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"What's your IPv6 strategy?"
IPv6

"What's your IPv6 strategy?"

For many in enterprise networking, IPv6 is just a distant memory of a tedious mandatory training a few years back. Weird addresses, over-eager trainer, stories about v6 adoption that never

  • joe neville
joe neville 1 Oct 2019 • 3 min read
IPv6 SLAAC Host OS Address Allocation
IPv6

IPv6 SLAAC Host OS Address Allocation

While rebuilding my v6 lab with a variety different host OS, I found that there is no single approach to address generation in IPv6 SLAAC networks. I've recorded my findings

  • joe neville
joe neville 7 Aug 2019 • 7 min read
Why I'm telling network engineers to learn Python
network automation

Why I'm telling network engineers to learn Python

During a wet autumnal walk, I was explaining to my girlfriend about my recent presentations. I've been doing my 'Getting Started with Python' talk at Aruba Airheads meet-ups. I recorded

  • joe neville
joe neville 3 Dec 2018 • 6 min read
Android does not support DHCPv6 and Google 'Won't Fix' that
IPv6

Android does not support DHCPv6 and Google 'Won't Fix' that

Since 2012 there has been a ticket open on Google's public 'Issue Tracker' requesting Android support DHCPv6. On 6th November the status of the issue was changed to 'Won't Fix

  • joe neville
joe neville 13 Nov 2018 • 8 min read
Windows for Network Automation?
network automation

Windows for Network Automation?

The OS landscape is changing and, yes, you can learn and run network automation tools on Windows. After a hot, dry June day in Richmond I boarded an empty train.

  • joe neville
joe neville 26 Sep 2018 • 4 min read
python

Workshop Epilogue 2

Networkers and Coding Q & A In Part One of this blog I mentioned that I liked to start the second day of the workshop a little differently. The workshop itself was aimed very much at network engineers but the second day was all

  • joe neville
joe neville 20 Aug 2018 • 6 min read
ArubaOS-CX Workshop Epilogue
network automation

ArubaOS-CX Workshop Epilogue

12 sessions, 6 countries, 4 months After twelve sessions across six countries over four months, last week we presented the final ArubaOS-CX EMEA workshop in Dubai. The objective of the

  • joe neville
joe neville 20 Jul 2018 • 3 min read

Building an Ansible Sandpit using Vagrant

Vagrant SSH connections are built for host to box, not box to box. In this post I detail how to fix this with an aim to build an Ansible sandpit. Ansible and Vagrant Before I start using Ansible with network devices, I thought I

  • joe neville
joe neville 7 Apr 2018 • 3 min read

Ansible Install: Ubuntu vs. PIP vs Fedora

Aim I'm trying to write a simple 'how to' for the build of an Ansible 'sandpit' environment that my networking colleague can follow. I want this to have minimal demands in terms of prior knowledge about linux, git and OS package management. What's the

  • joe neville
joe neville 9 Mar 2018 • 4 min read
python

My Video Adventures across the ArubaOS-CX Spectrum

Hungry Horace For the uninitiated, ArubaOS-CX is a new networking OS, running on Aruba's 84/830xx campus core switches. I've been playing around with the OS for a while now. The headline is 'network OS with auto-generated REST API'. No clunky abstraction layer, no

  • joe neville
joe neville 6 Mar 2018 • 1 min read
Python Reading List
python

Python Reading List

My Python recommended reading list.

