorted list of IP prefixes (both IPv4 and IPv6). Github page
- Unpatchable? Python script to help you decide. Github page with script
- Propane is a new language for configuring the network
- Batfish a network configuration analysis tool
- A Guide to Open Source for IT Practitioners
- Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
And finally
- I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor. Imagine the Internet when its overun by bots and AI creating this stuff with no human interaction….