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  • 18 min read

Basic IXP Lab with OpenBGPd Route Server

Almost every Internet eXchange Point (IXP) leverages a Router Server (RS) to simplify peering between members of the exchange who exercise an open policy peering. A Route Server is a software component connected to the IXP network which acts as a BGP speaker with whom members peer to receive BGP updates from each other.

Nowadays, IXPs predominantly use BIRD routing daemon as a Route Server, but for diversity and sustainability reasons Route Server Support Foundation initiated a program to introduce other software solutions, like OpenBGPd, to the IXP market.

While OpenBGPd is not a new kid on the block of software BGP implementations, it is less known in the IXP domain (compared to BIRD). Lots of IXPs are interested in introducing OpenBGPd as a second Route Server in their networks and this lab opens the doors to explore "OpenBGPd as a Route Server" use case.

  • 1 min read

Design, Deploy, And Operate With Nokia Data Center Fabric Solution

Packet Pushers

In this Heavy Networking piece we’re talking data center operations and automation. Data centers aren’t immune from the pressures being felt across the IT organization: things like enabling new applications and services more quickly, getting better visibility to monitor performance and speed up troubleshooting, and tying into new capabilities that come from automation, APIs, containers, and microservices.

Today’s sponsor, Nokia, has been thinking about these pressures, and is here to talk about its fabric-based approach to the data center. That approach includes its SR Linux network OS, its Fabric Services System intent-based platform, its NetOps Development Kit, or NDK, and how all this ties together to address your operational life cycle across Day zero, Day 1, Day Two, and beyond.

Participants: Bruce Wallis

  • 4 min read

Configuration backup with Event Handler

The year is 2023. You wake up to a subtle 'ping' from your phone 📱, signifying there is a message from someone important. Still half asleep you reach out and grab it, glancing at the screen. It says: "The network went out - you're fired!"

Rollback to the present day, where I can confidentially share that this is exactly the kind of scenario that our engineers had in mind when they designed the new Event Handler feature for SR Linux. Because you can never have enough flexibility to add just the right amount of automation, configuring things properly and - critically - keeping track of changes to the configuration (and whichever #!$!! person made them)

  • 7 min read

SR Linux Blog Launch

Openness, extensibility, innovation and community focus make a large part of the Nokia SR Linux core. Mix it up with our engineering background and you get a resource where we share technical content in the engineers-to-engineers fashion.

Today we would like to take it one step further and augment the learn.srlinux.dev portal with a community blog section where Nokia engineers and our community members can post content relevant to modern network technologies.

This blog post explains how to contribute a blog article to our portal and what visual candies you can use to make your post look awesome.

  • 1 min read

DevOps Approaches for Enhanced NetOps with Nokia Data Center Fabric Solution

NFD 29

This presentation provides a quick review and update of the Nokia Data Center Fabric solution, and a review of how DevOps approaches may be adapted for data center fabric NetOps. This is followed by a demo featuring how Nokia SR Linux supports network application warm restart.

Participants: Bruce Wallis

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Develop Custom Network Apps With Nokia’s SR Linux NDK

Packet Pushers

In this Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Nokia about its SR Linux network OS. More specifically, because SR Linux is open, customers can write homegrown applications to solve specific problems with the network OS using Nokia’s NetOps Development Kit (NDK).

The NDK provides documentation and examples to help you write apps quickly and easily. The NDK supports industry standards including YANG, gRPC, and gNMI. Is this a good idea? Do customers actually do this?

Participants: Jon Lundstrom