Mangocon Network Topics
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At the potential of working with Mangocon, what would be some good topics you guys would like to see for the Networking topic?
Keep in mind that these are 1 hour sessions if I understand correctly.
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- VLAN implementation (planning, implementing, and scenarios that necessitate their use)
- Managing VoIP traffic (QoS, if/when to VLAN, hosted or local, etc...)
- VPNs (types, differences, and use cases)
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Network monitoring and troubleshooting would be an interesting thing to hear someone talk about.
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OK - manage QOS for VOIP traffic on a flat network (no VLANs)
Of course you can't manage the internet side of things, just the local.
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For those who are interested in Network Monitoring, do you have a preference for platform?
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@dafyre said:
For those who are interested in Network Monitoring, do you have a preference for platform?
Open source would likely be the best option, unless a vendor is willing to put something up to test with that you can work on and teach with.
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Nagios (community) and the most useful addins to make it a functional system for "most" network administrators would be really useful.
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@dafyre said:
For those who are interested in Network Monitoring, do you have a preference for platform?
What kind of monitoring?
ping tests?
bandwidth utiltization?
Logs? -
@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
For those who are interested in Network Monitoring, do you have a preference for platform?
What kind of monitoring?
ping tests?
bandwidth utiltization?
Logs?I would suggest something that could include Ping test, CPU, Memory, and Network utilization, Disk IOPS, and other Performance Metrics using scripts, or Zabbix.
Logging would be an added bonus.
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Best practices for detecting viruses through LAN traffic would be interesting. I guess that would be too specific (to wireshark) though considering we are mostly interested in open source and that's the best in town afaik
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@wirestyle22 said:
Best practices for detecting viruses through LAN traffic would be interesting. I guess that would be too specific (to wireshark) though considering we are mostly interested in open source and that's the best in town afaik
Wireshark is best-in-class for paid solutsions as well, I think. There are several commercial solutions that integrated nicely with it.
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@Dashrender said:
OK - manage QOS for VOIP traffic on a flat network (no VLANs)
Of course you can't manage the internet side of things, just the local.
What about WAN optimization/acceleration stuff?
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@wirestyle22 said:
@Dashrender said:
OK - manage QOS for VOIP traffic on a flat network (no VLANs)
Of course you can't manage the internet side of things, just the local.
What about WAN optimization/acceleration stuff?
I don't have a lot of experience with stuff like that, but it would be a good topic.
