Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year - 2024 everyone!! Its a new year, which means a new beginning. For the last couple of years I have been very incognito and focused on some personal areas of my life. This meant that I have not been active in the networking community as much as I would have liked and not attended as many things either.
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Invest in Yourself

Hi Folks, I wanted to take a few moments to share an idea I learned way back. Its very simple, because its the simple of act of “investing in yourself”. What I mean by that is, that you should set aside some amount of $$$ each year and use that to further educate yourself in a suitable area.
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Enterprise Networking PVT

This week, I am attending Cisco’s EMEAR Enterprise Networking PVT in Amsterdam and I wanted to highlight some key takeaways. Cisco is really doubling down on getting its software strategy in place. Everything, and I mean everything gets a mention in regards to what sort of software is enabling it (DNA Center/SD-Access/SD-WAN etc.
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ASA Lessons: Static PAT

I decided a while back I would spend a bit of time learning about the Cisco ASA firewall. This is the first post surrounding some technologies I have explored during that time. For some of you it might be easy stuff, but for others, including myself, might find it interesting for reference.
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Practical OTV

Practical OTV ————- This post is all about OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualization) on the CSR1000v. I wanted to create the post because there are alot of acronyms and terminology involved. A secondary objective was to have a “real” multicast network in the middle, as the examples I have seen around the web, have used a direct P2P network for the DCI.
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Useful links for Observium + Rancid

I recently decided that i would like to utilize Observium as well as rancid for configuration backups on my home network. To that effect, the following links really helped me out getting it all setup correctly: https://docs.observium.org/rancid/ http://packetsandpings.blogspot.com/2013/05/installing-and-configuring-rancid.html https://layer77.net/2016/08/10/upgrading-from-rancid-2-3-8-to-3-4-1/ Let me know if you run into anything i might help out with.
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JNCIA-Junos

I recently completed the entry level Juniper certification. I thought it would be a good idea to study for something other than the mighty Cisco, so Juniper’s JNCIA-Junos seemed like a good choice. It was a very fair exam I can highly recommend.
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Practical DMVPN Example

In this post, I will put together a variety of different technologies involved in a real-life DMVPN deployment. This includes things such as the correct tunnel configuration, routing-configuration using BGP as the protocol of choice, as well as NAT toward an upstream provider and front-door VRF’s in order to implement a default-route on both the Hub and the Spokes and last, but not least a newer feature, namely Per-Tunnel QoS using NHRP.
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February – A busy month indeed!

Wow, what a busy month this has been! So I started my new job on February 1st and thus far, everything has been really great. My new coworkers are very friendly and helpful. I’ve spent the better part of february, trying to get to grips with the SP network I will be focusing on from now on.
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