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…
Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
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…
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…
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…
Here’s some tips on setting up a management VRF in Arista gear, including management VRF routing which may or may not be available to you depending on equipment. Keep in Continue Reading…
Just a little word of warning for anyone considering purchasing FortiTokens in quantity to get volume discounts, but who don’t expect to use them all right away. The tokens will Continue Reading…
Cisco, did you really have to make this process sooooo painful? Anyway, here’s what you’ll need to do if you want to upgrade an off the shelf 8831 conference phone Continue Reading…
Dual stack FortiClient VPN’s are not fun; and a default massive security hole exists that I’m guessing most CISO’s/CIO’s don’t pay attention to since many people still barely know what IPv6 Continue Reading…
You’d think this would be an easy thing where perhaps a FortiGate unit would behave like a layer 3 switch; add an IPv6 address, it starts sending router advertisements. Nope. Continue Reading…
Well, obviously you need SSH access to do this. You also need your IOS device to be set up as an SCP server. If you aren’t set that way, you’ll Continue Reading…
So I decided to upgrade a 2960XR stack via flash instead of TFTP mostly just because I could. What I wasn’t prepared for is how incredibly slow it went, and Continue Reading…