Heavy Networking 564: Seven Engineers At The Community Roundtable

Today’s Heavy Networking episode is a grab bag of topics delivered in our community roundtable format. We’ve brought in folks from our public Slack channel who wanted to talk about networking stuff that’s on their mind. (Go to packetpushers.net.slack, read the rules, and sign up if you want to join the group). Today’s grab bag of ideas will lay bare for all to see the soul of networkers the world over, and we’re gonna talk through these oversized packets with no fragmentation allowed and the evil bit on, crammed right into your ears, and you can’t stop us. It’s happening. It’s happening right now. Joining us around the community round table are Justin Seabrook-Rocha, a Network Engineering Manager; Ken Celenza, the Managing Director at NetworkToCode; Nick Buraglio, a Planning and Architecture Engineer; Michael Schipp, a Pre-sales Engineer; and Steve Puluka, an IP Architect at DQE Communications. We’ll see how far we get in our discussion today, but topics up on the virtual whiteboard include: * IPv6 only * Firewall rule lifecycle management * Keeping up as a manager * Evaluating tech that’s being hyped * Whitebox switching * Smart NICs Show Links: @xenith – Justin Seabrook-Rocha on Twitter @itdependsnet – Ken Celenza on Twitter @forwardingplane – Nick Buraglio on Twitter ForwardingPlane.net – Nick’s blog @maschipp – Michael Schipp on Twitter @spuluka – Steve Puluka on Twitter Puluka.com – Steve’s blog Packet Pushers Slack Channel