So everyone keeps saying “SDN is the future!! Network Engineers beware!!”, and it’s been a few years but generally my reply to that remains the same. “Meh.” I’ll save my general SDN opinions for another post. This post is about Cisco ACI, and all the fantastic fail that it is.…
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VPLS BGP Signaling (this is really cool)
So, a while back (~ a year ago now) I did a YouTube video/blog post about having a sort of hacked VPLS environment in GNS3. Why?! Because it’s awesome to have a multi-point l2vpn running over MPLS, that’s why. Today, I bring you a post/video that’s far from a hack.…
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CSR1000v and GNS3, best thing?
Really quick post today about integrating the CSR1000v into GNS3. First up! Why would you want to do this? Latest greatest IOS Feature packed (supports VXLAN, OTV, MPLS, VPLS, and a ton more) What do you want from me? Those first two should be enough. Video at the bottom for…
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GNS3 All the Things!!
Coming soon, I’m going to do a short video series about getting all your favorite VIRL appliances (vNX-OS, ASAv, IOS-XR, vIOS, and vIOS-L2) running in GNS3. So you can enjoy all the power of a modern virtual lab, without the overhead from OpenStack (what VIRL runs on).
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VXLAN and GNS3!!!
This isn’t going to be a super long blog post, but I just wanted to quickly add my recent videos :-). Install CSR1000v into Virtualbox, and integrating with GNS3 And VXLAN in GNS3
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Passing the CCIE (R/S) – A non-technical post
This is going to be me rambling. Fair warning. I wanted to write down my experience with CCIE lab, now that I’m finally done. Not what technologies I saw, or who’s workbooks helped the most (though I’m happy to answer those questions, so long as they don’t violate NDA). This…
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CCIE# 47884
Can’t. Stop. Shaking. I just got my results in and after nearly four long years, I’m a CCIE. More to come later. I do want to write up my general feelings on the exam, and what v5 candidates should expect.
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OSPFv3 for IPv4 (hooray address families!)
OSPFv3 is a pretty slick upgrade to OSPFv2. Most of us know as much, but in an IPv4 world we’re all just stuck… waiting. Well with recent updates to IOS (I noticed it available in 15.3 – which can run on a 7200 in GNS3 for all you labbers at…
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Where I’m at now…
So a quick update, I have passed the 400-101 (v5 written) and I’m back into full swing. Thanks to the awesome re-take policy iPexpert offers, my bootcamp is booked also. So if anyone out there plans to attend OWL in March, I’ll be in RTP for that class. All in…
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EIGRP OTP – Looking closer part 1
So I’m going to break my closer look at EIGRP Over the Top into a couple smaller posts. Maybe I’ll tie it together with a video when I’m done… maybe lol. So today I thought I’d answer the most basic question of OTP, how the hell does it work?! In…