You’ve been doing networking for a long time, and you know that every additional layer makes troubleshooting harder. Extending Layer 2 private networks with VXLAN and finding out that your toolkits don’t span both the underlay and overlay networks Over Continue...

A year ago, I wrote a blog article about IPv4 exhaustion. A year ago, it was still something of an arbitrary thing, set for the far distant future, future… The future is now. ARIN Is Out of IP Addresses A year ago, when I first wrote this article, the Continue...

Unsurprisingly, this blog/forum has delivered the “Proprietary = Evil, Open = Good” message in many different formats. Often times, we tend to forget to actually backup this message with any specific stories. Everyone loves stories, so for today's post Continue...