Attention Network Engineers – S...
No. I wasn’t meaning that!
I have spent the last few days trying to get an ME-3600 to play nicely with an SRX for VPLS.
AFI L2VPN for BGP was set up and the sessions were established and everything looked good….until I created the VPLS on the Cisco switch.
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Book Review: Juniper MX Series
Now, I have to admit that I love most Juniper products with the exception of the J-series and have spent a fair amount of time on the Juniper certification trail.
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IOS XR and the egrep function
As you may have already realised I am always looking for ways to speed up my day to day tasks.
Every few days I check my BGP peering to see if there are any sessions down and then give the peers the obligatory nudge to reset a session.
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Checking RX and TX light levels on th...
It’s been quite a while since my last post and I thought I would post this little snippet of information that I found while deploying the ASR platform into my employers network.
The optics I am using are standard Cisco branded 10GBASE-LR
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Using VASI to exchange IGP routes bet...
I attended the packet pushers party on Friday 17th and managed to have some of my questions answered during what was a great show.
My current project is to provide L3 services into one of our sites where the incumbent requires their ip address space back in the near future. This results in the following scenario:-
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The path to certification
Over the last few years I have made the transition at the company I work for, from Support Engineer to Network Engineer. In between this I became a Managed Services Engineer dealing with the configuration, installation and maintenance of Cisco 1800 series routers. During this time I decided I would use the knowledge gained in my day job to g [...]
fun with bi-directional forwarding (B...
So I was tasked to provide a failover mechanism for a customer with Juniper equipment without using OSPF.
With the L2 providers we use there is always a link from the CPE to the provider equipment and then it breaks out to their backbone. Now, this means that there could be a break in the provider network and the customer CPE would still see [...]
Juniper as-path-expand with bgp commu...
With working in an ISP enviroment I always find myself trying to automate or create process for others to follow so I don’t have to do the work
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Junoshere. For the masses?
It is amazing how sleepy you feel when sitting in a relatively dark auditorium after a buffet lunch.
I sat through a presentation on Junosphere which looked fantastic and just what the community has been crying out for so we no longer require to use olive’s that we cannot get support for.
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How to recover Cisco IOS from rommon
Thought I would add this to my blog to help anyone that was in the same situation I had back in April. A big thanks to Richard Morrell ( @richardmorrell ) for this!
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