Network Break 241: Extreme Buys Aerohive; Sloppy BGP Plumbing Causes Route Leak

Take a Network Break! We start the show with a few Follow Ups on Li-Fi, certifications, HPE’s relationship with Aruba, and Helium/LoRa/LoRaWAN. Then it’s on to news analysis with Extreme’s acquisition of WLAN vendor Aerohive (it’s all about the cloud). We discuss a BGP route leak that caused a cascade of troubles, and opine on why Oracle is retiring Dyn’s managed DNS in favor of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Mist Systems announces a new 802.11ax AP, an edge appliance, and a new support model; Amazon adds traffic mirroring in AWS VPCs, a provider of ransomware recovery services has an interesting business model, and Greg gives a Marketing Banana award to MicroTik’s Cloud Router Switch. There’s a ton of links below if you’d like more details on anything we’ve covered. And if you want to hit us with an FU, send an email to [email protected] or talk to Drew on Twitter. Adspot: ThousandEyes ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt. Tech Bytes: Anuta Networks Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes episode with Anuta Networks. Anuta makes network automation software for multi-vendor environments. We discuss Anuta’s capabilities including low-code automation, network device configurations, compliance checks, telemetry collection, and more. The first 30 people who sign up at AnutaNetworks.com/packetpushers can get a snazzy polo shirt. Show Links: Follow Up: IEEE 802.11 (legacy mode) – Wikipedia RFC 1925 – IETF News Analysis Extreme Buys Aerohive. Not bad. – EtherealMind Aerohive Networks Has A Sales Problem – Aerohive Networks, Inc. (NYSE:HIVE) – Seeking Alpha Extreme Networks to Acquire Aerohive Networks – Extreme Networks Investor presentation – Extreme Networks How Extreme Networks’ $210M Acquisition Spree Is Set To Pay Off In $545M In New Revenue – CRN BGP filtering study resources (Was: CloudFlare issues?) – NANOG Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-...