What is SD WAN?
Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) –sometimes known as SD-WAN and occasionally as Hybrid WAN– is evidently still the flavor of the month in Silicon Valley. Much as it seemed that anything with the […]
Networking
Speaking Geek at Solarwinds’ Thwack Community
Thwack! For the new few months in addition to posting here, I’ll be making some blog posts over on Solarwinds‘ Thwack Community in their “Geek Speak” blogs, on the general topic of network management. I won’t […]
Operational Annoyances: Validating SSL VIPs
In the last two posts I described tools to validate the required intermediate SSL certificate chain for a given server certificate, and to validate that the private key and server certificate are a match. Once […]
Operational Annoyances: SSL Certificates and Keys
You’re asked to update the SSL certificate for movingpackets.net on a load balancer. The requestor (me, in this case) gives you the certificate file. I don’t need to give you the intermediate certificate bundle because […]
Operational Annoyances: SSL Intermediate Certificates
You’re asked to update the SSL certificate for movingpackets.net on a load balancer. The requestor (me, I suppose) gives you the certificate, the private key and passphrase, and the intermediate bundle file provided by the […]
Multi-datacenter Firewall Automation – Part 2
In my last post on firewall automation, I described the logical model I decided to use in order that I might be able to compute the path between endpoints using the Dijkstra shortest path algorithm. […]