Fortigate VLAN, VXLAN, VPN, oh my!
Here’s some highlights if you don’t feel like reading: Be very careful – your resulting config may be passing flood-based routing protocol packets, spanning tree BPDU’s, and any other broadcast Continue Reading…
Category: Networking
Simplest ever OpenVPN Connect client IPv6 issue
Spent way too long troubleshooting an issue where OpenVPN Connect, on iOS in this case, was connecting to the server successfully, receiving both an IPv6 address and gateway assignment, and Continue Reading…
Installing a public CA SSL certificate to Cisco Advanced Quality Management (AQM)
I may be wrong, but I think the only difference between Cisco’s Quality Management and Advanced Quality Management is the screen recording component, so these same steps may work fine Continue Reading…
Verizon static IP’s, opengear, APN’s, oh my
I’m a happy proponent of Opengear devices for out of band management (serial and/or VPN); been using them back to 3G days with great success. Fast forward to 2018 and Continue Reading…
Getting a Dell 1510 Wireless (aka Broadcom 4322) working in Windows 10
Not sure if anyone will ever actually find this article useful, as we’re dealing with ancient technology here, but I figured I’ll write it out just in case. I found Continue Reading…
Key-based SSH authentication to IOS XR devices
Are you used to doing this in Cisco IOS? and what you end up with is an easy and obvious local user who can authenticate over SSH using their key Continue Reading…
NCS5501 port bundling, switching, and MC-LAG
Just got a new pair of NCS5501 SE’s, and per my article here, they are upgraded to what is currently IOS XR 6.2.25. Next, if you’re coming from Arista, you Continue Reading…
NCS5501 / IOS XR 6.2 and BGP in a VRF
An update to this article; there’s a method to get around the issue I ran into. It is not well documented, and TAC knows nothing about it in my experience, Continue Reading…
Cisco NCS5501-SE Initial Deploy / Upgrade
This is just a little diary entry for my first install of some NCS5501-SE devices. I continue to edit it as I find more and more that is broken on Continue Reading…
SCP’ing an image inbound to an Arista switch
Just a quick article on what you need to do to be able to SCP an image into an Arista switch: Obviously have SSH enabled; password or key-based auth are Continue Reading…