OPNsense on Qotom Q750G5 - Hardware Overview & Perf Testing
In this post, we will take a look at the Qotom Q750G5 hardware (with 2.5GbE), install OPNsense, and walk through a few performance tests.…
[How To] Connect Meraki MX to Umbrella SIG/SWG
In today's blog post - we'll be checking out how to integrate a Meraki MX firewall to Cisco's Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) & Secure Web Gateway (SWG) services. Interested in seeing how to do this with Cisco Viptela SD-WAN? Check out this post Note: This integration is still rather…
[How To] Upgrade a Cisco SD-WAN Network
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…
Meraki MG - Setting up Meraki's New Cellular Gateway
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…
How to: Setting up Google Fi on a Netgear LTE Modem
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…
Odd Behavior of Protected Switchports
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,…
Migrating IP Addressing Schemes
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.…
Tracking Latency and Packet Loss with SmokePing
“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…