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:
Category: Networking
Arista management VRF setup
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…
Watch out if you purchase FortiTokens
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…
Upgrading Cisco 8831 phone firmware
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…
Getting a dual stack VPN up with FortiGate and FortiClient
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…
Getting a FortiGate to send IPv6 Router Advertisements
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…
SCP’ing an IOS image to a Cisco 2960XR stack
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…
Cisco 2960XR IOS upgrade from usb flash is super slow
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…
Initial Arista impression
This article is a work in progress; still updating it with more info as of July 2016. In May 2016 I got my hands on a few Arista switches for Continue Reading…
OSPFv3 between Arista and Brocade or Cisco
Similar to my article about Cisco and Brocade not wanting to interact with each other without a very specific configuration, you’ll likely run into the same issue if you’re trying Continue Reading…