Posts by Russ

New material at Rule 11 Academy this week:

Understanding Intra-AS BGP
Suboptimal BGP Route Reflection Lab

I’ve done a good bit of BGP to this point; I’m probably going to work on link state or some other part of the outline next week. I’m trying to make certain everyone who signs up for the first time gets the first six months for free; the membership plugin is being a bit squirrely, so you might see accounts expired, etc. I’m fixing these as I see them.

The 29th of May, in 7 days, I’m teaching a four-hour webinar/class on Safari Books Online:

From technologists to business leaders, few have a “big picture” understanding of how the Internet is put together. Often this is because the Internet is composed of so many different systems, each of which is deeply complex, so it is easy to specialize in “one part of the Internet,” and it is hard to learn about the other parts without diving into many details. This class de-mystifies the overall structure and “moving parts” of the global Internet. The class begins with a user connecting to a web site, and the process of translating the name of the service the user is seeking to a logical location (a server) where the service is actually located. From there, the path of the packets between the user and the server is traced, exposing each of the different kinds of providers that carry the packet along the way.

This class isn’t just for network engineers, it’s for anyone interested in how the Internet works. You don’t need prior network engineering experience or knowledge to understand the content–so feel free to forward along to anyone you think might be interested, even managers (!) and coders.

Join me by registering here.