Had a great week at Cisco Live! 2009 in San Francisco. I attended sessions on IPv6 (service provider and enterprise sessions), network security (Multicast, IPv6 and Virtualization) and several sessions on the next generation datacenter vision from Cisco (hint: everything is virtualized).
Some of the interesting things in Cisco's vision of the next data center is that everything is virtualized. This goes in both the direction of making multiple hardware components look like a single hardware component (such as the VSS on the Catalyst 6500 platform) or in the other directionwith a single component acting as multiple virtual components (such as the case with VDC on the Nexus or VMware on servers).
IPv6 seems to be missing some major items for full deployment (from the service provider standpoint). For example, there is no MPLS support (for the service provider transporting MPLS traffic only over IPv6).
I did not make any real progress on the SNAT tool, because of all of the sessions at Cisco Live. But, I will be making some more progress in the coming days.
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