Archive

2024  2

April  1

[How To] Set up Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) on Proxmox

April 18, 2024 · 5 min · 882 words · Matt Schmitz

January  1

[Quick Fix] Nexus 9k & Ansible: “Request without namespace and filter is an unsupported operation”

January 31, 2024 · 4 min · 674 words · Matt Schmitz

2023  2

August  1

[How To] Protect Your Home Network with Mullvad VPN & OPNsense

August 29, 2023 · 12 min · 2429 words · Matt Schmitz

February  1

Getting Started with Cisco YANG Suite

February 21, 2023 · 13 min · 2636 words · Matt Schmitz

2022  6

December  1

[How To] Set up AdGuard Home on OPNsense

December 9, 2022 · 17 min · 3426 words · Matt Schmitz

October  1

[How To] Building a Simple Discord Bot using DiscordGo

October 19, 2022 · 19 min · 3857 words · Matt Schmitz

August  1

[How to] Set up Wireguard VPN on OPNsense

August 2, 2022 · 11 min · 2173 words · Matt Schmitz

June  1

OPNsense on Qotom Q750G5 - Hardware Overview & Perf Testing

June 18, 2022 · 10 min · 2011 words · Matt Schmitz

March  1

[How to] Webex Chatbot (Part 2): Digging in to Adaptive Cards

March 12, 2022 · 12 min · 2499 words · Matt Schmitz

February  1

[Video] Upgrading my Home Lab - Intel NUC11 & ESX 7.0

February 7, 2022 · 1 min · 174 words · Matt Schmitz

2021  11

December  1

[How To] Setup a Satisfactory Dedicated Server on Debian Linux

December 4, 2021 · 8 min · 1646 words · Matt Schmitz

November  1

[How To] Building a Simple Webex Chatbot with Python Websockets & OpenWeather APIs

November 18, 2021 · 10 min · 2067 words · Matt Schmitz

October  1

Network Engineering: Do I REALLY Need to Learn to Code?

October 13, 2021 · 7 min · 1374 words · Matt Schmitz

May  1

[How To] Cisco SD-WAN - Onboarding a Catalyst 8000v

May 14, 2021 · 10 min · 2123 words · Matt Schmitz

April  1

[How To] Connect Cisco SD-WAN to Umbrella SIG/SWG

April 22, 2021 · 9 min · 1741 words · Matt Schmitz

March  4

[How To] Connect Meraki MX to Umbrella SIG/SWG

March 23, 2021 · 7 min · 1436 words · Matt Schmitz

JNCIA-Cloud Study Resources (All Free!)

March 22, 2021 · 2 min · 293 words · Nicole Henry

From Postman to Python: Your First GET Request

March 11, 2021 · 12 min · 2514 words · Matt Schmitz

Old Computer Fails to Discover SSID nor Connect to Home Network [Solved]

March 4, 2021 · 4 min · 641 words · Nicole Henry

February  1

JNCIA-Junos Study Resources (All Free!)

