Hedge 301: SONiC

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Join us as we gather around the hedge,
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where we dig into technology, business, and culture
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with the finest minds in computer networking.
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Well, hello, Audrey.
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Audrey joins us today from Austin, Texas.
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Yeah. Audrey says hi. Audrey's the plant.
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I actually Hey, Walter.
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I I listened to,
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a few days ago just to get oriented
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to your,
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your show and heard you talking about Audrey.
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Okay. First came up talking about Little Shop
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of Horrors or what's the name of that
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plant? And I was, it's Audrey. It's Audrey.
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Yes. Well, there you go.
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Alright.
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So
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and that other voice you hear in the
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background, how are you doing, Tom, before I
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do that? I'm great, Russ. You're great. Awesome.
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And that other voice you hear in the
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background, you probably recognize it.
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I probably don't need to even say,
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it's Jeff Doyle.
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Jeff is guys.
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Jeff is so well known. He needs no
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introduction.
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Is that the way is that the way
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it works? I'm not sure. I'm not sure
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whether that's
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how true that is, but,
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it's it's really nice to actually be a
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guest.
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Russ, you've been the guest on our podcast.
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Mine and Jeff Tensor is, between two nerds
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podcast so many times
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that,
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it's it might be a little disoriented
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to me because I'm used to asking you
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questions and they just shut it out, shutting
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up and letting you talk. So,
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you know, you'll you'll have to kinda pull
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me back into where I'm what I'm supposed
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to be doing if if I start asking
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you questions. And Oh, that's it's okay. That's
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okay. Just ask just ask Tom and Audrey.
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There you go. Tom.
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Yes. Tom.
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Audrey has Audrey has the answers here. Audrey
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has the answers here. Alright. So today, we're
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talking about Sonic. So maybe we start with
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an introduction of what Sonic is. I'll start
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by saying, it's not new. This is really,
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really old.
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I mean, I don't say in the IT
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world. I mean, I've been around Sonic since
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LinkedIn
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or before LinkedIn, and I don't actually
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remember what you said. Old,
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in in, Internet development terms, that is. Right.
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Yeah. That's right. Yeah. It it, came about
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in 2016.
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So
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that's what, ten years ago. So that yeah.
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That's pretty old. That's pretty old in Internet
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terms. That's right. So
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what is Sonic, Jeff? What are we what
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are we trying to accomplish? What's our goal?
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Yeah. Well, it's all about a hedgehog.
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And,
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I that's my standard little joke for for
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anybody that wants to explore Sonic, you have
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to be kind of careful when you Google
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the word Sonic. Otherwise, you just,
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get a bunch of responses about an online
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game involving a hedgehog.
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But, you have to say Sonic operating system.
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But Sonic is,
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is, software for open networking in the cloud.
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That's the acronym.
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And,
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this was,
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as
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the name implies,
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it's open software.
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It's an open operating system
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and it was developed
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by Microsoft, just I'm a I'm a history
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buff so I always have to go into
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the history,
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developed by Microsoft, specifically
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their Azure team,
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as I mentioned a while ago in 2016,
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because
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they were
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they had these immensely complex,
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data centers
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and they were having a hard time managing
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it, especially
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for multi vendor and and such, you know,
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having to manage,
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with different operating systems and they wanted sort
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of one operating system to rule them all.
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out came Sonic and and,
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it it was pretty crude in the beginning.
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And especially after it it was released into
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the wild,
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which happened in 2022,
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I believe, if my memory is right. And
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that's really the significant part of the history
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of Sonic
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was,
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was Microsoft released it,
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to the OCP,
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open compute project.
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And, and it's been
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been, open software ever since then, open for
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people to develop, open for people to download
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and use.
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But the
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the major major concept
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of Sonic
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that it interfaces
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with any hardware.
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So you can, your
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as is as you should be able to
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do, your hardware infrastructure
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should become an abstraction
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to your operating system.
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So, you know, there's there's
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an agnostic,
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view towards what hardware you're running in. And,
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you know, Sonic will run on,
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broad
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all kinds of ASICs. Broadcom, Marvel,
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Cavium,
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for gosh. There's others.
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So so the
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yeah. You know, VM. Yeah. And originally Barefoot
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as well because there was a p four
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when Barefoot was around as a chipset.
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So but I think the thing that people
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need to understand is this is not a
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replacement for Linux.
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This is something that lays on top of
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Linux
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that essentially
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and this is gonna be rather, like,
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extremely
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oversimplified,
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but it kind of plays the role of
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DirectX
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or a driver system
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that allows you to communicate
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to
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the forwarding engine chipsets that you might put
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in a router or a switch.
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Yeah. Like, it's not it's not precisely a
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driver. That's not what it is. But if
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you wanna put it slot it in your
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head someplace in the ecosystem,
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you can think of it as something like
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DirectX or something like that. There's like a
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language, an API, an interface,
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a set of software, and that software figures
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out how to talk to the chipset that
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you wanna talk to. Now you can fix
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all that, Jeff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean,
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what you say is true. I was sort
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of
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processing some of it as as you explained
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it, you know, but absolutely. It's not a
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replacement for for Linux.
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Sonic is built on it runs on top
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of Linux, Debian Linux to be specific.
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And, it's written in c,
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c plus c plus plus, I believe.
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Different parts are c and different parts of
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c plus plus Yeah. Yeah.
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and and maybe we'll get into that in
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a bit.
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but yeah, it's it,
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the real secret sauce,
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in my opinion, of of Sonic. And I'm
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sort of looking at it too late,
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two directions,
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both looking down to the hardware, to the
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ASICs in particular, and then looking up to,
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oh, what does it interface with? How do
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you use it?
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Looking down and the reason it is hardware
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agnostic and runs in all these different chips
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yet chip chipsets that I mentioned,
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is a component,
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called the sync d container,
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within Sonic. And and oh, that's a piece
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early on I should have mentioned.
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A key part of the Sonic architecture
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is that it's all built on Docker containers.
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So it's it's it's highly modular.
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Advantages there is, you know,
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you've heard that song and dance for for
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years on, you know, what's what's important about
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containers
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is you could take one out of service,
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you know, or it could fail or whatever,
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you know, whatever that functional container is, and
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it doesn't bring the whole system down.
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That's not a new concept at all. I
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mean, we've been building modular operating systems for
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routers for,
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since the Well the nineties. Yeah.
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But most of the commercial ones are not.
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Most of the commercial ones at the time
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Sonic came out,
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the idea of a modular network operating system
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was kind of
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I mean, it wasn't new, but it wasn't
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widely deployed. Like, you didn't have EVO. You
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didn't have
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CRS operating system stuff
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out there. It was Cisco iOS classic, which
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is monolithic. It was Junos,
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which was monolithic. It was a I I
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Junos, that was that was actually the I
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mean, I was running around back at the
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turn of the century,
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when I was when I was with Juniper,
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and Juniper was a start up,
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kinda knocking,
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Cisco IOS because they were very monolithic.
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with modularity in mind. And,
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but,
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you know, how much modularity
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is open to question, and it was still
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hardware specific.
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Oh, and maybe a,
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an interesting maybe sonic relevant piece that,
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that's a bit of trivia,
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early on because I was I there's still
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a little, Junos,
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Kool Aid floating around in my veins.
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I actually,
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was very vocal internally
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at Juniper
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when it was still a little small startup
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that, you know, this this operating system is
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great, we should be selling just the operating
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system and adapt it to whatever
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white box you want. And of course they
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were very hardware
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oriented at the time and, you know, decided
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I was an idiot and, and,
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that went nowhere. But,
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but I thought it was a good idea,
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and here we are talking about Sonic all
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But, anyway, getting back to,
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the the whole idea of this sync d
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container,
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I sort of went off on a tangent
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there, the secret sauce within that is an
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API
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called the set, software abstraction interface, s a
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I.
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And anytime you talk about Sonic, you you
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have to talk about the s a s
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a I. And that's what actually talks to,
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the ASIC SDK
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for whatever,
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hardware you're
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you're, talking to.
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And, so that's your interface right there and
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that becomes where the you get the hardware
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abstraction,
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coming from is is,
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is with
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that interface between the SAI
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and the, ASIC
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SDK.
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But
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that's at the lower end. At the upper
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end,
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the other piece to really be aware of
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with Sonic is that it has a CLI.
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You can manage
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individual devices,
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using a CLI, but it's not designed for
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that. It's designed for automation.
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And it's designed, you know, for your entire
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infrastructure to be,
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you know, anytime you start talking about automation,
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you hear those buzzwords, you know, to to
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be,
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managed as a holistic
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entity.
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You know, so so you've got
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a management container,
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that has a rest server in it, and
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you you
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can manage Sonic,
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through this rest server. You can you can
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directly manage, the databases,
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in,
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in the
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Redis server.
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Kind of the brains of Sonic is is
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a,
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is a database container that's built around Redis.
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And,
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yeah, it's
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built for automation.
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It's built for highly complex,
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data centers,
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and,
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and, it is something that there's more and
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more interest coming out
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about Sonic for enterprises, and I think there's
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a lot of business opportunity there.
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Yeah. It's interesting.
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When I first started encountering Sonic, a lot
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of the problems we had were around
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the performance
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of pulling
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routes
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out of the routing table and into
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the into the the ASIC
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via that,
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via SciDB and all of the stuff that
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goes on in there. It was a rather
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complex process.
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And I don't know. Has that changed a
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lot, Tom?
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Or Jeff, do you know? Have there been
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has there been a lot of work in
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that space?
