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Networking Field Day 2

Networking Field Day 2

Have you heard the news? You’re least favorite blogger is making the trip to San Jose California for Tech Field Day: Network Field Day 2 — I really want to add a dramatic movie …

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SNMP can save your life

SNMP can save your life

Ever get locked out of a router or switch that is many hours or even days away? Recently, I had the pleasure, again. For some reason, be it the consultant that was turning up our …

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BPDU – Blog Post Data Unit?

BPDU – Blog Post Data Unit?

My most recently collection of interesting bits of data found out on the blogsphere/internets. Due to my lack of time, I’ve decided to recycle what I find out on the ‘net and share …

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Best Practices and Securing Cisco IOS

Best Practices and Securing Cisco IOS

Everyone has different views on hardening IOS, and while I do not claim to be an expert, these are the practices that I commonly use when bringing up a new device. If you see …

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Network Duct Tape Gone Wrong

Network Duct Tape Gone Wrong

As many of you may know, I’m in the middle of a huge network redesign, last week our new firewalls finally arrived and it became time for us to start migrating services onto the …

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F5’s iRules — My first look

F5’s iRules — My first look

I’ve never had the opportunity to really do much with F5 load balancers in the past, but recently one our system engineers needed some load balancing setup, and wanted to know if …

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