  • joe neville
joe neville 2 Mar 2018 • 3 min read

The internet is a series of (you)tubes

As I delve further in python and network automation I've made a couple of series focusing on python and the ArubaOS-Switch API. Python and REST APIs This series is comprised of four videos. From building an work environment, performing a GET, a POST and

  • joe neville
joe neville 22 Sep 2017 • 1 min read
networking

IPv6 Security Workshop (plus free sandwiches)

A free workshop in London on IPv6 Security, hosted by the UK IPv6 Council? I'm in. This is a write-up of the recent IPv6 Security Workshop held at the BT Centre, London, by the UK IPv6 Council. My buy-in In my previous role as

  • joe neville
joe neville 26 Jul 2017 • 6 min read
Moving Beyond CLI
network automation

Moving Beyond CLI

Hello, here's a link to a youtube video that I made this week. It is a screen-capture of a preso that I gave at Aruba Atmosphere in Disneyland Paris: One

  • joe neville
joe neville 30 Jun 2017 • 1 min read
python

Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 2

This is a very subjective piece about what worked for me when I first tried my hand at getting into Python as a networking chap. It comes with the disclaimer that your experience may be wildly different. Commit Firstly, and most importantly, commit to

  • joe neville
joe neville 23 Jun 2017 • 8 min read
Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 1
python

Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 1

No, you are not mistaken, it is 2017 and I'm writing this blog about networking types learning python. I understand that this may all sound a little 2012 but I

  • joe neville
joe neville 7 Jun 2017 • 5 min read

Adventures in youtube

At this point I haven't update this blog for about 6 months and this post stands as a 'What I've been up to' report. "Pass me my branded baseball cap!" AKA corporate blogging Over the summer I did a bit of corporate

  • joe neville
joe neville 1 Nov 2016 • 3 min read
Openswitch, Docker & Linux Networking - Part 2: Build a Network

Openswitch, Docker & Linux Networking - Part 2: Build a Network

EDIT 01Nov2016 It looks like openswitch is going through a reboot of sorts, hard, soft, whatever, I'm not sure how relevant this information is anymore. I'll leave it up as

  • joe neville
joe neville 21 Apr 2016 • 13 min read
Openswitch, Docker & Linux Networking - Part 1: Build an image

Openswitch, Docker & Linux Networking - Part 1: Build an image

EDIT 01Nov2016 It looks like openswitch is going through a reboot of sorts, hard, soft, whatever, I'm not sure how relevant this information is anymore. I'll leave it up as

  • joe neville
joe neville 21 Apr 2016 • 6 min read

Lab on a Laptop - Building a VXLAN Leaf Spine Network with HPE VSRs

Building virtual labs is quick, easy and no one complains about your cabling. Throughout my career, until very recently, I always had access to a lab of some kind, so when I heard others complaining about lack access to kit I would smile and

  • joe neville
joe neville 23 Feb 2016 • 7 min read
My CCIE story

My CCIE story

"You are Number 19080" "I am not a number..." This autumn I went through the CCIE recert process again for the fourth time. In the interests

  • joe neville
joe neville 22 Dec 2015 • 4 min read
Cumulus VX with Vagrant
cumulusvx

Cumulus VX with Vagrant

In this blog post I explain how to build a test environment to get hands-on experience with Cumulus VX, Vagrant and a touch of shell scripting. Rise of the Rocket

  • joe neville
joe neville 14 Sep 2015 • 9 min read
Zero Touch Part 2 - Chaining VPNs, Routing & Security

Zero Touch Part 2 - Chaining VPNs, Routing & Security

In Part 1 of my Zero Touch write-up I focused on the basics; enabling automatic configuration of a factory-default router, but that is just part of the story. Pushing config

  • joe neville
joe neville 13 Aug 2015 • 7 min read

Zero Touch Part 1 - HP IMC

Energetic 90s bard, MC Hammer, once made the boastful claim; 'U can't touch this.' That's not just the hook of a pop-rap jam, it is an actual quote from a network engineer during a Proof of Concept that I ran recently. The 'this'

  • joe neville
joe neville 15 Jul 2015 • 5 min read

hello world

welcome etc I'm Joe Neville Yet another networker jumping on the DevOps bandwagon. Networking since 2001 I've done Ops, I've done pre-sales, I'm #19080. I hate pointless .ppt and being told it is all about business outcomes (we get it, money > everything else)

  • joe neville
joe neville 2 Jul 2015 • 1 min read
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