Juniper announced their Junosphere emulator recently and have been smugly telling everyone how wonderful it is. Except it isn’t. Here is my take FWIW.
EIGRP Goodbye Message
29th May 2011 by
Found this in the Cisco IOS 15.1M manuals today
IP Routing: EIGRP Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 15.1M&T
Goodbye Message
The goodbye message is a feature designed to improve EIGRP network convergence. The goodbye message is broadcast when an EIGRP routing process is shut down to inform adjacent peers about the impending topology change. This feature allows supporting EIGRP peers to synchronize and recalculate neighbor relationships more efficiently than would occur if the peers discovered the topology change after the hold timer expired.
Egregious Use of “Cloud” – Cisco Wireless LAN Flex Cloud Controller
29th May 2011 by
Because nothing says “Cloud Computering” like a Wireless LAN Controller.
IOS Memory Tables Removed From Documentation
28th May 2011 by
From IOS 15.1M&T release notes at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_1/release/notes/151TFEAT.html Memory Recommendations The memory recommendation tables have been removed from the Cisco IOS Release 15.1M&T release notes to improve the usability of the release notes documentation. The memory recommendations that were provided by these tables are available through Cisco Feature Navigator. So the only way to check the [...]
GoldenEggs x86-64 Server Comparison and Visualisation
26th May 2011 by
This web site is astonishing. The author has looked the fundamental elements of the servers from all the major vendors, then reduced it into an easy to use set of PDFs that provide a infographical view on their capabilities and features. It’s an astonishing piece of work.
Internets of Interest:26 May 2011
26th May 2011 by
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 26 May 2011:
Show 45 – Arista – EOS Network Software Architecture – Webinar
25th May 2011 by
This is the recording of the sponsored Arista Networks Webinar on the EOS Software Architecture. EOS is the operating system that runs on the Arista Networks switches. Arista Networks has been shaking up the switching business with their use of merchant silicon and Linux-based OS for a new and unique networking that is completely different to everyone else.
A previous show on Arista in the Data Centre was very popular and Arista have returned on the back of this success to talk more about their products.
On the program we had:
* Ken Duda, Founder and VP of Software Engineering
Hugh Holbrook, co-author of the PIM-SM specification and software engineer
Adam Sweeney, Director of Software Engineering
Internets of Interest:22 May 11
22nd May 2011 by
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 22 May 11:
Show Ip Eigrp Topology All
22nd May 2011 by
Once upon a time the command was “show ip eigrp topology” to show EIGRP topology, now it’s “show ip eigrp topology all” and the old command show only Feasible Successors.
