Quite a while ago I had a need for some network duct tape… Policy Based Routing while useful should only IMHO be used as a temporary fix. But as you know, temporary things soon become part of production and they end up staying around far too long. But I digress. I had a need for […]
Cisco Nexus 2000: A Love/Hate Relationship
My feelings towards the Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) are hardly a secret. The myriad of design choices and platform limitations present engineers with some rather difficult decisions. Because of this, I’ve seen a handful of engineers reverse course on their current design due to limitations. It’s because of this that I have harsh feelings […]
Cisco Systems Awesomesauce aka Full Tilt Boogie
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone from Cisco Systems for inviting us into the CCIC (Cisco Cloud Innovation Center), this was an amazing room to hold our discussions. We started off with a greeting from Omar Sultan who then brought our old friend Ron Fuller. Ron gave us a quick […]
BPDU the next incrementation
As I feel this may be a regular section of the blog due to my lack of availability. Please suggest a better name for this “series”. I would certainly appreciate it, as would my readers who have heard enough of my bad humor… SSL as we know it has been compromised! The other Tony, as […]
BPDU – Blog Post Data Unit?
My most recently collection of interesting bits of data found out on the blogsphere/internets. Due to my lack of time, I’ve decided to recycle what I find out on the ‘net and share it here. Please bare with me while I try to come up with an interesting name for such an unoriginal type of […]
Network Duct Tape Gone Wrong
As many of you may know, I’m in the middle of a huge network redesign, last week our new firewalls finally arrived and it became time for us to start migrating services onto the edge network I’ve been building for the past couple months. Unfortunately, the first thing they wanted to move was a group […]
