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 …
Read MoreBPDU – 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
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 …
Read MoreNetwork 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 …
Read MoreF5’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 …
Read MoreNexus 7000 vPC Features
Next generation data centers across the world are taking advantage of Cisco’s Virtual PortChannel. As of recent, I’ve moved our core to a pair of Nexus 7010s running vPCs to the …
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