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I can't imagine there wouldn't be.
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There's been some people have people have tried
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to address it. I don't know
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that Sonic is used anywhere.
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Well, I shouldn't say I don't know that
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Sonic is used,
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on hardware in places where route count is
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really a critical thing. Like, I don't I
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don't personally know of any deployments where we're
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putting Internet scale,
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routes into a, into a sonic box. But,
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but but I have noticed in the, in
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the community, there have been a couple of
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people talking about, hey. We gotta we gotta
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do something about this. Okay. Yeah. It's interesting.
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It's just interesting to me because that was
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now another thing that we need to realize
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about Sonic is it's not a routing stack.
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There's no routing stack
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in integral to Sonic.
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You run BRS or you run FR routing.
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And
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interestingly enough,
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because
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from what I remember, Sonic is very user
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space oriented,
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they decided not to pull routes off of
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NetLinks or off I'm sorry, off of the
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kernel.
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Is that still true? It's still pulled off
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of
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the FPM, like, for Zebra
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or whatever you're using,
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whether it's BERT or FR routing or whatever.
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They're
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like, it's a different
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it's a different route pull than from the
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kernel.
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Yeah. It's, you know, if if you're running
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BGP,
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you know, there's a BGP container,
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and and that's basically,
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Zebra based.
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You know? And you can manage there's there's
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actually,
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a,
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different mode, two different modes you can run
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Sonic in. You can run it in a
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unified mode, which you really should be doing
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in a production network,
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and but you could also run it in,
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split mode where you're managing all of your
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routes via f r r,
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and,
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you know, you you somewhat defeat the purpose
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of Sonic by doing that, but but there's
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also,
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some rash
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some rationale behind it. There's there's, some,
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if you're
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running some complex features that are not
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supported directly,
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with
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with Sonic yet, you know, there that you
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that's in zebra.
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You you know, you may need to run-in
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split
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mode. But, I I disagree I disagree with
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that just a little bit. I think,
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it's a configuration.
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It's it's a con configuration is what's affected
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there, not route download, not any data plan.
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And so really, it's how do you wanna
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configure it? Do you wanna do it with
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sonic CLI commands or do you wanna do
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it with an fr.com?
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And like you mentioned, Jeff, it's kind of,
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do you want access to features that are
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newer in frr? Yeah. Or, you know, if
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it's been in there a while and it's
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a basic basic thing,
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then it'll be it'll be there. But there's
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but there's an integration cost. Right? They have
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someone has to go into Sonic and and
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add the FRR feature into the configuration
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language of Sonic.
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So Mhmm. I I I think there I
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don't it doesn't there's no performance penalty. There's
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no, it's just how, you know, how integrated
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do you wanna be. And if you need
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even one feature that FRR has that Sonic
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hasn't yet integrated, then you actually are forced
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into split mode.
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But
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yeah.
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Yeah.
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I I I agree with that, and,
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I think
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where I was coming from is is, you
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know, the you see a lot of sonic
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advocates saying, you know, you're sort of defeating
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the purpose of,
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of sonic by, you know, going into split
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mode. But then
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you get immediately into but, you know, if
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you need these advanced features,
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then you gotta Yeah. I could I could
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see where people are coming from because you
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then you have to manage two configuration files.
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Right? That's what I was thinking. Right? You're
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you're automating two things, and you gotta make
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sure that you've
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made those two things do the right thing
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at the same time. Yeah. And you've got
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to be very careful careful with your,
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you know, you're going to want to be,
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I I never know how to pronounce the
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acronym.
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VTY shell.
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Yes. VTY shell. Yeah. And,
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you know, you're doing that with FRR, and
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and you've gotta be very careful that those
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configurations are safe because
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they could be lost on reboot and all
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that sort of thing.
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And yeah. Or v two or,
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or
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command d or the the the conf d
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thing, management d, which is all new in
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MR routing. Yeah. Which is a different way
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of doing things. Yeah.
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So,
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yeah, I think that there is more complexity
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in using split mode,
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but I also understand, like, you're just not
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gonna get. But this is something about Linux
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networking that people like, when you disaggregate,
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it's hard to remember sometimes that, like,
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up until very recently,
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if our routing, if you were in VTYSH,
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you couldn't tell
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VTYSH the ping command integrated into v VTYSH
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to use a source interface.
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Yeah. Because it's a separate piece of software.
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It's like it's completely separate. Now there's a
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PR out to fix that and make it
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where it uses the native and just transmutes
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the commands
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from v two y s h and feeds
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them into
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the native ping command that's running on the
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Linux. But you'll find this in many cases.
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Like, you cannot configure
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unicast RPF and FR routing.
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Why? Because that is a forwarding plane thing
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that has to be configured in the forwarding
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plane
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if the routing stack does not own the
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forwarding plane. Yep. And so you've gotta drop
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to the forwarding plane to do that configuration.
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And so a lot of people get like
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they're so used to the Cisco,
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iOS,
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Junos
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paradigm
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where everything is unified,
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and you do everything in one place.
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And then you get in this world where
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the routing stack is a daemon.
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The interface to the to the at forwarding
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engine is a daemon. It's running in user
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space.
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And then the forwarding plane itself is in
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a daemon. It's like or it's in it's
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in kernel space, and you're like, oh, I've
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gotta go configure my verfs in two different
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places. Well,
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you know, I I don't know what to
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tell you. There's the routing side of the
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verf,
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and there's the forwarding plane side of the
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verf.
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And some of that stuff can be done
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automatically, but
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quite frankly, a lot of times, you don't
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want it done automatically.
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You you kinda want
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there's a reason that you're doing it that
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way.
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So yeah. So I think this is a
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paradigm shift for people who are thinking about
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using Sonic. Yeah. And and and that's that's
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one of
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one of several,
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I don't wanna say roadblocks, but considerations
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if you're considering Sonic is is, you know,
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that that that it really is a different
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way of thinking
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about the network. You know, for all of
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the the advantages,
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you know, the vendor independence
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and, you know, it'd be you know, orientation
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towards,
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automation and all of that sort of thing.
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You know, one of the challenges
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is that it's kind of a kind of
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learning curve and a different way of thinking
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00:20:20,785 --> 00:20:21,265
for your frontline,
558
00:20:24,065 --> 00:20:25,765
frontline operations people.
559
00:20:26,464 --> 00:20:26,964
Yeah.
560
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,500
Which, by the way, I think is healthy.
561
00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:30,539
Personally
562
00:20:31,079 --> 00:20:32,759
Yeah. I think it's healthy. I I think
563
00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:34,599
it's a much better it's like the way
564
00:20:34,599 --> 00:20:36,679
we should have always thought about network operating
565
00:20:36,679 --> 00:20:39,480
system. Whether or not you particularly like Sonic's
566
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:39,980
implementation
567
00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:41,259
or not is beyond
568
00:20:41,605 --> 00:20:42,904
the question of operationally,
569
00:20:44,005 --> 00:20:46,085
you should really be thinking about the forwarding
570
00:20:46,085 --> 00:20:47,384
plane separate from
571
00:20:47,764 --> 00:20:50,005
the routing daemon separate for like, these are
572
00:20:50,005 --> 00:20:50,904
different things.
573
00:20:51,204 --> 00:20:51,704
Absolutely.
574
00:20:52,804 --> 00:20:53,304
Absolutely.
575
00:20:53,605 --> 00:20:55,224
They should be different in your head.
576
00:20:56,410 --> 00:20:58,490
Right? And Yes. You know, and and like
577
00:20:58,490 --> 00:21:00,590
I said early on, and the this is,
578
00:21:01,930 --> 00:21:03,150
I talked about the Juno's,
579
00:21:04,250 --> 00:21:05,930
Kool Aid still kind of flowing in my
580
00:21:05,930 --> 00:21:07,710
veins. A lot of Apstra
581
00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:10,914
Kool Aid is still, in my veins too.
582
00:21:10,914 --> 00:21:12,294
And when I was with Apstra,
583
00:21:12,835 --> 00:21:13,634
you know, we were,
584
00:21:14,035 --> 00:21:15,734
talking very much about
585
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abstracting
586
00:21:17,394 --> 00:21:18,134
the infrastructure.
587
00:21:18,994 --> 00:21:20,515
You know, the hardware layer should,
588
00:21:21,140 --> 00:21:23,140
should there should be an abstraction of that
589
00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:25,700
so that you don't really care what hardware
590
00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:26,360
is running.
591
00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:29,460
You know, it you should be able to
592
00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:31,140
change these things out and and,
593
00:21:31,860 --> 00:21:34,180
you know, still have your operating system run
594
00:21:34,180 --> 00:21:35,160
it. And and,
595
00:21:38,255 --> 00:21:40,174
now I lost my thought about what lost
596
00:21:40,174 --> 00:21:42,255
my train of thought about why I was
597
00:21:42,255 --> 00:21:43,394
even saying that,
598
00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:44,595
but
599
00:21:45,134 --> 00:21:46,575
But no. But but it's the way you
600
00:21:46,575 --> 00:21:48,335
think about being in the in the in
601
00:21:48,335 --> 00:21:49,075
your seventies.
602
00:21:49,779 --> 00:21:51,380
So but but I mean, that's what I
603
00:21:51,380 --> 00:21:53,220
think where you're getting with what you were
604
00:21:53,220 --> 00:21:54,980
driving towards there, and correct me if I'm
605
00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,980
wrong, but was that that is the way
606
00:21:56,980 --> 00:21:59,460
Sonic thinks about things. Yeah. And that's the
607
00:21:59,460 --> 00:22:00,839
shift you have to make
608
00:22:01,474 --> 00:22:02,994
if you're going to use this kind of
609
00:22:02,994 --> 00:22:05,075
thing. You is that that is what, you
610
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know, that your infrastructure
611
00:22:07,315 --> 00:22:07,815
is
612
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a holistic entity.
