I have a local Cisco SD-WAN lab environment running at home, which was built in EVE-NG. It's what I use whenever I need to test something for a customer, or just play around with the templates or APIs. I'm planning on spending some hands-on time with new features soon, along…
So if you've read some of my recent posts - you may have seen that I purchased a NetGear LB 1121 LTE Cellular modem to use for home internet backup. Well - I decided to upgrade! After using the NetGear modem for a while, I started having some issues where…
Note: I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This is to help support my blog and does not have any impact on my recommendations. It's been a crazy couple of months recently. With what began as a temporary lockdown & mandatory work-from-home has now become…
I ran into an interesting issue recently, which was caused by use of the switchport protected command…. So I use a pair of Cisco 2960-8TC-L switches at home, for both my home network and lab. A few months back I ran a bunch of ethernet cabling within my house,…
Back a few months ago, I wrote a bit about why it is important to have a good design for IP addressing schemes (part 1 and part 2). As a brief refresher, the situation I found myself in was an environment where practically everything was assigned a 10.x.x.…
“The network is slow” – Sound like something you’ve heard before? What does ‘slow’ mean anyway? And is it different from yesterday? Sometimes tracking down network ‘slowness’ can be pretty difficult, especially when you don’t have a good baseline of…
Port Security. Always seems like one of those things covered in Cisco exams, yet how many businesses actually use it? For those that aren’t implementing it, should they? Or is it too much of a headache? So the concept of port security is fairly simple – We want…
I really want to take a moment to talk about how wonderful VRFs/firewall contexts really are. Both technologies essentially allow a network administrator to spin up a virtualized, isolated instance of a network device. I’ll be honest and say that I hadn’t had the chance…