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“OSPF or IS-IS is most probably good enough for your data center… and if it isn’t, I sincerely hope you have an architecture/design team in place and don’t design your data center fabrics based on free information floating around the ‘net”
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“So far, EBGP is the only reasonable choice in very large leaf-and-spine fabrics… but does it really scale better than a link-state IGP in smaller fabrics?”
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“I would understand why someone within Cisco would have a vested interest to make EVPN configurations complex, but I fail to see why Arista and Juniper are playing along.”
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“RHEL and CentOS Stream can now build a community with all the associated benefits possible: better docs, more/earlier testing, quicker fixes/responses, more community support options, etc.”
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“Writing automated tests can be a complex process… open source tools like Batfish and Suzieq greatly simplify writing and maintaining automated tests.”
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“The point of this article is not that OSPF is better than BGP, but that it does work in very large size Clos networks.”
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“Unfortunately, VMware never mastered the art of using simple transport networks, they love to push the complexity onto others (and then blame them for being overly complex)”
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Ghost in the Ethernet optic
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“With cost being the primary driver for all things, increased costs for stupid switching tricks have now given way to better software development.
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”…bringing down the BGP transport session every time you change AFI/SAFI set on that session unless your vendor implemented Multisession BGP which opens a new transport session for every AFI/SAFI combination."
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“End-to-end congestion control methods, such as TCP and QUIC, are the main ways of avoiding congestion on the Internet.. we describe a fundamental limitation of these methods — they cannot avoid latency spikes.”
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"‘Latency’ is a poor measure of responsiveness, since it can be hard for the general public to understand. Instead, we create the term “Responsiveness under working conditions” to make it clear that we are measuring all, not just idle, conditions, and use “round-trips per minute” as the metric."