613
00:22:10,674 --> 00:22:12,775
You know? It's not a bunch of nodes,
614
00:22:13,715 --> 00:22:16,000
which, you know, every CLI jockey in the
615
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,160
world, you'd kind of run it that way.
616
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And, you know, and that's that was the
617
00:22:20,559 --> 00:22:21,059
driving
618
00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:24,500
reason for developing Sonic was was,
619
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:25,680
you know, you
620
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,555
as infrastructures become hugely complex,
621
00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:32,095
you and Jeff have a whole book talking
622
00:22:32,095 --> 00:22:33,315
about managing complexity.
623
00:22:35,775 --> 00:22:38,035
You know, you can't think of it
624
00:22:38,654 --> 00:22:41,259
on an individual node basis because every, you
625
00:22:41,259 --> 00:22:43,339
know, every node affects every other node or
626
00:22:43,339 --> 00:22:44,940
all that sort of thing. But,
627
00:22:45,980 --> 00:22:47,359
but, yeah, it's it's,
628
00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:52,799
you've so there there's that shift in thinking.
629
00:22:54,059 --> 00:22:56,505
The other part I actually I should mention,
630
00:22:56,505 --> 00:22:58,505
I've, I've been writing a blog. I was
631
00:22:58,505 --> 00:22:59,865
hoping to have the blog finished so I
632
00:22:59,865 --> 00:23:01,865
could shamelessly plug it on on your show,
633
00:23:01,865 --> 00:23:02,105
but,
634
00:23:03,065 --> 00:23:04,664
I haven't quite got it out yet. But,
635
00:23:05,465 --> 00:23:06,904
but Well, when you get it out, send
636
00:23:06,904 --> 00:23:08,265
me a link. We'll put it in the
637
00:23:08,265 --> 00:23:10,430
show notes. Oh, thank you. I will. Yeah.
638
00:23:10,830 --> 00:23:12,430
But, basically, it's just,
639
00:23:12,830 --> 00:23:14,289
why you should learn Sonic,
640
00:23:15,230 --> 00:23:18,269
as a network engineer. And the reasons are
641
00:23:18,269 --> 00:23:20,529
actually maybe you'll you'll never run Sonic
642
00:23:20,990 --> 00:23:21,390
in,
643
00:23:21,789 --> 00:23:23,410
in your operational network.
644
00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:25,855
But the things you need to know,
645
00:23:26,794 --> 00:23:28,714
you know, you've got to know Linux, you
646
00:23:28,714 --> 00:23:30,734
know, because you you've got to be able
647
00:23:32,154 --> 00:23:34,894
to know the least Linux commands for operating
648
00:23:34,954 --> 00:23:36,815
the thing. You've got to know Docker.
649
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,660
You've, you've got to know some programming languages
650
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:42,859
because it's it's,
651
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,720
automated. So, you know, you you wanna know
652
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,099
Python. You wanna know,
653
00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:49,180
prop baby go,
654
00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:50,299
Golang.
655
00:23:51,944 --> 00:23:54,505
What else? You need to understand APIs, rest
656
00:23:54,505 --> 00:23:55,005
APIs,
657
00:23:55,784 --> 00:23:57,244
to interact with the system.
658
00:23:57,944 --> 00:24:00,765
And all of those things extend out
659
00:24:01,144 --> 00:24:04,105
to where all of networking is going, you
660
00:24:04,105 --> 00:24:05,724
know. So whether you ever
661
00:24:06,420 --> 00:24:08,740
actually use sonic or not, you know, you're
662
00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:10,340
sort of forced to learn all those other
663
00:24:10,340 --> 00:24:11,880
things that are gonna be valuable,
664
00:24:12,820 --> 00:24:15,059
tools for you. No. I'd I'd add I'd
665
00:24:15,059 --> 00:24:16,660
add a couple to that list too, Jeff.
666
00:24:16,660 --> 00:24:19,059
I think, you know, understanding how the system
667
00:24:19,059 --> 00:24:19,960
is put together,
668
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:23,105
is is is kind of difficult in closed
669
00:24:23,105 --> 00:24:25,585
NASAs because there's not any way to really
670
00:24:25,585 --> 00:24:27,664
to really look at it. In some in
671
00:24:27,664 --> 00:24:29,424
some Nexus versions, you can get into the
672
00:24:29,424 --> 00:24:31,664
Broadcom shell and but it's not really obvious
673
00:24:31,664 --> 00:24:33,664
in most of them and very limited. But
674
00:24:33,664 --> 00:24:35,589
in but in Sonic, it's pretty much pretty
675
00:24:35,589 --> 00:24:36,950
much all open, not all of it.
676
00:24:37,509 --> 00:24:39,829
Broadcom keeps their things close to their vest,
677
00:24:39,829 --> 00:24:41,750
obviously. But one of the cool things about
678
00:24:41,750 --> 00:24:43,269
Sonic, you if you wanna see how it
679
00:24:43,269 --> 00:24:45,190
works, you can go look at the FRR
680
00:24:45,190 --> 00:24:46,869
source code. You can go look and see
681
00:24:46,869 --> 00:24:48,554
how FPM is implemented. You can go look
682
00:24:48,554 --> 00:24:50,234
in Redis and see all the routes come
683
00:24:50,234 --> 00:24:52,394
from from the kernel to here to and
684
00:24:52,394 --> 00:24:53,855
then they get pushed out into,
685
00:24:54,554 --> 00:24:56,714
into Redis. And then the whole the whole
686
00:24:56,714 --> 00:24:59,434
architecture of a system database is definitely not
687
00:24:59,434 --> 00:25:01,019
new in the industry. Definitely.
688
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,160
But but you can you can look at
689
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,319
Sonic's implementation. Oh, this is we have a
690
00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:07,400
central state database for everything, and here's how
691
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,679
it gets published, and here's how it gets
692
00:25:08,679 --> 00:25:11,000
consumed. Like, you can examine the whole the
693
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,359
whole system. And I don't know. I feel
694
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,345
like that leads to better thinking,
695
00:25:14,724 --> 00:25:17,125
in terms of network architecture. Because once you
696
00:25:17,125 --> 00:25:19,525
see how the system's built, you understand the
697
00:25:19,525 --> 00:25:21,924
component of the individual nodes, but also you
698
00:25:21,924 --> 00:25:23,944
can I think you can take that understanding
699
00:25:24,325 --> 00:25:26,085
and overlay it on top of the the
700
00:25:26,085 --> 00:25:28,650
physical topology with cables and and boxes and
701
00:25:28,650 --> 00:25:30,250
stuff? And I don't know. For me, at
702
00:25:30,250 --> 00:25:32,809
least, that's been quite the quite a quite
703
00:25:32,809 --> 00:25:34,330
a benefit to me. It is, oh, here's
704
00:25:34,330 --> 00:25:36,170
how the system works. Now I understand why
705
00:25:36,170 --> 00:25:37,769
I can't just shove all the routes over
706
00:25:37,769 --> 00:25:40,089
here because they're gonna be downstream effects, but
707
00:25:40,089 --> 00:25:42,570
I wouldn't have had that understanding without knowing
708
00:25:42,570 --> 00:25:45,505
how the system works. Yeah. Yeah. I absolutely
709
00:25:45,644 --> 00:25:48,365
agree with that. Okay. So that's what Sonic
710
00:25:48,365 --> 00:25:50,204
is. That's why we think you should use
711
00:25:50,204 --> 00:25:52,125
it. So maybe let's talk a little bit
712
00:25:52,125 --> 00:25:54,304
about where Sonic is right now,
713
00:25:54,765 --> 00:25:56,944
like, where it is in development cycle.
714
00:25:58,369 --> 00:26:00,789
Is it a big community? Is it
715
00:26:01,329 --> 00:26:02,230
well run,
716
00:26:02,609 --> 00:26:05,409
you know, meetings? Is it how how is
717
00:26:05,409 --> 00:26:07,190
that working out right now?
718
00:26:07,649 --> 00:26:09,509
It is a big
719
00:26:10,315 --> 00:26:10,815
community.
720
00:26:12,154 --> 00:26:12,815
I mentioned,
721
00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:15,275
I've actually, I've I've got a note here
722
00:26:15,275 --> 00:26:16,475
that I have to look at because I
723
00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:18,315
can't remember statistics off the top of my
724
00:26:18,315 --> 00:26:19,195
head, but,
725
00:26:20,154 --> 00:26:22,795
I mentioned that, that it was released to
726
00:26:22,795 --> 00:26:23,914
OCP in,
727
00:26:24,555 --> 00:26:27,170
2022.
728
00:26:27,170 --> 00:26:29,750
Did I say that? Yeah. 2022. Okay.
729
00:26:30,529 --> 00:26:32,849
Within two years, I've read I just pulled
730
00:26:32,849 --> 00:26:34,390
this off the internet somewhere,
731
00:26:37,009 --> 00:26:40,210
it had the community had grown to 4,000
732
00:26:40,210 --> 00:26:40,710
contributors
733
00:26:41,424 --> 00:26:42,964
across 500 organizations.
