Network Design Principles

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Design principles are widely applicable laws, guidelines, biases and considerations that designers use to guide their decision-making process. Engineers use some of these principles to design products that meet the users’ requirements. In a series of posts, I describe briefly one design principle that is applicable to the design of… Read more »

Short Tutorial on Z-Wave

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Z-Wave is a wireless communications protocol that uses low-energy radio signals operating in the ISM band and support mesh networking topology. Z-Wave is used primarily for home automation for wireless control of home appliances e.g. lighting, security systems, thermostats, garage door openers etc. Z-wave protocol is developed by Sigma Designs,… Read more »

Building an OpenFlow Switch with Integrated Controller and IDS/IPS

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This post describes steps to build an OpenFlow switch using Open vSwitch on a server running Ubuntu 18.0.4. The server runs a Ryu controller and Snort intrusion prevention system, both are open source software. Such a system could be used a security appliance in a network of low-to-medium bandwidth requirements.

Building an OpenFlow Lab

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Like many people, I have started learning about Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow using Mininet, which is a great virtual environment to use. However, Mininet has some limitations, and I found myself looking for hardware alternatives. This article describes how to build an OpenFlow lab environment that can be used for… Read more »

FlowManager – An SDN Application

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The FlowManager is a RYU controller application that gives the user manual control over the flow tables in an OpenFlow network. The user can create, modify, or delete flows directly from the application. The user can also monitor the OpenFlow switches and view statistics. The FlowManager is ideal for learning… Read more »

How to create Linux containers

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Linux containers isolate applications from the host system that they run on and from other containers. Containers behave much like virtual machines, but unlike virtual machines, containers include only the software components they need to operate rather than an entire operating system. This improves performance and reduces the size of… Read more »

Controlling Zodiac-WX with Ryu

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The Zodiac WX from Northbound Networks is Dual-Band AC1200 AP that includes 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for PoE. It also integrates Zodiac OpenFlow® engine with OpenWrt operating system. The Zodiac WX works with any standard OpenFlow® 1.3 compatible controller and appears to the controller as a 65-port Ethernet switch. This post explains how… Read more »

Zodiac-FX Switch OpenFlow Throughput

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The Zodiac FX from Northbound Networks is an OpenFlow switch designed to deliver the power of Software Defined Networking to researchers, students, and anyone who wants to develop their SDN skills or build applications using real hardware. In a previous post, I described the process of connecting the Zodiac FX switch with… Read more »

Syslog Server for your Fortigate® Firewall

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Are you looking for lightweight Syslog server to test your Fortinet®‘s firewall installation? or Is your firewall missing a local disk to save the logs? If your answer is ‘Yes’ to either question, then you may want to check out this Python script at GitHub. The script starts a syslog… Read more »