Ken's Blog
Network Nugget #5: Verifying IPV4 and VPNV4 BGP neighbours...
Thursday, 03 December 2009 16:37.Whilst testing SP MPLS core networks one of the commands I inevitably use to ensure that all is good in the BGP 'hood is the BGP summary neighbours command. One slightly annoying thing is that you can never
Cisco IOS XE a departure from the norm...
Thursday, 03 December 2009 15:22.I've been working with the ASR1006 platform recently and it's been a bit like driving an electric car about. Whilst all the Tesla (note: other brands of high performance electric car are available....golf carts, K.I.T.T, etc.) controls are familiar if something mechanical goes wrong all the experience
Network Nugget #4 - What's in a vrf ??
Monday, 17 August 2009 08:56.A useful command has started to crop up in newer IOS revisions which allows you to check all useful configuration associated to a particular VPN. Perhaps a bit more SP useful than Enterprise useful but a very good time saver, and configuration error checking command nevertheless.
Network Nugget #3 - Cause a traffic jam.....
Friday, 26 June 2009 14:27.I've been experimenting with an open source traffic generator which, from initial tests, seems like a pretty useful portable tool:
D-ITG, Distributed Internet Traffic Generator
Have a look if only to discover the word "stochastic" !
Home-counties bandwidth Favela.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:46.I wasn’t as quick off the mark as Peter Job about the Digital Britain report………….and for good reason as I’m…..gulp….this is such a difficult admission to make……….the stigma really is causing embarrassment for my family and neighbours........I didn’t think it would ever happen to me…….OK I’ll just say it…….I live on the wrong side of the Digital Britain tracks!