734
00:26:45,744 --> 00:26:46,244
And,
735
00:26:47,184 --> 00:26:48,244
and it is,
736
00:26:48,545 --> 00:26:49,365
being embraced
737
00:26:50,224 --> 00:26:52,384
sorry. A little bit. I'll put my notes
738
00:26:52,384 --> 00:26:54,065
down now or I start reading off the
739
00:26:54,065 --> 00:26:55,269
notes. But,
740
00:26:55,809 --> 00:26:58,129
pretty much all the major cloud providers are
741
00:26:58,129 --> 00:26:59,109
embracing Sonic.
742
00:27:00,129 --> 00:27:01,649
You know, they all see that as a
743
00:27:01,649 --> 00:27:03,429
as a great idea. And,
744
00:27:06,129 --> 00:27:08,769
so the community is growing. The the latest
745
00:27:08,849 --> 00:27:10,309
that those latest statistics,
746
00:27:10,615 --> 00:27:13,974
which was would be what circa 2024
747
00:27:13,974 --> 00:27:15,994
or so. So a couple of years old.
748
00:27:17,575 --> 00:27:18,075
And,
749
00:27:18,934 --> 00:27:19,755
it's it's
750
00:27:20,615 --> 00:27:21,974
very popular in,
751
00:27:22,855 --> 00:27:24,940
in the cloud provider space, very popular,
752
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,380
in the AI space, AI data center space.
753
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,180
Company I was working for,
754
00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:35,180
next hop.
755
00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:37,579
You know, they they're
756
00:27:38,674 --> 00:27:39,575
creating switches,
757
00:27:40,194 --> 00:27:41,335
oriented specifically
758
00:27:41,634 --> 00:27:43,335
for AI data centers,
759
00:27:44,355 --> 00:27:47,474
and sonic is the operating system they use.
760
00:27:47,714 --> 00:27:49,095
There's there's another,
761
00:27:51,009 --> 00:27:53,509
another startup out there, ARIA Networks.
762
00:27:53,890 --> 00:27:54,609
Same thing.
763
00:27:54,930 --> 00:27:57,569
They're they're making switches for AI data centers
764
00:27:57,569 --> 00:28:00,130
and Sonic is the operating system they're using.
765
00:28:00,130 --> 00:28:02,450
They're not not even trying to develop their
766
00:28:02,450 --> 00:28:03,509
own operating system.
767
00:28:04,164 --> 00:28:05,625
There are consultancies
768
00:28:05,924 --> 00:28:07,285
growing up, and I think this is a
769
00:28:07,285 --> 00:28:09,065
huge opportunity, by the way,
770
00:28:09,845 --> 00:28:10,325
that,
771
00:28:10,724 --> 00:28:11,224
that,
772
00:28:12,484 --> 00:28:15,125
has not been exploited enough. But there are
773
00:28:15,125 --> 00:28:15,625
consultancies
774
00:28:16,005 --> 00:28:16,664
out there
775
00:28:17,220 --> 00:28:18,279
just around,
776
00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:19,640
helping,
777
00:28:20,819 --> 00:28:21,319
people
778
00:28:22,099 --> 00:28:23,220
engineer Sonic.
779
00:28:23,859 --> 00:28:25,880
Because as as interest,
780
00:28:27,059 --> 00:28:27,559
starts
781
00:28:28,579 --> 00:28:30,679
filtering down from these big hyperscalers,
782
00:28:31,940 --> 00:28:32,440
to
783
00:28:32,954 --> 00:28:36,234
smaller enterprise networks that don't have the DevOps
784
00:28:36,234 --> 00:28:37,934
teams to be dealing with Sonic.
785
00:28:38,875 --> 00:28:39,855
You know, I think
786
00:28:40,794 --> 00:28:41,775
there is,
787
00:28:43,034 --> 00:28:45,434
an opportunity like there was with,
788
00:28:45,755 --> 00:28:46,255
Linux,
789
00:28:46,794 --> 00:28:48,539
for companies like Red Hat,
790
00:28:49,420 --> 00:28:50,720
to say, you know, we can
791
00:28:51,259 --> 00:28:53,660
we can sup we can become your support
792
00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:54,160
team,
793
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:55,980
for your your,
794
00:28:56,460 --> 00:28:59,820
your smaller engineering teams that maybe don't have
795
00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:00,960
the DevOps expertise
796
00:29:01,340 --> 00:29:02,160
to do this.
797
00:29:02,825 --> 00:29:03,325
And
798
00:29:03,785 --> 00:29:05,704
so that's that is that was kind of
799
00:29:05,704 --> 00:29:07,144
my next question. You see, you mentioned a
800
00:29:07,144 --> 00:29:08,045
couple of companies.
801
00:29:08,585 --> 00:29:09,404
Can you go
802
00:29:10,904 --> 00:29:13,164
to Cisco or Juniper or Nokia
803
00:29:13,865 --> 00:29:16,845
and buy boxes that run Sonic?
804
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,299
You can now.
805
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,119
I think it's interesting. I was gonna mention
806
00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:25,599
that that,
807
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:26,900
that,
808
00:29:27,679 --> 00:29:29,539
Cisco and Juniper both,
809
00:29:32,009 --> 00:29:32,509
are
810
00:29:33,434 --> 00:29:35,615
adapting sonic on some of their boxes.
811
00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:37,375
Nvidia,
812
00:29:38,954 --> 00:29:40,714
is, they've got their,
813
00:29:41,194 --> 00:29:42,335
spectrum line
814
00:29:42,794 --> 00:29:43,934
is sonic capable.
815
00:29:45,514 --> 00:29:46,014
Nokia,
816
00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:49,099
you may know better than me. I was
817
00:29:49,099 --> 00:29:52,220
actually at Nanog this week and was chatting
818
00:29:52,220 --> 00:29:54,059
with some friends at Nokia, and they just
819
00:29:54,059 --> 00:29:56,539
kind of casually mentioned that, yeah, we're doing
820
00:29:56,539 --> 00:29:57,599
some work with Sonic.
821
00:29:58,059 --> 00:30:00,315
But I We have an entire internal Sonic
822
00:30:00,315 --> 00:30:02,154
team. Okay. So we have you know? Kind
823
00:30:02,154 --> 00:30:02,974
of an understatement.
824
00:30:04,075 --> 00:30:06,734
Yeah. We have an entire internal Sonic team.
825
00:30:06,954 --> 00:30:09,034
And, like, yeah, we sell a lot of
826
00:30:09,034 --> 00:30:10,714
Sonic, apparently. Okay. Yeah. That's
827
00:30:11,990 --> 00:30:12,490
I'm
828
00:30:13,029 --> 00:30:14,789
not deeply involved in that side of the
829
00:30:14,789 --> 00:30:15,850
business right now.
830
00:30:16,390 --> 00:30:17,990
I'm not deeply I mean, I've only been
831
00:30:17,990 --> 00:30:19,990
there since November. So what am I deeply
832
00:30:19,990 --> 00:30:21,930
involved in at the moment? But
833
00:30:22,950 --> 00:30:25,029
but, anyway, that's just you know, it takes
834
00:30:25,029 --> 00:30:26,549
a long time to find your way around
835
00:30:26,549 --> 00:30:29,235
a company and figure out where you're so
836
00:30:29,555 --> 00:30:31,555
You've been there since November. You're still learning
837
00:30:31,555 --> 00:30:32,375
people's names?
838
00:30:32,914 --> 00:30:35,255
Yes. Well, for me, it's even worse.
839
00:30:36,035 --> 00:30:37,875
I used to I used to teach a
840
00:30:37,875 --> 00:30:40,115
I used to teach a worldview philosophy class
841
00:30:40,115 --> 00:30:42,349
and a theology class for high schoolers, and
842
00:30:42,349 --> 00:30:44,450
I had the same kids for four years,
843
00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:46,450
like, as they would go through high school.
844
00:30:47,230 --> 00:30:49,330
I I still don't remember their names.
845
00:30:51,549 --> 00:30:53,070
Well, I can be that way about my
846
00:30:53,070 --> 00:30:53,570
grandkids.
847
00:30:53,950 --> 00:30:55,250
Which one are you again?
848
00:30:55,630 --> 00:30:58,894
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I I don't know. Names
849
00:30:58,894 --> 00:31:00,575
are a hard thing for me. But at
850
00:31:00,575 --> 00:31:01,555
any rate yeah.
851
00:31:01,934 --> 00:31:02,434
So
852
00:31:03,215 --> 00:31:05,055
yeah. So the so there is it is
853
00:31:05,055 --> 00:31:06,674
out there. Now another question
854
00:31:07,134 --> 00:31:08,894
I would ask before we move into the
855
00:31:08,894 --> 00:31:10,735
future stuff and thinking about where Sonic is
856
00:31:10,735 --> 00:31:11,549
going is,
857
00:31:12,029 --> 00:31:13,410
can you get Sonic
858
00:31:13,789 --> 00:31:16,590
in a container for something like Container Lab?
859
00:31:16,590 --> 00:31:18,350
I've not looked, so this is just an
860
00:31:18,350 --> 00:31:20,509
honest question that I don't know. Like, I
861
00:31:20,509 --> 00:31:22,049
normally use FR routing
862
00:31:22,350 --> 00:31:25,230
in a container or SR Linux, but or
863
00:31:25,230 --> 00:31:27,250
SR whatever it is. Yeah. SR Linux.
864
00:31:28,274 --> 00:31:30,514
Yes. You can. In fact, that's that's really
865
00:31:30,514 --> 00:31:32,115
kind of the recommended way to do it.
866
00:31:32,115 --> 00:31:34,274
Container Lab, because it's oriented to,
867
00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:35,315
to,
868
00:31:35,714 --> 00:31:38,274
to contain containers. To containers. Yes.
