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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from Mastering Python Networking Your one stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and SDN

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784397005

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python Language FREE CHAPTER

2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions

3. API and Intent-Driven Networking

4. The Python Automation Framework - Ansible Basics

5. The Python Automation Framework - Ansible Advance Topics

6. Network Security with Python

7. Network Monitoring with Python - Part 1

8. Network Monitoring with Python - Part 2

9. Building Network Web Services with Python

10. OpenFlow Basics

11. Advanced OpenFlow Topics

12. OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV

13. Hybrid SDN

Lab setup

The lab for this chapter is similar to the one in the last chapter but with this difference: both the network devices are IOSv devices. Here's an illustration of this:

The two Ubuntu hosts will be used to generate traffic across the network so we can look at some non-zero counters.

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