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As promised here's the current template I'm using to configure the Juniper EX4300 series switches in my environment. Please feel free to provide corrections or updates based on your own experiences.We'll touch on the following configuration topics; … [Continue reading]
About six months ago we started looking at replacing our aging Cisco 4500 chassis switches that were over 11 years old and starting to show their age with PoE issues, line card failures and numerous bad ports. We had a simple campus network design … [Continue reading]
I honestly wasn't planing a desktop upgrade, but you know what happens when hardware dies... time for an upgrade.Unfortunately the wife's computer recently died so I gave her my desktop (swapping SSDs and hard drives) and went about putting … [Continue reading]
I just recently had two HA pairs of Cisco ASA firewalls just stop communicating. A reboot of both the primary and secondary firewall in each HA pair resolved the problem. I had never observed such odd behavior from two pairs of Cisco ASA firewalls so … [Continue reading]
I recently stumbled over an interesting problem with Verizon's FiOS Internet service while doing some consulting. In an effort to protect the innocent and prevent and ass hattery, I've changed the IP addressing to use something from RFC5737.A … [Continue reading]