Tagged: switch

First Steps into OpenDaylight with Brocade

It’s not often that catch-up meetings with vendors lead to anything particularly exciting but a recent one I attended with Brocade was a little different. While Brocade have had Openflow support for a very...

LLDP, Voice and Port Security on Comware 7

Getting a practical deployment of 802.1x on the wired network running Comware 7 is something that’s been on my radar for a while now. Until recently, we had a working (for our system) configuration...

Comware IRFs – A Few Lessons

Look in almost any organisation that’s been running for more than a few years and you’ll see legacy IT kit still keeping business critical services alive. There are places where IPX is still a...

Network Switch APIs (and the Lack Thereof)

Since the dawn of time on managed network switches, we’ve had the CLI. Well, that’s a bit of a lie – menu driven interfaces were the go-to option for a number of years. But...