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1 Cybercrime Of $450B Is ATotally Acceptable LossSponsor Interop ITX2 Your New NetworkSponsor Viptela3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchInternets Of Interest Product NewsPacketPushersnet - The LastFiveWatch ThisQuick Survey Internet PrivacyLast Issues Survey Results
Issue Number 53
03302017
The Rhymin and Stealin issue
Thought For The WeekIll be watching you
1 Cybercrime Of $450B Is ATotally Acceptable Lossby Greg Ferro Cybercrime costs the global economy $450 billion according to thishypetastic article from Hiscox (a company that sells cybercrimeinsurance no less)
In 2016 cybercrime cost the global economy over $450billion over 2 billion personal records were stolen and in theUS alone over 100 million Americans had their medicalrecords stolen Steve Langan chief executive at HiscoxInsurance told CNBC
Scary NOT AT ALL The size of the global economy according to the CIA World Fact Bookis $7573 trillion Cybercrime is just a 057 loss overall Thats wellwithin the limit of acceptable losses
Reality Check Heres some data points on current IT security spending
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts global spending oncybersecurity products and services will exceed $1 trillioncumulatively over the next five years from 2017 to 2021Source Cybersecurity Ventures shy The Cybersecurity MarketReport (Link)
So they claim around $200 billion per year over five years If thatsramping up at 10 lets say its $120 billion in 2017
By contrast IDC pegs cybersecurity spending at around $80 billion
According to IDCs analysis worldwide revenues for cybershysecurity related services software and hardware will comein at $736 billion in 2016 and will grow at a compoundannual growth rate (CAGR) of 83 percent through 2020IDC noted that the CAGR for cybershysecurity is faster thanthe overall rate of IT spending growth Source EWeek shyGlobal Cybershysecurity Spending to Top $100B by 2020 IDC(Link)
Lets split the difference and call it $100 billion of IT security spendingSo what about insurance spending that would offset the risk ofcyberthreats
Last year the insurance industry took in $25 billion inpremiums on policies to protect companies from lossesresulting from hacks That was up from around $2 billion ayear before and less than $1 billion two years before thatSource Fortune shy Lloyds CEO Cyber attacks costcompanies $400 billion every year (Link)
The EtherealMind View1 Assume the numbers are grossly inflated to make headlines andcreate free marketing
2 Lets go with a cost of $250 billion to the global economy3 Out of the $75 trillion total in the global economy $250 billion incybercrime losses (gods thats an awful term) are less than02 Thats not even a rounding error
Conclusions1 Companies spent about $100 billion on security in 2017while people stole at least $250 billion
2 IT Security isnt financially significant
3 Losses to cybercrime are 25 times greater than the cost ofprotection Thats not winning
4 The losses are acceptable as proven by the low uptake ofcybercrime insurance
Resources amp LinksLloyds CEO Cyber attacks cost companies $400 billion every year shyFortunecom
The World Factbook shy Central Intelligence Agency
Cybercrime costs the global economy $450 billion CEO shy YahooFinance
Global State of Information Securityreg Survey 2017 shy PwC
Sponsor Interop ITX Where Tech Pros Go For Objective Full Stack ITEducation Interop ITX takes place May 15shy19 at the MGM in Las Vegas JoinGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks for The Future of Networking Summit ndash atwoshyday session where wersquoll take a deep dive into nextshygenerationdevelopments in wide area networks data center networking networkoperations and softwareshydefined security Register for Interop ITX and attend other handsshyon workshops like TheFuture of Data Container Crash Course Dark Reading Cyber SecuritySummit and the Open Source IT Summit The eventrsquos Conferencetracks focus on Security DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Data amp
Analytics ndash all the technologies you need for a successful Full Stack ITstrategy If yoursquore looking to accelerate your career there are alsoplenty of sessions on leadership and professional development Pluscheck out over 100 vendors at Interop ITXrsquos Business Hall where yoursquollhave an opportunity to meet with leading and emerging tech vendors Join us at Interop ITX this May Use promo code PACKETPUSHERSwhen you register and yoursquoll receive 20 off any pass We want to see you in Vegas so visit interopitxcom and reserve yourspot today
2 Your New Networkby Ethan Banks Congratulations You landed the new gig Welcome to your cubeInhale deeply Thats the smell of your new home I hope its not toomusty And hey if youre working from home and it still smells mustythats on you Now To work Youve got a new network to get a handle on Youre theshiny happy network engineer they hired after all Time to startearning your keep How then do you go about gaining control overyour new network