869
00:31:38,754 --> 00:31:41,815
It's that that's the the the best matchup.
870
00:31:42,109 --> 00:31:43,390
You can actually run,
871
00:31:43,869 --> 00:31:45,009
Sonic on,
872
00:31:46,910 --> 00:31:48,269
EVE NG or,
873
00:31:48,910 --> 00:31:50,509
I I'm pretty sure you can do it
874
00:31:50,509 --> 00:31:51,950
on g n s three. I haven't tried
875
00:31:51,950 --> 00:31:52,269
it, but,
876
00:31:53,470 --> 00:31:55,549
you know, the, you can run it on
877
00:31:55,549 --> 00:31:56,049
NetBox.
878
00:31:57,775 --> 00:31:59,715
There's a lot of a lot of,
879
00:32:00,255 --> 00:32:00,755
virtualization
880
00:32:01,855 --> 00:32:04,174
platforms that you can run sonic on, but
881
00:32:04,174 --> 00:32:06,275
to get it really in its,
882
00:32:07,535 --> 00:32:08,434
native environment,
883
00:32:09,460 --> 00:32:12,200
I would highly recommend, Container Labs.
884
00:32:12,579 --> 00:32:14,259
Okay. So if people wanna learn it, they
885
00:32:14,259 --> 00:32:16,039
can just go grab Container Lab,
886
00:32:16,339 --> 00:32:19,139
and then there's a a build, I suppose,
887
00:32:19,139 --> 00:32:21,159
a nightly or weekly whatever build
888
00:32:21,644 --> 00:32:22,865
sonic in a container,
889
00:32:23,244 --> 00:32:25,505
and you specify that in Container Lab
890
00:32:25,805 --> 00:32:27,644
and off you go, and you actually build
891
00:32:27,644 --> 00:32:28,625
networks with it
892
00:32:29,085 --> 00:32:30,785
and play with it. Yeah. Okay.
893
00:32:31,164 --> 00:32:33,345
Cool. Pull pull it all off of, GitHub,
894
00:32:33,679 --> 00:32:35,119
Which is something else, by the way,
895
00:32:35,679 --> 00:32:37,839
going back to things that you will learn
896
00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:40,240
if you're working with Sonic is you need
897
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,700
to be working with Git,
898
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:42,960
and,
899
00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:46,660
which has all kinds of benefits for you.
900
00:32:47,164 --> 00:32:49,724
Yes. I'm still not a Git expert. If
901
00:32:49,724 --> 00:32:51,345
you're gonna build Sonic though,
902
00:32:51,644 --> 00:32:54,204
buckle up. This is not a read the
903
00:32:54,204 --> 00:32:56,125
read me and type in commands for an
904
00:32:56,125 --> 00:32:57,184
hour type exercise.
905
00:32:57,644 --> 00:33:00,390
Yeah. It's definitely doable, but yeah. I should
906
00:33:00,390 --> 00:33:02,330
mention that is another
907
00:33:02,789 --> 00:33:03,289
area
908
00:33:03,910 --> 00:33:05,990
of, you know, for people that are always
909
00:33:05,990 --> 00:33:07,210
looking to
910
00:33:07,509 --> 00:33:08,309
looking for,
911
00:33:08,789 --> 00:33:11,670
business opportunities. That's another area where there's huge
912
00:33:11,670 --> 00:33:13,029
opportunities right now.
913
00:33:13,430 --> 00:33:15,509
Most anybody that works with Sonic will tell
914
00:33:15,509 --> 00:33:16,994
you their documentation
915
00:33:17,694 --> 00:33:18,194
sucks.
916
00:33:19,615 --> 00:33:20,835
It's, you know,
917
00:33:21,615 --> 00:33:24,035
it's it's hard to follow, it's not linear,
918
00:33:24,815 --> 00:33:25,294
you know, you'd
919
00:33:26,174 --> 00:33:27,694
if you, you know, if you look you
920
00:33:27,694 --> 00:33:29,480
go to, you know, Cisco,
921
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:31,559
Juniper, whoever,
922
00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:34,339
and say I wanna learn that operating system,
923
00:33:34,339 --> 00:33:36,819
you know, they'll they'll to some degree, their
924
00:33:36,819 --> 00:33:39,400
documentation is set up so you can linear
925
00:33:39,619 --> 00:33:40,119
linearly
926
00:33:40,579 --> 00:33:41,319
learn it.
927
00:33:41,945 --> 00:33:43,464
Sonic is not like that at all. It's
928
00:33:43,464 --> 00:33:45,625
just, you know, here's here's a feature and
929
00:33:45,625 --> 00:33:47,545
here's the document for that. Here's the other
930
00:33:47,545 --> 00:33:49,625
feature. Here's a document for that. And and,
931
00:33:50,345 --> 00:33:51,964
it may or may not be accurate.
932
00:33:52,744 --> 00:33:54,184
It's one of the things that I've,
933
00:33:55,470 --> 00:33:58,190
learned working with people that are working closely
934
00:33:58,190 --> 00:34:00,190
with sonic and and, getting in in a
935
00:34:00,190 --> 00:34:02,109
slab as, you know, well, sometimes things don't
936
00:34:02,109 --> 00:34:03,869
work the way the document said said it
937
00:34:03,869 --> 00:34:04,369
would.
938
00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:07,470
All of that to say, there's a lot
939
00:34:07,470 --> 00:34:09,869
of opportunity out there for people that are
940
00:34:09,869 --> 00:34:10,609
doing training,
941
00:34:11,704 --> 00:34:14,364
to to build sonic training courses.
942
00:34:15,224 --> 00:34:17,465
It's opportunity for books. There's not any good
943
00:34:17,465 --> 00:34:20,045
books on Sonic out there right now. And,
944
00:34:22,425 --> 00:34:23,405
so yeah.
945
00:34:23,784 --> 00:34:25,324
Interesting. Business opportunities.
946
00:34:27,269 --> 00:34:29,449
So let's talk about the future of Sonic.
947
00:34:29,829 --> 00:34:31,769
Yeah. Where we are is where we are.
948
00:34:31,989 --> 00:34:34,010
What are the big what are the big
949
00:34:34,789 --> 00:34:35,289
pushes
950
00:34:35,829 --> 00:34:36,730
right now
951
00:34:37,269 --> 00:34:40,070
in the Sonic community? What are people trying
952
00:34:40,070 --> 00:34:40,730
to do
953
00:34:41,694 --> 00:34:42,514
to make it
954
00:34:43,694 --> 00:34:46,674
more suitable, more I don't know, more whatever
955
00:34:47,775 --> 00:34:48,275
for
956
00:34:48,815 --> 00:34:52,194
Well, two directions, I think. One is, simply
957
00:34:52,255 --> 00:34:53,474
adapting it more,
958
00:34:54,190 --> 00:34:56,910
you know, to what it was originally designed
959
00:34:56,910 --> 00:34:58,130
for, which is hyperscale,
960
00:34:58,829 --> 00:35:00,050
networks, you know,
961
00:35:00,590 --> 00:35:02,289
hyperscale clouds, AI
962
00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:05,309
AI data centers, that sort of thing, really
963
00:35:05,309 --> 00:35:06,849
huge hugely complex
964
00:35:07,469 --> 00:35:07,969
networks.
965
00:35:08,964 --> 00:35:11,684
The other movement is trying to move sonic
966
00:35:11,684 --> 00:35:12,984
down into the enterprise.
967
00:35:14,164 --> 00:35:16,244
And so I I sort of threw out
968
00:35:16,244 --> 00:35:18,085
a bunch of stuff about you know what
969
00:35:18,085 --> 00:35:19,065
needs to happen
970
00:35:19,605 --> 00:35:20,344
for that.
971
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:24,119
You know, there's a lot of challenges there.
972
00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:27,000
I what's the statistic I read just a
973
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,059
while back that,
974
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,760
if you look at enterprise data centers, there's
975
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:33,260
only
976
00:35:34,039 --> 00:35:35,420
something like 200,
977
00:35:36,855 --> 00:35:38,215
and I don't know I can't even remember
978
00:35:38,215 --> 00:35:40,215
how old the statistic is. I think it
979
00:35:40,215 --> 00:35:41,195
was Garner,
980
00:35:42,215 --> 00:35:43,735
from a couple of years ago, but say
981
00:35:43,815 --> 00:35:46,155
you know, that there's something like 200 enterprise
982
00:35:46,215 --> 00:35:46,954
data centers
983
00:35:47,494 --> 00:35:50,295
that are running Sonic out of potentially a
984
00:35:50,295 --> 00:35:51,034
100,000.
985
00:35:52,369 --> 00:35:54,469
And so there's huge market there,
986
00:35:54,930 --> 00:35:56,710
but, you know, those roadblocks
987
00:35:57,250 --> 00:35:59,110
that we were talking about, you know,
988
00:35:59,410 --> 00:36:00,630
steep learning curve,
989
00:36:01,570 --> 00:36:02,869
you know, poor documentation,
990
00:36:03,250 --> 00:36:03,989
poor training,
991
00:36:05,015 --> 00:36:07,175
or lack of training, I shouldn't say poor
992
00:36:07,175 --> 00:36:07,675
training,
993
00:36:08,695 --> 00:36:09,175
is,
994
00:36:10,055 --> 00:36:12,795
are become very significant for enterprises.
995
00:36:15,175 --> 00:36:15,675
Okay.
996
00:36:16,055 --> 00:36:16,555
Interesting.
