Ivan Pepelnjak

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Traditional network devices used a single (active or running) configuration, with a snapshot of it stored in permanent memory (startup configuration). The active configuration was modified with every configuration command, making it a perfect recipe for disaster in the days of in-band configuration 1 .

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Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?

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One of my readers asked for my opinion about the provocative “It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter” article by prof. John Ousterhout. I started reading it, found too many things that didn’t make sense, and decided to ignore it as another attempt of a proverbial physicist solving hard problems in someone else’s…