DDoS protection of local address space
Docker DDoS testbed describes how to use Docker Desktop to experiment with Real-time DDoS mitigation using BGP RTBH and FlowSpec. In this article, Real-time BGP route analytics are used to...
View ArticleDENT
Introducing DENT OS, switchdev NOS for the rest of us talk, presented at the recent Open Source Summit, describes the Linux Foundation DENT project. The slides from the presentation are available.Linux...
View ArticleReal-time network telemetry for automation
The video discusses telemetry and requirements for network automation, providing an overview of sFlow measurement architecture and a discussion of recently added packet drop monitoring functionality,...
View ArticlesFlow Monitoring for AI
A Proposal towards sFlow Monitoring Dashboards for AI-controlled NRENs is a recent talk by Mariam Kiran (Esnet) presented at the recent GÉANT Telemetry and Big Data Workshop.In the talk, Miram...
View ArticleMultipass
Multipass is a command line tool for running Ubuntu virtual machines on Mac or Windows. Multipass uses the native virtualization capabilities of the host operating system to simplify the creation of...
View ArticleFRR
FRRouting (FRR) is an IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP.This article uses the Docker DDoS testbed to explore...
View ArticleTopology
Real-time network and system metrics as a service describes how to use data captured from the network shown above to explore the functionality of sFlow-RT real-time analytics software. This article...
View ArticleDDoS Mitigation with Juniper, sFlow, and BGP Flowspec
Real-time DDoS mitigation using BGP RTBH and FlowSpec, DDoS protection of local address space, Pushing BGP Flowspec rules to multiple routers, Monitoring DDoS mitigation, and Docker DDoS testbed...
View ArticleInfluxDB 2.0 released
InfluxData advances possibilities of time series data with general availability of InfluxDB 2.0 announced the production release of InfluxDB 2.0. This article demonstrates how to import sFlow data into...
View ArticleTransit delay and queuing
The recently finalized sFlow Transit Delay Structures extension provides visibility into the performance of packet forwarding in a switch or router using the industry standard sFlow protocol.The...
View ArticleIn-band Network Telemetry (INT)
The recent addition of in-band streaming telemetry (INT) measurements to the sFlow industry standard simplifies deployment by addressing the operational challenges of in-band monitoring.The diagram...
View ArticleCONTAINERlab
CONTAINERlab is a Docker orchestration tool for creating virtual network topologies. This article describes how to build and monitor the leaf and spine topology shown above.Note: Docker testbed...
View ArticleCisco 8000 Series routers
Cisco 8000 Series routers are "400G optimized platforms that scale from 10.8 Tbps to 260 Tbps." The routers are built around Cisco Silicon One™ ASICs. The Silicon One ASIC includes the instrumentation...
View ArticleLinux as a network operating system
NVIDIA Linux Switch enables any standard Linux distribution to be used as the operating system on the NVIDIA Spectrum™ switches. Unlike network operating systems that are Linux based, where you are...
View ArticleDDoS mitigation using a Linux switch
Linux as a network operating system describes the benefits of using standard Linux as a network operating system for hardware switches. A key benefit is that the behavior of the physical network can be...
View ArticleNokia Service Router Linux
Nokia Service Router Linux (SR-Linux) is an open source network operating system running on Nokia's merchant silicon based data center switches.The following commands configure SR-Linux to sample...
View ArticleNetdev 0x15
The recent Netdev 0x15 conference included a number of papers diving into the technology behind Linux as a network operating system. Slides and videos are now available on the conference web...
View ArticleContainernet
Containernet is a fork of the Mininet network emulator that uses Docker containers as hosts in emulated network topologies.Multipass describes how build a Mininet testbed that provides real-time...
View ArticleDDoS protection quickstart guide
DDoS Protect is an open source denial of service mitigation tool that uses industry standard sFlow telemetry from routers to detect attacks and automatically deploy BGP remotely triggered blackhole...
View ArticleGrafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is a cloud hosted version of Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. The free tier makes it easy to try out the service and has enough capability to satisfy simple use cases. In this article we...
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