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…
Category: Networking
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…
Policy-based routing on Fortigate with VPN
I’m going to give a very short and sweet summary of this article for those in a hurry that happened across this page by way of some quality Google searches. Continue Reading…
Client VPNs and Fortigate firewalls
I won’t start out with a bad mouthing, we’ll get to that later. Overall, I’ve been incredibly happy with Fortigate’s hardware products, especially the amazing suite of features they pack into Continue Reading…
Building NTPD 4.2.8 on RedHat 7.3
Let me guess; you had an ancient RedHat 7.3 server sitting around that was acting as an NTP server, so you’ve of course never replaced it because why bother, it Continue Reading…
Booting a Cisco VoIP phone behind a Fortigate firewall
I have a Cisco VoIP phone that I use remotely and to do that, it of course needs to be able to boot up and interact with its mother Call Continue Reading…
Keep losing your ssh session from behind a Fortigate?
If there’s one thing I like to do, it’s leave SSH sessions open to all my frequently accessed systems. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s finding them disconnected when Continue Reading…
Workaround for Cisco Finesse 10.0 Firefox requirements
Here’s a solution I came up with for a problem where the installed version of Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) was version 10.0.1 which means Finesse is also version Continue Reading…
Using trusted SSL’s in Cisco Unified Communications Manager 10.0
So you’ve got a spiffy Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly Cisco Call Manager, install for your company’s phone service? Maybe you have their Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) Continue Reading…
RHEL/CentOS 6 network takes FOREVER to start when there’s lots of IP’s
Do you ever run into this issue? You need to reconfigure networking and do a network restart and this happens: That duplicate ip address check takes a LONG time. On Continue Reading…