Software Gone Wild by ipSpace.net

The first IPv6 specs were published in 1995, and yet 30 years later, we still have a pretty active IETF working group focused on “ developing guidelines for the deployment and operation of new and existing IPv6...

In March 2024, I received my first PR from an airplane: Sander Steffann was flying to South Africa to deliver an Ansible training and fixed a minor annoyance in the then-new multilab feature. Of course, I wanted to know...

When I first met David Gee, he worked for a large system integrator. A few years later, he moved to a networking vendor, worked for a few of them, then for a software vendor, and finally decided to start his own system...

It’s been over four years since I published the last Software Gone Wild episode . In the meantime, I spent most of my time developing an open-source labbing tool , so it should be no surprise that the first...

As I started Software Gone Wild podcast in June 2014, I wanted to help networking engineers grow beyond the traditional networking technologies. It’s only fitting to conclude this project almost seven years and...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today’s podcast. In today’s evolving landscape of whitebox, brightbox, and software routing, a small but incredibly comprehensive routing...

Remember my rant how “ fail fast, fail often sounds great in a VC pitch deck, and sucks when you have to deal with its results ”? Streaming telemetry is no exception to this rule, and Avi Freedman (CEO of...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today’s podcast. In the original days of this podcast, there were heavy, deep discussions about this new protocol called “OpenFlow”. Like many...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today’s podcast. As we all know, BGP runs the networked world. It is a protocol that has existed and operated in the vast expanse of the...

In early May 2020 I wrote a blog post introducing SuzieQ , a network observability platform Dinesh Dutt worked on for the last few years. If that blog post made you look for more details, you might like the Episode 111...

A while ago we discussed a software-focused view of Network Interface Cards (NICs) with Luke Gorrie, and a hardware-focused view of them with Or Gerlitz (Mellanox), Andy Gospodarek (Broadcom) and Jiri Pirko (Mellanox)...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today’s podcast. As private overlays are becoming more and more prevalent and as SD-WAN systems and technologies advance, it remains critical...

The last Software Gone Wild podcast recorded in 2019 focused on advances in Linux networking - in particular on interesting stuff presented at NetDev 0x13 conference in Prague. The guests (in alphabetical first name...

No, we were not talking about IP fabrics in general - IP Fabric is a network management software (oops, network assurance platform ) Gian Paolo discovered a while ago and thoroughly tested in the meantime. He was kind...

Everyone is talking about FRRouting suite these days, while hidden somewhere in the background OpenBGPD has been making continuous progress for years. Interestingly, OpenBGPD project was started for the same reason FRR...