997
00:36:17,094 --> 00:36:19,260
What's your perspective, Tom? What do you see
998
00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:19,760
going
999
00:36:20,380 --> 00:36:21,760
on? There's a few things.
1000
00:36:22,699 --> 00:36:24,860
One of the things because there's enterprise data
1001
00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:27,019
center. That's one segment. But another segment is,
1002
00:36:28,059 --> 00:36:29,659
what some I don't know. People gonna they're
1003
00:36:29,659 --> 00:36:31,659
calling it enterprise edge or what what you
1004
00:36:31,659 --> 00:36:33,199
put in your campus or whatever.
1005
00:36:34,514 --> 00:36:36,194
They're so that that segment,
1006
00:36:36,835 --> 00:36:37,574
has been
1007
00:36:37,875 --> 00:36:40,114
sort of underserved because there's some critical things
1008
00:36:40,114 --> 00:36:42,054
not in Sonic PoE. Right?
1009
00:36:42,355 --> 00:36:43,315
You can put it in,
1010
00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:45,074
and we've done that. But,
1011
00:36:46,650 --> 00:36:49,049
the so the pens working group is is
1012
00:36:49,049 --> 00:36:50,969
is taking that that challenge on, and they're
1013
00:36:50,969 --> 00:36:53,210
actually starting to do some work. That's kind
1014
00:36:53,210 --> 00:36:55,369
of interesting because because if you wanted to
1015
00:36:55,369 --> 00:36:56,969
run if you wanted to run Sonic Lake
1016
00:36:56,969 --> 00:36:58,989
in your campus network, you would have to,
1017
00:36:59,454 --> 00:37:01,855
you'd have to figure out the poe yourself.
1018
00:37:01,855 --> 00:37:03,375
Right? You'd have to develop the and it's
1019
00:37:03,375 --> 00:37:04,675
not it's not that hard,
1020
00:37:05,214 --> 00:37:06,494
but but you do have to do that.
1021
00:37:06,494 --> 00:37:07,614
You have to integrate it with the rest
1022
00:37:07,614 --> 00:37:08,355
of the system.
1023
00:37:09,375 --> 00:37:10,914
And the other thing is the
1024
00:37:11,390 --> 00:37:13,170
the the, l two protocols
1025
00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:16,430
just this was built for data centers. Right?
1026
00:37:16,430 --> 00:37:18,989
So Yeah. The the there's a there's an
1027
00:37:18,989 --> 00:37:21,010
old spanning tree PR that's, like,
1028
00:37:21,949 --> 00:37:23,550
five or six years old or something that
1029
00:37:23,550 --> 00:37:25,615
was never merged that a lot of these
1030
00:37:25,775 --> 00:37:26,974
a lot of the other the people who
1031
00:37:26,974 --> 00:37:28,914
build, enterprise sonic distributions
1032
00:37:29,454 --> 00:37:31,135
either take that or start over and and
1033
00:37:31,135 --> 00:37:32,575
kind of put their own stuff into it.
1034
00:37:32,575 --> 00:37:35,135
And so but as far as community sonic,
1035
00:37:35,775 --> 00:37:37,215
there is starting to be some traction in
1036
00:37:37,215 --> 00:37:38,815
the pens working group for spanning tree as
1037
00:37:38,815 --> 00:37:39,315
well.
1038
00:37:39,695 --> 00:37:41,609
If that's a technology that you're needing to
1039
00:37:41,609 --> 00:37:43,609
use or interoperate with. You you don't. I'll
1040
00:37:43,609 --> 00:37:45,130
just tell you upfront. You don't need to
1041
00:37:45,130 --> 00:37:46,909
use spanning tree. Continue.
1042
00:37:48,329 --> 00:37:50,109
The evils of spanning tree.
1043
00:37:51,130 --> 00:37:52,750
Yeah. Well so,
1044
00:37:54,324 --> 00:37:56,805
Yeah. Anyway, that's so that's, that's something that
1045
00:37:56,805 --> 00:37:58,485
has been lacking for a long time, which
1046
00:37:58,485 --> 00:37:59,844
was kind of a dead stop for a
1047
00:37:59,844 --> 00:38:02,164
lot of customers. Like, if you can't do
1048
00:38:02,164 --> 00:38:04,425
PoE, then I can't use this for like
1049
00:38:04,644 --> 00:38:05,445
85%
1050
00:38:05,445 --> 00:38:06,744
of the ports in my business.
1051
00:38:07,170 --> 00:38:09,730
And so, I think that's a that's a
1052
00:38:09,730 --> 00:38:10,630
that's a big thing.
1053
00:38:11,089 --> 00:38:12,949
What about Tom? Tom, do you see,
1054
00:38:14,449 --> 00:38:15,989
do you see a lot of interest,
1055
00:38:16,929 --> 00:38:18,769
you know, of of Sonic moving out of
1056
00:38:18,769 --> 00:38:21,394
the data center and into into the enterprise
1057
00:38:21,695 --> 00:38:23,855
edge? There's there's select people using it.
1058
00:38:24,494 --> 00:38:27,375
Not everybody obviously is public about it. But
1059
00:38:27,375 --> 00:38:29,295
there are there are people that are that
1060
00:38:29,295 --> 00:38:30,815
are doing well. I know for sure there's,
1061
00:38:31,054 --> 00:38:32,034
several. But,
1062
00:38:32,815 --> 00:38:34,515
the thing is the people doing this
1063
00:38:34,949 --> 00:38:37,750
aren't necessarily talking about it. Like, they have
1064
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:39,670
other things to do besides go to conferences
1065
00:38:39,670 --> 00:38:41,469
and give presentations. Right? And so you don't
1066
00:38:41,589 --> 00:38:43,030
you just don't hear about it. It doesn't
1067
00:38:43,030 --> 00:38:44,010
mean it's not happening.
1068
00:38:44,789 --> 00:38:46,550
You know, there there are people with scale
1069
00:38:46,550 --> 00:38:48,035
and stuff like that that are and and
1070
00:38:48,035 --> 00:38:49,315
you can have scale and not be a
1071
00:38:49,315 --> 00:38:51,735
hyperscaler is another thing that I would say.
1072
00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:53,894
But, but but I think it's
1073
00:38:54,434 --> 00:38:56,275
there it's a small number of people. It's
1074
00:38:56,275 --> 00:38:58,755
a small number of organizations, but, it is
1075
00:38:58,755 --> 00:39:00,375
working for those that are doing it.
1076
00:39:01,230 --> 00:39:03,309
So wouldn't that wrap back around, though, to
1077
00:39:03,309 --> 00:39:03,809
performance
1078
00:39:04,110 --> 00:39:06,590
to some degree? Like, I don't know. Seems
1079
00:39:06,590 --> 00:39:08,349
to me like in I know you said
1080
00:39:08,349 --> 00:39:10,349
earlier that we don't tend to deploy Sonic
1081
00:39:10,349 --> 00:39:12,289
in places where we need lots of routes,
1082
00:39:13,070 --> 00:39:16,105
but I still I don't know. There there
1083
00:39:16,105 --> 00:39:18,825
are areas, like, that concern me about Sonic
1084
00:39:18,825 --> 00:39:20,344
that I would like to see people work
1085
00:39:20,344 --> 00:39:23,385
on, basically. Yeah. Like what? Like that. So
1086
00:39:23,385 --> 00:39:25,625
route download's one thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Route
1087
00:39:25,625 --> 00:39:28,204
download's one thing. Like, you're talking about PoE.
1088
00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:31,940
Spanning tree, I actually prefer you just, like,
1089
00:39:32,159 --> 00:39:34,820
get just kick it out. I don't care.
1090
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:35,940
Well well,
1091
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,320
I will tell you that the that somebody
1092
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:39,860
wants it because there are people,
1093
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,400
yeah, working on that that are not my
1094
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:42,900
organization.
1095
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:44,340
So Yeah.
1096
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,140
Yep.
1097
00:39:46,224 --> 00:39:48,224
So, anyway yeah. So I don't know. There
1098
00:39:48,224 --> 00:39:49,664
there seem to be a few things like
1099
00:39:49,664 --> 00:39:51,025
that that I would like to see the
1100
00:39:51,025 --> 00:39:53,905
sonic community working on. So now if you
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00:39:53,905 --> 00:39:56,405
wanted to get involved in the sonic community,
1102
00:39:57,184 --> 00:39:58,625
say you wanted to work on one of
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00:39:58,625 --> 00:39:59,364
these things.
1104
00:39:59,670 --> 00:40:01,190
I know there are weekly calls. I don't
1105
00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:02,869
go to them and not because I wouldn't
1106
00:40:02,869 --> 00:40:04,710
like to, but because they tend to overlap
1107
00:40:04,710 --> 00:40:06,250
with other things in my life
1108
00:40:06,630 --> 00:40:08,150
99.9%
1109
00:40:08,150 --> 00:40:09,449
of the time. And I'm like,
1110
00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:10,730
could you please
1111
00:40:11,190 --> 00:40:13,349
not make the FR routing weekly and the
1112
00:40:13,349 --> 00:40:16,394
sonic weekly overlap with one another? Like, that's
1113
00:40:16,394 --> 00:40:17,214
that's just
1114
00:40:17,594 --> 00:40:18,094
painful.
1115
00:40:18,634 --> 00:40:20,394
And then I I don't know. Even internal
1116
00:40:20,394 --> 00:40:22,315
to Nokia, we have a whole sonic community,
1117
00:40:22,315 --> 00:40:24,714
and it's like, your meetings are always at
1118
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:25,214
noon
1119
00:40:25,755 --> 00:40:26,255
eastern.
