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IPv6 in XCP 1.6
The intent of this post is to document how to enable IPv6 in XCP 1.6 and manage the host using IPv6 transport. I hope Google leads many people to this page, as I wasn’t able to find anything else on...
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Simplifying Your Junos SLAX Development Environment
I’m excited by the possibilities that network programmability offers network operators. Through JUNOS SLAX scripts, Juniper has offered a simple mechanism for programming its routers for many years....
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L2TPv3 in Linux Using IPv6 Endpoints
Pseudowires have traditionally been deployed in ISP and wireless provider networks to carry Ethernet and TDM frames across an IP/MPLS network. Now you can find an implementation of L2TPv3 in the Linux...
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Peter Löthberg’s Terastream Presentation at RIPE 67
Do you ever wonder why the industry keeps layering complexity on top of complexity to scale IP networks? Perhaps you feel like there must be a better way to build IP networks. Peter describes an...
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Five Years of Going Solo
About six years ago, I knew my career needed a change in direction. What I expected in the change at the time resembled nothing close to what transpired. In the fall of 2008, my circumstances were such...
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IPv6 in Docker Containers on DigitalOcean
This post details how I enabled IPv6 addresses in docker containers on DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean supports IPv6 in its London 1 and Singapore 1 data centers as of July 2014. Create a droplet using the...
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Executing Arbitrary Junos ‘Show’ Commands with PyEZ and ncclient
Still screen scraping routers with Expect scripts? It’s time to move to NETCONF, the industry standard for communicating with network infrastructure. The protocol was heavily influenced by Juniper’s...
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The days of kludgy hacks for IPv6-connected docker containers are over. A recent PR merged native IPv6 functionality into the docker daemon. The new bits have not yet made it into the docker ppa...
View ArticleInstalling Python 3.6 for AWS Lambda Development
Python 3.6 is currently the only python 3.x version that AWS Lambda supports. I’m writing this post to document the installation process on the linux distributions I use. Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 or...
View Article5 Minutes to Firecracker with Packet
I was eager to try Firecracker after hearing about its release at re:Invent 2018. The microVM technology require access to the hardware; a bare metal server is needed. GCP and AWS both offer bare metal...
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