Discover Youll spend the first couple of weeks or so on discovery As you gothrough this process be sure to trust only what you see for yourselfDont believe your wellshymeaning colleagues who will tell you about thisswitch or that firewall Maybe they know Maybe they dont Take all ofthe information down as interesting but dont believe any of itInformation people give you is at best potential facts At worst they
are gross distortions of reality Along the way youll likely find a folder with diagrams These are alllies Most likely those diagrams reflected reality from some engineerspoint of view at some time in the past By the time you lay your eyeson them they are almost assuredly fiction Thats not to say historicalnetwork diagrams arent helpful You can reap IP addresses VLANsinterconnects and so on that are worth checking out More potentialfacts you see Youll convert potential facts into actual facts using CLIshyfu LLDPCDPrecon STP root finding routing neighbor tables and some carefulSNMP queries From there you can move onto the next phase ofgaining control over your new network
Evaluate With a handle on the network as it actually is you can develop asense of horror at what has been revealed The horrifying thingsyouve discovered need to be documented and prioritized Forexample you might end up with a list as follows Single Points of Failure
Only one copper cable connecting entire QA environment to coreSecondary sup engine has failed on core switch 2Link between campus building 2 amp 3 is down triangle is just a V
Security Problems
SNMP community strings left at defaultsVLAN 1 is neither used nor prunedNMS userpass of adminadmin is used by entire IT departmentNo RBAC for routers amp switches
Suboptimal Issues
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
1 Cybercrime Of $450B Is ATotally Acceptable Lossby Greg Ferro Cybercrime costs the global economy $450 billion according to thishypetastic article from Hiscox (a company that sells cybercrimeinsurance no less)
In 2016 cybercrime cost the global economy over $450billion over 2 billion personal records were stolen and in theUS alone over 100 million Americans had their medicalrecords stolen Steve Langan chief executive at HiscoxInsurance told CNBC
Scary NOT AT ALL The size of the global economy according to the CIA World Fact Bookis $7573 trillion Cybercrime is just a 057 loss overall Thats wellwithin the limit of acceptable losses
Reality Check Heres some data points on current IT security spending
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts global spending oncybersecurity products and services will exceed $1 trillioncumulatively over the next five years from 2017 to 2021Source Cybersecurity Ventures shy The Cybersecurity MarketReport (Link)
So they claim around $200 billion per year over five years If thatsramping up at 10 lets say its $120 billion in 2017
By contrast IDC pegs cybersecurity spending at around $80 billion
According to IDCs analysis worldwide revenues for cybershysecurity related services software and hardware will comein at $736 billion in 2016 and will grow at a compoundannual growth rate (CAGR) of 83 percent through 2020IDC noted that the CAGR for cybershysecurity is faster thanthe overall rate of IT spending growth Source EWeek shyGlobal Cybershysecurity Spending to Top $100B by 2020 IDC(Link)
Lets split the difference and call it $100 billion of IT security spendingSo what about insurance spending that would offset the risk ofcyberthreats
Last year the insurance industry took in $25 billion inpremiums on policies to protect companies from lossesresulting from hacks That was up from around $2 billion ayear before and less than $1 billion two years before thatSource Fortune shy Lloyds CEO Cyber attacks costcompanies $400 billion every year (Link)
The EtherealMind View1 Assume the numbers are grossly inflated to make headlines andcreate free marketing
2 Lets go with a cost of $250 billion to the global economy3 Out of the $75 trillion total in the global economy $250 billion incybercrime losses (gods thats an awful term) are less than02 Thats not even a rounding error
Conclusions1 Companies spent about $100 billion on security in 2017while people stole at least $250 billion
2 IT Security isnt financially significant
3 Losses to cybercrime are 25 times greater than the cost ofprotection Thats not winning
4 The losses are acceptable as proven by the low uptake ofcybercrime insurance
Resources amp LinksLloyds CEO Cyber attacks cost companies $400 billion every year shyFortunecom
The World Factbook shy Central Intelligence Agency
Cybercrime costs the global economy $450 billion CEO shy YahooFinance
Global State of Information Securityreg Survey 2017 shy PwC