1120
00:40:27,034 --> 00:40:27,534
Like,
1121
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,780
some of us need to eat.
1122
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,780
Don't you eat during the meetings?
1123
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,000
So I don't know. You know? It's like
1124
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:38,660
a thing.
1125
00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:41,039
But, anyway, so if you wanted to get
1126
00:40:41,039 --> 00:40:42,945
involved in Sonic and, And, Jeff, did you
1127
00:40:42,945 --> 00:40:44,385
have any other future stuff you wanted to
1128
00:40:44,385 --> 00:40:45,925
talk about before we move on?
1129
00:40:46,785 --> 00:40:47,184
And,
1130
00:40:47,985 --> 00:40:49,985
and I may not be the right, the
1131
00:40:49,985 --> 00:40:51,985
the best person to ask about getting involved
1132
00:40:51,985 --> 00:40:54,704
in Sonic either because I I I've sort
1133
00:40:54,704 --> 00:40:55,364
of just
1134
00:40:55,985 --> 00:40:56,885
been consuming,
1135
00:40:57,449 --> 00:40:59,690
you know, what other people have learned, and
1136
00:40:59,690 --> 00:41:01,690
I've I've not been very involved in the
1137
00:41:01,690 --> 00:41:04,269
in the sonic community myself as as far
1138
00:41:04,570 --> 00:41:06,589
as those meetings and that sort of thing.
1139
00:41:06,809 --> 00:41:08,570
Yeah. So I'll say, you know, you should
1140
00:41:08,570 --> 00:41:10,650
really start by just downloading C Lab and
1141
00:41:10,650 --> 00:41:12,109
getting it running with Sonic.
1142
00:41:12,425 --> 00:41:14,105
That's, like, the place to start if you
1143
00:41:14,105 --> 00:41:16,105
wanna learn it. And once you've learned it,
1144
00:41:16,105 --> 00:41:17,945
if you start finding problems and you'd like
1145
00:41:17,945 --> 00:41:19,885
to get involved, there are weekly meetings.
1146
00:41:20,264 --> 00:41:21,965
There are GitHub repositories.
1147
00:41:22,744 --> 00:41:25,144
There are maintainers. Right, Tom? There are people
1148
00:41:25,144 --> 00:41:27,880
who can push things. Yeah. And like like
1149
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,820
Jeff mentioned, it's, it's in,
1150
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,280
Linux found it. It's in Linux Foundation now.
1151
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,280
It was originally Yep. OCP, and then they
1152
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:35,900
moved it to Linux Foundation. But,
1153
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,260
but all the
1154
00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:40,119
probably the biggest thing is is go anybody
1155
00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:41,960
can join the working groups. They're all they're
1156
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:42,199
all in,
1157
00:41:42,954 --> 00:41:45,034
I think that l a Linux Foundation moved
1158
00:41:45,034 --> 00:41:47,454
them to different mailing lists. But, anyway, that's,
1159
00:41:47,594 --> 00:41:49,674
you know, it's this developer talk. Like, you're
1160
00:41:49,674 --> 00:41:51,514
not it's not a working group where you'll
1161
00:41:51,514 --> 00:41:53,234
go and someone will say what CLI command
1162
00:41:53,234 --> 00:41:55,275
do you type to configure an IP address
1163
00:41:55,275 --> 00:41:57,049
on a port or something? But Right.
1164
00:41:57,449 --> 00:41:59,289
But but it is really interesting and especially
1165
00:41:59,289 --> 00:42:00,650
from the point of view of, you know,
1166
00:42:00,650 --> 00:42:02,809
figuring out how the system works. And there's
1167
00:42:02,809 --> 00:42:04,650
tons of working groups, like lots of things
1168
00:42:04,650 --> 00:42:06,730
going on. And then there's the weekly community
1169
00:42:06,730 --> 00:42:07,230
meeting,
1170
00:42:07,849 --> 00:42:09,230
that is mostly,
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00:42:10,614 --> 00:42:13,815
mostly feature development focused. So you'll have because
1172
00:42:13,815 --> 00:42:15,974
that's where, you you have to make a
1173
00:42:15,974 --> 00:42:16,474
presentation
1174
00:42:16,775 --> 00:42:18,715
and answer questions in the community,
1175
00:42:19,015 --> 00:42:21,414
the weekly community meeting before your PR, will
1176
00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:23,710
be merged. And so, you'll see a lot
1177
00:42:23,710 --> 00:42:25,730
of the future development type stuff in there
1178
00:42:25,869 --> 00:42:27,469
and a big big huge group of people
1179
00:42:27,469 --> 00:42:28,849
with a few people speaking.
1180
00:42:29,710 --> 00:42:31,150
But those are the those are the ways
1181
00:42:31,150 --> 00:42:33,230
that I know of. Sounds a lot like
1182
00:42:33,230 --> 00:42:33,969
I IETF.
1183
00:42:36,065 --> 00:42:36,565
Yeah.
1184
00:42:37,184 --> 00:42:39,125
Yeah. Well, let's not talk about the ITF.
1185
00:42:40,704 --> 00:42:42,625
I would say that, yeah. I was kind
1186
00:42:42,625 --> 00:42:44,625
of opening that door to see where the
1187
00:42:44,704 --> 00:42:46,804
put the water come out. I've not
1188
00:42:48,119 --> 00:42:50,519
I've gotten very frustrated with the ITF recently,
1189
00:42:50,519 --> 00:42:52,199
so I don't know. We'll see where it
1190
00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:54,760
goes. It's it's kind of a thing. So
1191
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:55,420
That
1192
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,599
you know, the being involved in in the
1193
00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:01,639
developer community, I mean, that's that is yet
1194
00:43:01,639 --> 00:43:02,039
another
1195
00:43:02,954 --> 00:43:05,195
My brain always goes to, you know, young
1196
00:43:05,195 --> 00:43:07,195
engineers and, you know, people that are just
1197
00:43:07,195 --> 00:43:08,494
starting their career and
1198
00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:10,954
and, you know, if if you are a
1199
00:43:10,954 --> 00:43:11,934
network engineer
1200
00:43:12,235 --> 00:43:14,175
and you have interest in DevOps,
1201
00:43:15,210 --> 00:43:17,369
that's yet another way of driving that, you
1202
00:43:17,369 --> 00:43:18,429
know, it's it's,
1203
00:43:18,969 --> 00:43:19,710
you know,
1204
00:43:20,329 --> 00:43:22,349
is polish off your your
1205
00:43:22,889 --> 00:43:24,750
c plus plus skills and,
1206
00:43:26,489 --> 00:43:29,449
you know, and and, actually develop features. There's
1207
00:43:29,449 --> 00:43:30,670
there's always a need.
1208
00:43:31,265 --> 00:43:33,425
Yeah. I one one thing, so the other
1209
00:43:33,425 --> 00:43:35,025
thing so just one more thing I just
1210
00:43:35,025 --> 00:43:37,105
thought of. The SCI working group is really
1211
00:43:37,105 --> 00:43:39,844
interesting. The people working on switch abstraction interface.
1212
00:43:40,224 --> 00:43:42,385
And you will I I have learned a
1213
00:43:42,385 --> 00:43:43,825
lot. I haven't gone to those meetings in
1214
00:43:43,825 --> 00:43:45,339
a while, but I've learned a lot just
1215
00:43:45,339 --> 00:43:47,519
by listening to them talk about the issues
1216
00:43:48,139 --> 00:43:49,679
behind maintaining things.
1217
00:43:50,539 --> 00:43:52,780
You know, so size a pretty low level
1218
00:43:52,780 --> 00:43:54,780
construct and you know people will be talking
1219
00:43:54,780 --> 00:43:56,219
about, oh, we need to add this feature.
1220
00:43:56,219 --> 00:43:58,079
Oh, we're missing an enum in
1221
00:43:58,464 --> 00:44:00,864
in the structure over here. And if you
1222
00:44:00,864 --> 00:44:02,944
listen, it's like from an education perspective. If
1223
00:44:02,944 --> 00:44:04,144
you listen, you're like, what's that? What does
1224
00:44:04,144 --> 00:44:06,065
that mean? You can go, you know, ask
1225
00:44:06,065 --> 00:44:07,764
chat g p t. What does this mean?
1226
00:44:08,065 --> 00:44:09,764
And then you can start to piece together
1227
00:44:09,984 --> 00:44:12,140
how a lot of these things work and
1228
00:44:12,140 --> 00:44:13,900
you don't have to be a c developer
1229
00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:15,260
to gain a lot of value out of
1230
00:44:15,260 --> 00:44:16,239
this, in my opinion.
1231
00:44:16,699 --> 00:44:17,199
Yeah.
1232
00:44:18,059 --> 00:44:19,360
Yep. I agree.
1233
00:44:21,019 --> 00:44:22,880
Cool. Awesome. K.
1234
00:44:23,420 --> 00:44:25,994
The biggest thing, Russ, you said it yourself,
1235
00:44:26,075 --> 00:44:28,255
is just getting started is
1236
00:44:28,875 --> 00:44:29,355
is,
1237
00:44:29,835 --> 00:44:30,494
you know,
1238
00:44:31,355 --> 00:44:32,974
grab grab an old,
1239
00:44:33,914 --> 00:44:36,155
server from somewhere off of eBay. That's what
1240
00:44:36,155 --> 00:44:36,735
I do.
