You Should Automate Something This Year

Need a push to start learning network automation?

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

One Year Later

Some thoughts on the past year, and goals for the year to come

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

What's wrong with VLAN 1?

“VLAN 1 is bad!” - I’m sure you’ve heard this before. Ever wonder why?

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

How to Improve: Stop Doing, Start Understanding

The best way to truly understand a technology is to dig deeper than surface-level configurations

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

What's Going Out of Your Network?

Ever consider enabling firewall filtering for outgoing traffic from your network? Let’s look at why that could be interesting…

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

L2 Basics: Spanning-Tree Protocol

The fundamentals of how Spanning-Tree Protocol works

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

How to: Migrating to a New Synology NAS

Just bought an upgraded Synology NAS? Here’s how to migrate to the new unit

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

Review: Amazon LightSail

My experience with hosting this blog on Amazon Lightsail

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

My 2018 Goal: CCIE R&S

I’m finally starting to work toward one of my long-standing goals: The Cisco CCIE Certification

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

Devil in the Defaults

It’s always the simple details that come back to haunt us…

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