Sponsor Interop ITX Where Tech Pros Go For Objective Full Stack ITEducation Interop ITX takes place May 15shy19 at the MGM in Las Vegas JoinGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks for The Future of Networking Summit ndash atwoshyday session where wersquoll take a deep dive into nextshygenerationdevelopments in wide area networks data center networking networkoperations and softwareshydefined security Register for Interop ITX and attend other handsshyon workshops like TheFuture of Data Container Crash Course Dark Reading Cyber SecuritySummit and the Open Source IT Summit The eventrsquos Conferencetracks focus on Security DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Data amp
Analytics ndash all the technologies you need for a successful Full Stack ITstrategy If yoursquore looking to accelerate your career there are alsoplenty of sessions on leadership and professional development Pluscheck out over 100 vendors at Interop ITXrsquos Business Hall where yoursquollhave an opportunity to meet with leading and emerging tech vendors Join us at Interop ITX this May Use promo code PACKETPUSHERSwhen you register and yoursquoll receive 20 off any pass We want to see you in Vegas so visit interopitxcom and reserve yourspot today
2 Your New Networkby Ethan Banks Congratulations You landed the new gig Welcome to your cubeInhale deeply Thats the smell of your new home I hope its not toomusty And hey if youre working from home and it still smells mustythats on you Now To work Youve got a new network to get a handle on Youre theshiny happy network engineer they hired after all Time to startearning your keep How then do you go about gaining control overyour new network
Discover Youll spend the first couple of weeks or so on discovery As you gothrough this process be sure to trust only what you see for yourselfDont believe your wellshymeaning colleagues who will tell you about thisswitch or that firewall Maybe they know Maybe they dont Take all ofthe information down as interesting but dont believe any of itInformation people give you is at best potential facts At worst they
are gross distortions of reality Along the way youll likely find a folder with diagrams These are alllies Most likely those diagrams reflected reality from some engineerspoint of view at some time in the past By the time you lay your eyeson them they are almost assuredly fiction Thats not to say historicalnetwork diagrams arent helpful You can reap IP addresses VLANsinterconnects and so on that are worth checking out More potentialfacts you see Youll convert potential facts into actual facts using CLIshyfu LLDPCDPrecon STP root finding routing neighbor tables and some carefulSNMP queries From there you can move onto the next phase ofgaining control over your new network
Evaluate With a handle on the network as it actually is you can develop asense of horror at what has been revealed The horrifying thingsyouve discovered need to be documented and prioritized Forexample you might end up with a list as follows Single Points of Failure
Only one copper cable connecting entire QA environment to coreSecondary sup engine has failed on core switch 2Link between campus building 2 amp 3 is down triangle is just a V
Security Problems
SNMP community strings left at defaultsVLAN 1 is neither used nor prunedNMS userpass of adminadmin is used by entire IT departmentNo RBAC for routers amp switches
Suboptimal Issues
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
By contrast IDC pegs cybersecurity spending at around $80 billion
According to IDCs analysis worldwide revenues for cybershysecurity related services software and hardware will comein at $736 billion in 2016 and will grow at a compoundannual growth rate (CAGR) of 83 percent through 2020IDC noted that the CAGR for cybershysecurity is faster thanthe overall rate of IT spending growth Source EWeek shyGlobal Cybershysecurity Spending to Top $100B by 2020 IDC(Link)
Lets split the difference and call it $100 billion of IT security spendingSo what about insurance spending that would offset the risk ofcyberthreats
Last year the insurance industry took in $25 billion inpremiums on policies to protect companies from lossesresulting from hacks That was up from around $2 billion ayear before and less than $1 billion two years before thatSource Fortune shy Lloyds CEO Cyber attacks costcompanies $400 billion every year (Link)
The EtherealMind View1 Assume the numbers are grossly inflated to make headlines andcreate free marketing
2 Lets go with a cost of $250 billion to the global economy3 Out of the $75 trillion total in the global economy $250 billion incybercrime losses (gods thats an awful term) are less than02 Thats not even a rounding error
Conclusions1 Companies spent about $100 billion on security in 2017while people stole at least $250 billion
2 IT Security isnt financially significant
3 Losses to cybercrime are 25 times greater than the cost ofprotection Thats not winning
4 The losses are acceptable as proven by the low uptake ofcybercrime insurance
Resources amp LinksLloyds CEO Cyber attacks cost companies $400 billion every year shyFortunecom
The World Factbook shy Central Intelligence Agency
Cybercrime costs the global economy $450 billion CEO shy YahooFinance
Global State of Information Securityreg Survey 2017 shy PwC
