Initial Setup of Catalyst SDWAN Controllers
It s been a while since I did an on-premises installation of the Catalyst SDWAN controllers and as I recently had [ ]
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Installing Step CA in My Homelab
Step CA is an open-source private CA made by Smallstep. I will use it to generate certificates for some componenents [ ]
Installing Dnsmasq in My Homelab
Dnsmasq is an application which has features like DNS caching, DHCP server, and so on. It s useful as a DNS [ ]
Pinging Hosts Sequentially vs Concurrently in Python
I m reorganizing some things in my homelab and wanted to check how many hosts are alive in a /24. The [ ]
Installing GitLab Community Edition
I need an on-premises Git server for my labbing so this post will describe how to install GitLab Community Edition [ ]
Cisco Launches Major Updates to Certifications
Cisco just announced major updates to their certification portfolio. Here s what s changing: CCNA v2.0 Effective February 2027, the CCNA is [ ]
Cisco AUTOCOR Passed
Yesterday I took and passed the Cisco AUTOCOR (previously DEVCOR) exam which is the core exam for CCNP Automation. That [ ]
BGP and MTU Deep Dive
A long long time ago, BGP implementations would use a Maximum Segment Size (MSS) of 536 bytes for BGP peerings. [ ]
Understanding Shortest Path First
Link state protocols like OSPF and IS-IS use the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm developed by Edsger Dijkstra. Edsger was [ ]
IS-IS Behavior on Multi-Access Networks
In many ways, IS-IS is a simpler, and perhaps more elegant, routing protocol than OSPF. However, it often gets misunderstood. [ ]