Episode 18 – Real World Performance Issues

We returned to record our seventeenth episode on Sunday April 23, 2017. Interesting News and Events Extreme Networks buys Brocade Data Center BU for $55 Million USD The Network Collective – Episode 1 by Jordan Martin, Phil Gervasi and Eyvonne Sharp Networking Field Day 15 – YouTube Playlist Vendor Specifications vs Real World Performance Did you ever purchased a HW and find out the Hard way that the box is not performing in your environment who it was described in the datasheets Routers and Switches can be measured and tested in the Lab Packet sizes L2 vs L3 traffic watch out for all the features that will degrade the performance ARP packets can consume a lot of CPU utilization? Miimon – NIC teaming in Linux Firewalls Real world traffic is different single flow can effect the complete system NGFW features Virtual vs Physical Hardware Limitations of the physical HW Performance penalties and with virtualization What tools are you using? Google is perhaps one of the biggest tools in a network engineer’s toolset. Google is invaluable in searching for solutions to a problem or issue or simply searching for the documentation or an example configuration. Cheers!