Sponsor Interop ITX Where Tech Pros Go For Objective Full Stack ITEducation Interop ITX takes place May 15shy19 at the MGM in Las Vegas JoinGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks for The Future of Networking Summit ndash atwoshyday session where wersquoll take a deep dive into nextshygenerationdevelopments in wide area networks data center networking networkoperations and softwareshydefined security Register for Interop ITX and attend other handsshyon workshops like TheFuture of Data Container Crash Course Dark Reading Cyber SecuritySummit and the Open Source IT Summit The eventrsquos Conferencetracks focus on Security DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Data amp
Analytics ndash all the technologies you need for a successful Full Stack ITstrategy If yoursquore looking to accelerate your career there are alsoplenty of sessions on leadership and professional development Pluscheck out over 100 vendors at Interop ITXrsquos Business Hall where yoursquollhave an opportunity to meet with leading and emerging tech vendors Join us at Interop ITX this May Use promo code PACKETPUSHERSwhen you register and yoursquoll receive 20 off any pass We want to see you in Vegas so visit interopitxcom and reserve yourspot today
2 Your New Networkby Ethan Banks Congratulations You landed the new gig Welcome to your cubeInhale deeply Thats the smell of your new home I hope its not toomusty And hey if youre working from home and it still smells mustythats on you Now To work Youve got a new network to get a handle on Youre theshiny happy network engineer they hired after all Time to startearning your keep How then do you go about gaining control overyour new network
Discover Youll spend the first couple of weeks or so on discovery As you gothrough this process be sure to trust only what you see for yourselfDont believe your wellshymeaning colleagues who will tell you about thisswitch or that firewall Maybe they know Maybe they dont Take all ofthe information down as interesting but dont believe any of itInformation people give you is at best potential facts At worst they
are gross distortions of reality Along the way youll likely find a folder with diagrams These are alllies Most likely those diagrams reflected reality from some engineerspoint of view at some time in the past By the time you lay your eyeson them they are almost assuredly fiction Thats not to say historicalnetwork diagrams arent helpful You can reap IP addresses VLANsinterconnects and so on that are worth checking out More potentialfacts you see Youll convert potential facts into actual facts using CLIshyfu LLDPCDPrecon STP root finding routing neighbor tables and some carefulSNMP queries From there you can move onto the next phase ofgaining control over your new network
Evaluate With a handle on the network as it actually is you can develop asense of horror at what has been revealed The horrifying thingsyouve discovered need to be documented and prioritized Forexample you might end up with a list as follows Single Points of Failure
Only one copper cable connecting entire QA environment to coreSecondary sup engine has failed on core switch 2Link between campus building 2 amp 3 is down triangle is just a V
Security Problems
SNMP community strings left at defaultsVLAN 1 is neither used nor prunedNMS userpass of adminadmin is used by entire IT departmentNo RBAC for routers amp switches
Suboptimal Issues
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
3 Losses to cybercrime are 25 times greater than the cost ofprotection Thats not winning
4 The losses are acceptable as proven by the low uptake ofcybercrime insurance
Resources amp LinksLloyds CEO Cyber attacks cost companies $400 billion every year shyFortunecom
The World Factbook shy Central Intelligence Agency
Cybercrime costs the global economy $450 billion CEO shy YahooFinance
Global State of Information Securityreg Survey 2017 shy PwC
Sponsor Interop ITX Where Tech Pros Go For Objective Full Stack ITEducation Interop ITX takes place May 15shy19 at the MGM in Las Vegas JoinGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks for The Future of Networking Summit ndash atwoshyday session where wersquoll take a deep dive into nextshygenerationdevelopments in wide area networks data center networking networkoperations and softwareshydefined security Register for Interop ITX and attend other handsshyon workshops like TheFuture of Data Container Crash Course Dark Reading Cyber SecuritySummit and the Open Source IT Summit The eventrsquos Conferencetracks focus on Security DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Data amp
Analytics ndash all the technologies you need for a successful Full Stack ITstrategy If yoursquore looking to accelerate your career there are alsoplenty of sessions on leadership and professional development Pluscheck out over 100 vendors at Interop ITXrsquos Business Hall where yoursquollhave an opportunity to meet with leading and emerging tech vendors Join us at Interop ITX this May Use promo code PACKETPUSHERSwhen you register and yoursquoll receive 20 off any pass We want to see you in Vegas so visit interopitxcom and reserve yourspot today
