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by Nick Buraglio — 2 years ago

NIX4NetEng #6 DNS, ad-blocking, and quality of experience

The sixth [and arguably very overdue] installment of my NIX4NetEng series, this began as an overly complex diatribe about DNS. As it evolved, I realized that DNS is so complex and far reaching that it could never be contained in one meager... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 2 years ago

Buzzwords, technology, terminology, and the interconnection of modern networking

I’m way overdue for a soapbox session — I found this one in my drafts and thought it was something I needed to put out there. It’s already dated in terminology but that actually helps make the point – it’s hard... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 2 years ago

Building Interdomain SDN part 3

A few years ago I wrote some text on interdomain SDN. Years later, work is being done, smart people are thinking about it and building ways to make it a reality. Not being one to give up on an idea, I gave this presentation in may at ChiNOG... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 3 years ago

Solarwinds Orion from a UNIX user perspective

Back in February of this year (2015) I was introduced to Solarwinds when they presented to us at Networking Field day 9. Until then I knew of SolarWinds products but only at a cursory level; I had never really seen or used their stuff since... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 3 years ago

Brocade Vyatta Install and OpenFlow 1.3 on ICX 7450

I recently had a need to test OpenFlow on the brocade ICX 7450 for a fairly good sized, high visibility project. The basic goal is pretty simple, Layer2 path provisioning. Straightforward and fairly well supported in OpenFlow, even from the... Read more →