Tools, Tips and Reviews for Network Engineers
Author: Andres Villalva Attending our weekly data center project meeting the other day, one of the network engineers was confronted with an incomplete action item against his name. He responded light heartedly by declaring that we were speaking to a ‘virtual instance’ of himself and that this particular instance had been assigned limited resources to [...]
GNS3 is a routing simulator and allows you to simulate Cisco routers, switches and firewalls as well as simulate Juniper routers too. In this post we are going to download and install GNS3. To begin we need to download the software – a simple Google search takes us to http://www.gns3.net/download to be able to download [...]
Juniper Networks EX4300 multi-layer Ethernet switches are fast, secure and reliable platforms providing compact standards based connectivity for branch office, enterprise networks and data centers. Yes, if you haven’t guessed by now, we really like these switches. Designed for the access and distribution layers, the EX4200 and EX3200 series switches allows Juniper to enter markets [...]
Open Source Router Maker Vyatta Rolls Out New Release of OS
Is open source routing closing the router gap? By Jim Duffy, Network World Vyatta, the open source networking vendor that makes its living tweaking Cisco’s nose, this week rolled out a new release of its operating system software. Vyatta 6.0 features a remote access API that enables customers to control large scale Vyatta systems using [...]