2 Your New Networkby Ethan Banks Congratulations You landed the new gig Welcome to your cubeInhale deeply Thats the smell of your new home I hope its not toomusty And hey if youre working from home and it still smells mustythats on you Now To work Youve got a new network to get a handle on Youre theshiny happy network engineer they hired after all Time to startearning your keep How then do you go about gaining control overyour new network
Discover Youll spend the first couple of weeks or so on discovery As you gothrough this process be sure to trust only what you see for yourselfDont believe your wellshymeaning colleagues who will tell you about thisswitch or that firewall Maybe they know Maybe they dont Take all ofthe information down as interesting but dont believe any of itInformation people give you is at best potential facts At worst they
are gross distortions of reality Along the way youll likely find a folder with diagrams These are alllies Most likely those diagrams reflected reality from some engineerspoint of view at some time in the past By the time you lay your eyeson them they are almost assuredly fiction Thats not to say historicalnetwork diagrams arent helpful You can reap IP addresses VLANsinterconnects and so on that are worth checking out More potentialfacts you see Youll convert potential facts into actual facts using CLIshyfu LLDPCDPrecon STP root finding routing neighbor tables and some carefulSNMP queries From there you can move onto the next phase ofgaining control over your new network
Evaluate With a handle on the network as it actually is you can develop asense of horror at what has been revealed The horrifying thingsyouve discovered need to be documented and prioritized Forexample you might end up with a list as follows Single Points of Failure
Only one copper cable connecting entire QA environment to coreSecondary sup engine has failed on core switch 2Link between campus building 2 amp 3 is down triangle is just a V
Security Problems
SNMP community strings left at defaultsVLAN 1 is neither used nor prunedNMS userpass of adminadmin is used by entire IT departmentNo RBAC for routers amp switches
Suboptimal Issues
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Analytics ndash all the technologies you need for a successful Full Stack ITstrategy If yoursquore looking to accelerate your career there are alsoplenty of sessions on leadership and professional development Pluscheck out over 100 vendors at Interop ITXrsquos Business Hall where yoursquollhave an opportunity to meet with leading and emerging tech vendors Join us at Interop ITX this May Use promo code PACKETPUSHERSwhen you register and yoursquoll receive 20 off any pass We want to see you in Vegas so visit interopitxcom and reserve yourspot today
2 Your New Networkby Ethan Banks Congratulations You landed the new gig Welcome to your cubeInhale deeply Thats the smell of your new home I hope its not toomusty And hey if youre working from home and it still smells mustythats on you Now To work Youve got a new network to get a handle on Youre theshiny happy network engineer they hired after all Time to startearning your keep How then do you go about gaining control overyour new network
Discover Youll spend the first couple of weeks or so on discovery As you gothrough this process be sure to trust only what you see for yourselfDont believe your wellshymeaning colleagues who will tell you about thisswitch or that firewall Maybe they know Maybe they dont Take all ofthe information down as interesting but dont believe any of itInformation people give you is at best potential facts At worst they
are gross distortions of reality Along the way youll likely find a folder with diagrams These are alllies Most likely those diagrams reflected reality from some engineerspoint of view at some time in the past By the time you lay your eyeson them they are almost assuredly fiction Thats not to say historicalnetwork diagrams arent helpful You can reap IP addresses VLANsinterconnects and so on that are worth checking out More potentialfacts you see Youll convert potential facts into actual facts using CLIshyfu LLDPCDPrecon STP root finding routing neighbor tables and some carefulSNMP queries From there you can move onto the next phase ofgaining control over your new network
Evaluate With a handle on the network as it actually is you can develop asense of horror at what has been revealed The horrifying thingsyouve discovered need to be documented and prioritized Forexample you might end up with a list as follows Single Points of Failure
Only one copper cable connecting entire QA environment to coreSecondary sup engine has failed on core switch 2Link between campus building 2 amp 3 is down triangle is just a V
Security Problems
SNMP community strings left at defaultsVLAN 1 is neither used nor prunedNMS userpass of adminadmin is used by entire IT departmentNo RBAC for routers amp switches
Suboptimal Issues
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
