Thoughts from the clouds
Amongst the many Ignite announcements this year, my favourite is the new Azure Route Server, in public preview now, since it has the potential to dramatically change how networks are built in Azure. If you are thinking “here he comes with his BGP thing again”… You are right! Let me explain: In public cloud there … Continue reading Azure Route Server: super powers for your Network Virtual Appliance
NOTE: the good old Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) has been deprecated, and its replacement is the Catalyst 8000v. However, I have not been able to make the Cat8Kv work in Azure: the reload command (required to activate its license) apparently always takes a manual confirmation, and some of the IPsec policies I used to … Continue reading BGP Azure Lab Maker
After reading the title above, you might be wondering why the heck you would want to do such a thing. The reason in my particular case is to connect an Azure Stack installation to an Azure ExpressRoute circuit, since Azure Stack needs some kind of connectivity to Azure. Azure Stack uses internally BGP and /31 … Continue reading Setting up /31 interfaces and BGP on a CentOS machine