1241
00:44:37,434 --> 00:44:39,160
You know, build yourself,
1242
00:44:39,619 --> 00:44:42,420
container labs and run Sonic. I I know
1243
00:44:42,420 --> 00:44:45,380
we're audio here for video when we're talking
1244
00:44:45,380 --> 00:44:46,840
to each other, but kinda
1245
00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:50,119
right behind me there is,
1246
00:44:51,539 --> 00:44:52,739
is a an old,
1247
00:44:54,465 --> 00:44:57,184
server off of eBay that, that I'm running
1248
00:44:57,184 --> 00:44:59,445
container labs on. That's my that's my sonic
1249
00:44:59,985 --> 00:45:01,045
lab right there.
1250
00:45:01,744 --> 00:45:04,065
I have two minis forum boxes sitting up
1251
00:45:04,065 --> 00:45:06,400
on that shelf you can't see, But or
1252
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:07,920
up on a shelf, you can't see over
1253
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,440
there. And that's what I do is I
1254
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,360
just go buy cheap minis for them boxes
1255
00:45:11,519 --> 00:45:12,019
Yeah.
1256
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,420
And, you know, and just
1257
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,619
throw Ubuntu on them and
1258
00:45:18,894 --> 00:45:20,734
get continue the lab up and running and
1259
00:45:20,734 --> 00:45:23,214
then use them for various things. And that's
1260
00:45:23,214 --> 00:45:23,855
kind of my
1261
00:45:24,734 --> 00:45:26,174
that kind of my lab is sitting over
1262
00:45:26,174 --> 00:45:28,734
there. I kinda like small fanless boxes just
1263
00:45:28,734 --> 00:45:30,755
because I don't like Yeah. Minor.
1264
00:45:31,309 --> 00:45:33,309
I I'm the other way. I've my lab
1265
00:45:33,309 --> 00:45:34,989
tends to be kinda noisy, but it keeps
1266
00:45:34,989 --> 00:45:36,289
it nice and warm in here.
1267
00:45:37,150 --> 00:45:38,750
I I I buy a I buy a
1268
00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:41,789
lot of Dell r series servers off eBay
1269
00:45:41,789 --> 00:45:44,210
because they're cheap and, you know, very flexible.
1270
00:45:44,269 --> 00:45:44,769
And
1271
00:45:45,174 --> 00:45:46,554
I've I've always loved,
1272
00:45:47,974 --> 00:45:49,974
not meaning to make a big Dell,
1273
00:45:50,775 --> 00:45:52,775
pitch here, but I've always loved Dell servers
1274
00:45:52,775 --> 00:45:54,234
just because, you know, everything
1275
00:45:55,014 --> 00:45:57,414
just pops out really easy for a lab
1276
00:45:57,414 --> 00:45:58,154
and and,
1277
00:46:03,050 --> 00:46:04,989
easy to, to work with.
1278
00:46:06,170 --> 00:46:07,390
Yep. Cool. Alright.
1279
00:46:08,170 --> 00:46:10,010
Okay. So I think we beat this topic
1280
00:46:10,010 --> 00:46:13,150
to death. Well, not death or to extinction
1281
00:46:13,289 --> 00:46:15,369
or whatever you wanna say. When the horse
1282
00:46:15,369 --> 00:46:17,204
is dead, dismount. Is that the
1283
00:46:17,984 --> 00:46:20,385
Yeah. Well, hopefully, we haven't, beat it to
1284
00:46:20,385 --> 00:46:23,844
death. Hopefully hopefully, we've, generated a little interest
1285
00:46:24,065 --> 00:46:26,484
Yeah. A little interest. Yeah. Among your, listeners
1286
00:46:26,864 --> 00:46:28,964
or people that maybe didn't know Sonny.
1287
00:46:29,579 --> 00:46:31,420
Yeah. I hope yeah. If you don't know
1288
00:46:31,420 --> 00:46:33,440
it, get out there and learn it. It's,
1289
00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:34,559
you know,
1290
00:46:34,940 --> 00:46:35,440
it's
1291
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:38,860
like all other network operating systems. It's had
1292
00:46:38,860 --> 00:46:42,300
its trade offs. It's positives, really great positives,
1293
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:44,539
and some things that you kinda look at
1294
00:46:44,539 --> 00:46:46,434
and go, yeah. I'm not sure I would
1295
00:46:46,434 --> 00:46:48,135
have done it that way. But Exactly.
1296
00:46:48,994 --> 00:46:49,494
Whatever.
1297
00:46:50,194 --> 00:46:52,355
I think the same thing about Cisco iOS
1298
00:46:52,355 --> 00:46:54,375
and Junos and Evo and
1299
00:46:55,394 --> 00:46:57,809
all of that. Right? You know? It's all
1300
00:46:57,809 --> 00:47:00,769
that way. So it's just Yeah. Well, I
1301
00:47:00,769 --> 00:47:02,789
I mentioned early on my old,
1302
00:47:03,489 --> 00:47:04,289
history with,
1303
00:47:05,090 --> 00:47:07,110
Juniper when it was a startup and
1304
00:47:07,489 --> 00:47:09,190
a lot of, Junos
1305
00:47:10,114 --> 00:47:10,614
was,
1306
00:47:11,394 --> 00:47:14,054
you know, we got good developers there primarily
1307
00:47:14,194 --> 00:47:15,414
poached out of Cisco
1308
00:47:15,954 --> 00:47:18,355
by saying, hey, here's an opportunity to take
1309
00:47:18,355 --> 00:47:20,994
everything you learned building IOS and go all
1310
00:47:20,994 --> 00:47:22,594
the way back to square one and try
1311
00:47:22,594 --> 00:47:23,094
again.
1312
00:47:23,450 --> 00:47:25,289
And of course, Junos is an old operating
1313
00:47:25,289 --> 00:47:27,930
system now, but, you know Yeah. There was
1314
00:47:27,930 --> 00:47:30,090
a there was a time twenty five years
1315
00:47:30,090 --> 00:47:31,950
ago when it was new and innovative.
1316
00:47:32,490 --> 00:47:33,230
That's right.
1317
00:47:33,610 --> 00:47:34,670
Alright. Cool.
1318
00:47:34,970 --> 00:47:36,905
Alright. Jeff, where can people find you if
1319
00:47:36,905 --> 00:47:39,085
they want to? You have a blog, obviously.
1320
00:47:39,704 --> 00:47:40,764
I have a blog.
1321
00:47:41,625 --> 00:47:42,505
It's on my,
1322
00:47:43,304 --> 00:47:49,324
website, which is, www.doyleassociates.net.
1323
00:47:50,710 --> 00:47:52,789
And, you can find some blogs there that
1324
00:47:52,789 --> 00:47:55,110
I contribute to every now and then. You
1325
00:47:55,110 --> 00:47:56,230
can also find,
1326
00:47:57,190 --> 00:48:00,710
our mutual buddy, Jeff Jeff Tansura and myself,
1327
00:48:00,710 --> 00:48:02,864
and you're you're one of our most popular
1328
00:48:02,864 --> 00:48:04,945
guests on that show because you're a friend
1329
00:48:04,945 --> 00:48:06,164
and we always have fun.
1330
00:48:07,344 --> 00:48:10,144
Tom, we invite we invite Russ. Sometimes we
1331
00:48:10,144 --> 00:48:11,824
don't even care what the topic is. It's
1332
00:48:11,824 --> 00:48:13,344
just we'll just get on there and just
1333
00:48:13,344 --> 00:48:13,844
start
1334
00:48:14,224 --> 00:48:16,250
making fun of each other or whatever and
1335
00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:18,489
and, and have an entertaining hour and hope
1336
00:48:18,489 --> 00:48:21,210
somebody else is listening too. But,
1337
00:48:21,929 --> 00:48:24,589
that's that is called between two nerds.
1338
00:48:24,969 --> 00:48:25,609
The two is,
1339
00:48:26,250 --> 00:48:28,190
hex o x two
1340
00:48:28,489 --> 00:48:28,989
nerds.
1341
00:48:29,534 --> 00:48:30,034
And,
1342
00:48:30,494 --> 00:48:33,155
and you can find that on YouTube.
1343
00:48:33,694 --> 00:48:34,174
And,
1344
00:48:35,135 --> 00:48:35,635
yeah.
1345
00:48:36,414 --> 00:48:37,795
That's where to find us.
1346
00:48:38,255 --> 00:48:39,714
Cool. And Tom?
1347
00:48:41,949 --> 00:48:42,449
LinkedIn.
1348
00:48:43,710 --> 00:48:46,429
Alright. And I'm on LinkedIn too. I I
1349
00:48:46,429 --> 00:48:49,010
never think to plug LinkedIn. Yeah. That's fine.
1350
00:48:49,070 --> 00:48:50,750
And I'm Russ Weichkoff. I'm here at the
1351
00:48:50,750 --> 00:48:52,429
hedge at rule eleven dot tech on rule
1352
00:48:52,590 --> 00:48:53,329
on LinkedIn
1353
00:48:53,949 --> 00:48:54,449
occasionally
1354
00:48:54,750 --> 00:48:55,570
on x,
1355
00:48:56,545 --> 00:48:58,704
making weird comments that people don't know what
1356
00:48:58,704 --> 00:49:00,244
to do with. But anyway,
1357
00:49:01,905 --> 00:49:03,985
we know that we live in an attention
1358
00:49:03,985 --> 00:49:06,545
driven economy. And so thank you for listening
1359
00:49:06,545 --> 00:49:08,704
all the way to the bitter end of
1360
00:49:08,704 --> 00:49:10,690
this episode of The Hedge, and we will
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catch you next time.