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Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
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VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
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Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
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Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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are gross distortions of reality Along the way youll likely find a folder with diagrams These are alllies Most likely those diagrams reflected reality from some engineerspoint of view at some time in the past By the time you lay your eyeson them they are almost assuredly fiction Thats not to say historicalnetwork diagrams arent helpful You can reap IP addresses VLANsinterconnects and so on that are worth checking out More potentialfacts you see Youll convert potential facts into actual facts using CLIshyfu LLDPCDPrecon STP root finding routing neighbor tables and some carefulSNMP queries From there you can move onto the next phase ofgaining control over your new network
Evaluate With a handle on the network as it actually is you can develop asense of horror at what has been revealed The horrifying thingsyouve discovered need to be documented and prioritized Forexample you might end up with a list as follows Single Points of Failure
Only one copper cable connecting entire QA environment to coreSecondary sup engine has failed on core switch 2Link between campus building 2 amp 3 is down triangle is just a V
Security Problems
SNMP community strings left at defaultsVLAN 1 is neither used nor prunedNMS userpass of adminadmin is used by entire IT departmentNo RBAC for routers amp switches
Suboptimal Issues
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
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Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Bogus routing path between core 1 and campus switch 2 viaWAN routerSTP root for VLAN 221 converged on edge closet switch in floor3 Why is that a transit SIGHCloset switch in Redwood building keeps losing OSPF adjacencyat ~2pm every day for 3 minutes Why
And so on Know your enemy Once you do you can move into thenext phase
Seek amp DestroyNow that you know whats bad you can work on making it right Someof the things you discover are likely to be significant business risksMany single points of failure are this way You need to sit with yourmanager explain your findings with the potential risk and recommenda course of action to rectify the situation You might want to go for the lowshyhanging fruit firstmdashthe things you canfix with little or no disruption to the business Bigger changes requiringa significant change window can be tough to get as a new staffmember If you can notch some small wins to demonstrate your abilityyoull earn the confidence of management That confidence is thefoundation for approval of more significant changes you might desireto make later Consider that you arent doing massive reshydesign in this phase Yourefixing whats critically broken ensuring that the network functions in atrustworthy fashion and addressing the most egregious businessrisks In other words youre making the best of what youve got After youve sorted out all the things on your network that are keepingyou up at night you can relax At least a little bit
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Maintain amp TweakA network that isnt undergoing constant repair or upgrades is beingmaintained In this phase you can work on all the things that you donthave time to get to during major projects This includes checking thosethings that you tend to ignore Here you can make your tools work for you Perhaps you woulddevelop a script that polls interfaces on key switches for Etherneterrors and mails you a report You could dig deep into the alertingcapabilities of your NMS and make sure its telling you everything youneed it to You might define standard configuration templates andmake sure all gear is compliant How about getting those peskyinterface descriptions up to date In the maintain amp tweak phase youll be doing a lot of clean up andperfecting work As you do that youll also be learning the businessbetter Youll discover where the network is working well for thebusiness and where it isnt When you find the operational problemsyoull be ready for the next phase
RearchitectBefore making significant design changes youll have needed to getthrough the first four phases first Youll need a solid network thatsstable predictable and well understood before you start knockingdown walls and busting out windows Network changes are (or at least should be) driven by business needsChanges might be as simple as needing a few more ports in the datacenter to handle a few more servers inbound Changes might be aradical as a completely redesigned Internet edge to bring in capacityand redundancy When you get to the change phase youve gotten a solid handle onthe business and how it leverages the network Youve also developed