February 3, 2021 · 2 min · 421 words · Nicole Henry

January  1

Getting Started with IOS-XE Guestshell

January 26, 2021 · 9 min · 1872 words · Matt Schmitz

2020  13

November  1

[How To] Upgrade a Cisco SD-WAN Network

November 27, 2020 · 8 min · 1663 words · Matt Schmitz

October  1

Automating the CLI (Part 2): Building a Web Dashboard with Flask & Bootstrap

October 12, 2020 · 11 min · 2340 words · Matt Schmitz

September  2

An Afternoon with ARIN

September 15, 2020 · 8 min · 1594 words · Matt Schmitz

Automating the CLI: Using Scrapli & Cisco Genie to Collect Interface Data

September 8, 2020 · 8 min · 1624 words · Matt Schmitz

August  1

Meraki MG - Setting up Meraki’s New Cellular Gateway

August 20, 2020 · 11 min · 2198 words · Matt Schmitz

July  3

Cisco Firepower - Automating Cellular Failover

July 17, 2020 · 10 min · 1922 words · Matt Schmitz

Privileged Access is Dangerous

July 16, 2020 · 6 min · 1096 words · Matt Schmitz

How to: Setting up Google Fi on a Netgear LTE Modem

July 9, 2020 · 6 min · 1128 words · Matt Schmitz

May  1

How To: Convert Catalyst 9100 AP to Embedded WLC

May 5, 2020 · 10 min · 2125 words · Matt Schmitz

January  4

CCIE: Strategy & What’s Next

January 25, 2020 · 5 min · 1016 words · Matt Schmitz

CCIE: Lab Day

January 25, 2020 · 10 min · 2069 words · Matt Schmitz

CCIE: Written Exam & Lab Prep

January 25, 2020 · 8 min · 1542 words · Matt Schmitz

Story Time! How I Started Working Toward the CCIE

January 25, 2020 · 6 min · 1188 words · Matt Schmitz

2019  3

November  1

How to: Catalyst 9800 MAC Filtering

November 12, 2019 · 8 min · 1595 words · Matt Schmitz

July  1

CCIE R&S Study Resources

July 25, 2019 · 2 min · 249 words · Matt Schmitz

April  1

Getting Started with Cisco NFVIS

April 13, 2019 · 4 min · 656 words · Matt Schmitz

2018  15

October  1

CCIE Progress Update

October 19, 2018 · 9 min · 1842 words · Matt Schmitz

September  1

The Future Web: Privacy or Security (You Only Get One)

September 4, 2018 · 4 min · 838 words · Matt Schmitz

July  1

Where is all the Automation?

July 24, 2018 · 5 min · 1064 words · Matt Schmitz

May  2

Synology Volume Crash

May 22, 2018 · 6 min · 1080 words · Matt Schmitz

Tips for Working with Vendor Support

May 9, 2018 · 9 min · 1830 words · Matt Schmitz

March  2

Automated F5 Backups with CatTools

March 27, 2018 · 3 min · 558 words · Matt Schmitz

Juniper SRX - Automated Route Monitoring

March 13, 2018 · 5 min · 888 words · Matt Schmitz

February  4

Thoughts on Cisco’s 2018 Annual CyberSecurity Report

February 21, 2018 · 7 min · 1487 words · Matt Schmitz

Autonegotiation issues on Nexus QSFP Ports

February 20, 2018 · 3 min · 455 words · Matt Schmitz

What is Risk Acceptance?

February 14, 2018 · 5 min · 867 words · Matt Schmitz

How Does Maintenance Scheduling Affect Your Network?

February 7, 2018 · 5 min · 952 words · Matt Schmitz

January  4

L2 Basics: Configuring an EtherChannel

January 30, 2018 · 7 min · 1408 words · Matt Schmitz

2018 Cisco Champions

January 19, 2018 · 1 min · 109 words · Matt Schmitz

You Should Automate Something This Year

January 9, 2018 · 6 min · 1149 words · Matt Schmitz

One Year Later

January 2, 2018 · 4 min · 737 words · Matt Schmitz

2017  39

December  1

What’s wrong with VLAN 1?

December 5, 2017 · 6 min · 1261 words · Matt Schmitz

November  3

How to Improve: Stop Doing, Start Understanding

November 28, 2017 · 6 min · 1158 words · Matt Schmitz

What’s Going Out of Your Network?

