Best-Practices
Network Design — Keeping it simple
- Tony Mattke
- Design & architecture
- 3 min read
Since the dawn of time people have skirted best practice and banged together networks, putting the proverbial square peg in the esoteric round hole. For example, new vendor XYZ’s …
Best Practices and Securing Cisco IOS
- Tony Mattke
- Security
- 8 min read
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 …
BGP Security Tips (updated)
- Tony Mattke
- Routing
- 2 min read
For some, BGP is a rather large obtrusive beast of a protocol that scares them half to death. This is not without good reason as BGP is not only the most important protocol running …