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
Sponsor Viptela Join Viptela and the Packet Pushers atCentrifuge
If youre attending Interop ITX in Las Vegas youre invited to joinViptela the Packet Pushers and your networking peers for live event
with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
Did We Miss Something
Got an link or an article to share Email it tohumaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet
The End Bit
Sponsorship and Advertising - Send an email to humaninfrastructurepacketpushersnet for more information Youcould reach 5013 people Human Infrastructure is bi-weekly newsletter with view perspectives and opinions It is edited andpublished by Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray from PacketPushersnet If youd like to contribute emailDrew at drewconrymurraypacketpushersnet We dont give away your email address or personal details because that would suck Copyright copy 2017 Packet Pushers Interactive LLC All rights reserved unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
a good relationship with your coshyworkers as well as managementTherefore recommending niceshytoshyhave changes and specifying needshytoshyhave changes comes from a position of confident knowledge andhuman relationships And now that youve come this far its not your new network anymoreIts your old network Your friend In some ways you hate to admityour family But even so maybe its time to find another new networkSomewhere fresh you can stamp with your expertise Maybe Justmaybe
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3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
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Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
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VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
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Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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with food drink and great conversation Bring your questions challenges and future projections to discussand get an opportunity to learn about the latest in SDshyWAN fromnetwork architects and engineers And dont forget to say to Hi toGreg Ferro and Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers Register here and well see you in Vegas When Monday May 15 630 pm Where Centrifuge MGM
3 How Much Is Your InternetPrivacy Worth Heres HowMuchby Drew Conry-Murray The United States Senate and the House of Representatives havevoted to overturn FCC regulations that would have required ISPs andmobile broadband providers to get their customersrsquo consent beforeselling customer information to third parties If President Trump signs the legislation the rules will officially be killedAccording to a story by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica a White Housestatement indicates the President is likely to sign As you might imagine many people were outraged about this turn ofevents (Some political action before the votes rather than outrageafter would have served everyone better but here we are)
In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
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Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
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Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
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about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
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Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
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In fact at least two people decided that when it comes to Internetprivacy turnabout is fair play Theyrsquove launched GoFundMe projects toraise money to buy and publish legislatorsrsquo Web browsing information Search Internet History Buy Congress Data I dont know if these efforts are 1) legitimate 2) legal or 3) feasible butas this newsletter was going to press theyd raised more than$215000 combined Meanwhile The Verge followed the money The site posted an articlethat lists each senator and representative who voted to undo theprivacy rules and the donations those congresspeople have receivedfrom the telecommunications industry in their most recent elections Some of the biggest winners in the Senate include
Kentuckyrsquos Mitch McConnel $251110South Dakotarsquos John Thune $215000Missourirsquos Roy Blunt $185550Mississippirsquos Roger Wicker $151800My own PA senator Pat Toomey $143456
Other senators were much cheaper John Kennedy from Louisianapriced your Internet privacy at a mere thousand bucks Thats quite abargain
Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
Cant get enough newsletters Check out Link Propagation our newestpublication We send you a free weekly digest with tech news interesting blogsand industry announcements all curated by the Packet Pushers Its an easyway to keep up and stay informed Subscribe at packetpushersnetlink-propagation
Quick Survey Internet Privacy
Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
Last Issues Survey Results
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Join the Datanauts on their missionto bust silos and explore the latestdevelopments in cloudconvergence data centers andmore Sign up free here
Network Break is a weeklypodcast that delivers news ampanalysis on the networking industryin a fun fastshypaced style Subscribehere
Internets Of Interest A collection of pre-loved links that might interest you Pre-lovedbecause I liked them enough to put into this newsletter Its not true love By Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray
Learn Programming or Perish() Matt Oswalt dives into the debate on whether network engineers needto become programmers His post sets out some points he raised in arecent Packet Pushers podcast on the same subject You should readthe whole post but Ill risk summarizing it in a couple of points
First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
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Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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First network engineers should learn to write and maintain scriptsSecond dont confuse vendor certifications with an understanding offundamental networking concepts Certs can get you in the door but adeep knowledge of fundamentals will enable you to solve problemsand get creative
If painters learned like the network industry wants us to learn thenart schools would only teach how to replicate the Mona Lisa
Will Elon Musk Save Us From ArtificialIntelligence Vanity Fair has a compelling story on an intramural debate amongSilicon Valley billionaires and computer researchers on whether AI willusher in a new era of prosperity or be the downfall of the human raceThough light on technical detail the story pits Elon Musk an AIsceptic against folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg who areracing full speed ahead to develop computer intelligence My own opinion is that if and when we get real AI (like porn AI is hardto define but you know it when you see it) it will for a short time be asource of wonder and possibility And then it will be coshyopted for the acquisition of wealth and powerjust like everything else
Corporations In The Age Of Inequality Speaking of wealth and power an article in the Harvard BusinessReview examines how inequality has increased not just among
workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
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Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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workers but among corporations as well Using Google as anexample the author examines the impact of the winnershytakeshymostdynamic that has emerged in the technology sector enabling the mostpowerful companies to drive up salaries and benefits for a relativelysmall number of people
much of the rise of between-firm inequality and thereforeinequality in general can be attributed to three factors the rise ofoutsourcing the adoption of IT and the cumulative effects of winner-take-most competition
The Weekly Show channel is ouroneshyhour deep dive on networkingtechnology Subscribe today
Priority Queue tackles niche andnerdy tech topics and cuttingshyedgeresearch projects Subscribe here
Product News Find out about interesting new products or get essential information
about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
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Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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about things you might already be using
VMware Kills Off Third-Party vSwitches VMware is announcing the end of the road for thirdshyparty vSwitchesincluding Ciscos Nexus 1000V VMware will deprecate and eventuallyeliminate API support for all vSwitches except vSphere Standard andDistributed Switches and the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) LINK
Recent PodcastsThe last five podcasts published on Packet Pushers
PacketPushersnet - The Last FivePQ Show 109 A Look Inside DMEVPN Datanauts 077 Transitioning To A Less Technical Role Network Break 128 Ciscorsquos Big TelNet Vulnerability Google Scolds Symantec Show 332 Donrsquot Believe The Programming Hype PQ Show 108 Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup
Watch This
Where we collect some videos that make us reflect think about our inner livesor just entertain us
This short animated sci-fi piece plays like a movie trailer for a Ridley Scott-esqueconcept
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Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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Now that Congress has opened the door for ISPs to resell customersdata will you use a personal VPN A I already use a personal VPN B Ill pay for a personal VPN service C Ill use a free VPN service D Im not worried about it E It doesnt matter what I do Theyll get me somehow
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