November 21, 2017 · 4 min · 789 words · Matt Schmitz

L2 Basics: Spanning-Tree Protocol

November 14, 2017 · 8 min · 1554 words · Matt Schmitz

October  4

How to: Migrating to a New Synology NAS

October 24, 2017 · 4 min · 810 words · Matt Schmitz

Review: Amazon LightSail

October 17, 2017 · 6 min · 1255 words · Matt Schmitz

My 2018 Goal: CCIE R&S

October 10, 2017 · 4 min · 793 words · Matt Schmitz

Devil in the Defaults

October 3, 2017 · 5 min · 999 words · Matt Schmitz

September  1

SRX High CPU: httpd

September 5, 2017 · 4 min · 830 words · Matt Schmitz

August  2

Ten years of Cisco Certification

August 29, 2017 · 3 min · 527 words · Matt Schmitz

Odd Behavior of Protected Switchports

August 22, 2017 · 4 min · 700 words · Matt Schmitz

July  3

SRX Basics: Redunancy Groups and Failover

July 18, 2017 · 7 min · 1474 words · Matt Schmitz

SRX Basics: Clustering

July 11, 2017 · 6 min · 1115 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 4 – Polling the SRX)

July 4, 2017 · 6 min · 1212 words · Matt Schmitz

June  4

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 3 – Creating the Dashboard)

June 27, 2017 · 11 min · 2237 words · Matt Schmitz

How to Write a Better IT Resume

June 21, 2017 · 8 min · 1686 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 2 – Learning Django)

June 13, 2017 · 6 min · 1087 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 1 - Initial thoughts)

June 7, 2017 · 3 min · 548 words · Matt Schmitz

May  4

Migrating IP Addressing Schemes

May 24, 2017 · 5 min · 874 words · Matt Schmitz

How to: Synology Backups with CrashPlan

May 16, 2017 · 6 min · 1217 words · Matt Schmitz

Alright - Now What?

May 11, 2017 · 3 min · 502 words · Matt Schmitz

Quick Tips for Better BGP

May 2, 2017 · 6 min · 1127 words · Matt Schmitz

April  4

Tracking Latency and Packet Loss with SmokePing

April 25, 2017 · 5 min · 1064 words · Matt Schmitz

Juniper SRX VPN Issues

April 18, 2017 · 7 min · 1405 words · Matt Schmitz

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How to Prove It’s Not the Network

April 11, 2017 · 4 min · 794 words · Matt Schmitz

You’re Not Perfect: Admit Your Mistakes

April 4, 2017 · 5 min · 951 words · Matt Schmitz

March  4

College vs Certification - Which is better?

March 28, 2017 · 5 min · 874 words · Matt Schmitz

Why Have a Home Lab?

March 21, 2017 · 5 min · 916 words · Matt Schmitz

Port Security: Worth the effort?

March 14, 2017 · 6 min · 1084 words · Matt Schmitz

Want Change? Make it happen!

March 7, 2017 · 5 min · 882 words · Matt Schmitz

February  4

What’s your hesitation?

February 28, 2017 · 3 min · 476 words · Matt Schmitz

Virtual Networking Contexts

February 21, 2017 · 4 min · 685 words · Matt Schmitz

Why isn’t everything done “the right way”?

February 14, 2017 · 3 min · 636 words · Matt Schmitz

A Little Bit of Magic

February 7, 2017 · 3 min · 622 words · Matt Schmitz

January  5

The Argument for Standardized Configurations

January 31, 2017 · 4 min · 776 words · Matt Schmitz

Getting Started with JunOS PyEZ

January 24, 2017 · 5 min · 913 words · Matt Schmitz

The Small Things (0x2142)

January 17, 2017 · 3 min · 559 words · Matt Schmitz

BGP: Getting Started with Multi-homed Internet

January 10, 2017 · 4 min · 767 words · Matt Schmitz

IP Address Design (Part 2)

January 3, 2017 · 4 min · 817 words · Matt Schmitz

2016  4

December  4

IP Address Design (Part 1)

December 27, 2016 · 3 min · 630 words · Matt Schmitz

Background Story (Continued)

December 20, 2016 · 4 min · 666 words · Matt Schmitz

First, A Bit of Background

December 13, 2016 · 3 min · 589 words · Matt Schmitz

A New Start

December 6, 2016 · 3 min · 473 words · Matt Schmitz