March 2007 was clearly the “local usernames” month. I wrote about Configuring local authentication with AAA, One-time passwords on Cisco routers, Local usernames with no password and Enhanced password security for local usernames.
March 2009 had a mixture of DSL and BGP topics. DSL topics included ADSL overhead and Rate-limiting inbound traffic; BGP ones AS-path prepending: technical details, BGP Local-AS feature: the basics and EBGP load balancing with a multihop EBGP session.
Most popular posts from March 2007
- Stop extended ping or traceroute command
- Configure local authentication with AAA
- One-time passwords on Cisco routers
- EIGRP goodbye message
- One-line extended ping
- Executing a command upon user login
- EIGRP load balancing based on interface load
- Running Tcl procedures from command line
- MPLS VPN half-duplex VRF works only on virtual template interface
- Can you disable the reload command?
- Enhanced password security for local usernames
- Where does the Tcl output go?
Most popular posts from March 2009
- Blocking rogue DHCP servers
- Rate-limiting inbound traffic on DSL
- Line rate and bit rate
- ADSL overhead
- Last-resort password recovery
- Bandwidth allocation with class-based weighted fair queuing (CB-WFQ)
- Time-based IOS actions
- EBGP load balancing with a multihop EBGP session
- BGP Local-AS feature: the basics
- Which is the “best” PE-CE routing protocol?
- AS-path prepending: technical details
- Recovering from expired one-time username
- Generating syslog messages from Tcl
- Generating layer-2 broadcast from a regular IP packet
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The history review gives me hope that we will in fact see the decoupling of the network OS from the hardware. If we are blabbing about L2TP v23 ten years from now I am quitting the industry :)
ReplyDeleteNeat thing is look at how little difference from the posts in '07 to '09. Compare that to '09 to '12. It is a shift away from how do we make the operators life easier with tools to how do we consolidate OpEx in all IT verticals today.
Smells like progress and change, which is likely why there are many in the "It's good enough camp". In the Marines we used to have a joke when we half assed something, "not to good but good enough". At some point relying on vendors to drive change along with Transistors, ASICs, CPUs etc will not be "good enough".
Great post. I think it really captures how fast things are and will be moving over the next 5 years.
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I'm afraid the difference between 07-to-09 versus 09-to-12 has more to do with a major shift in my focus ... although we certainly live in interesting times 8-)
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