Design
Network Design — Keeping it simple
Since the dawn of time people have skirted best practice and banged together networks, putting the proverbial square peg in the esoteric round hole. For example, new vendor XYZ’s …
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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 …
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BGP Essentials – The Art of Path Manipulation
Most enterprise networks use BGP to peer with their Internet Service Providers if they want to be multi-homed. Many factors come into play when determining how traffic should flow, …
Read MoreUsing /31 subnets for point-to-point interfaces
Recently a “colleague”, I use that term very loosely here, was reviewing my recommendations for changes on his network. Since they’re rather tight on public IP space, and require …
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