Networking
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Setup Multiple Gateways and Multiple Internet Connections One Host
These days, most organizations have multiple circuits and connectivity for egress traffic outside the core network environment. There may be certain use cases where a host needs to have connectivity to multiple gateways or ISPs for different network connections. In…
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Veeam Powered Network Overview and Installation
I had seen a couple of tweets from Anthony Spiteri around Veeam Powered Network or Veeam PN. Having only briefly heard a couple of blurbs about this after VeeamOn I wanted to get some first hand experience with the product.…
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Create Veeam Isolated Sandbox Virtual Lab
I have written several posts on how to created an Isolated lab environment using the same IP addresses or overlapping subnets. This requires some network trickery to pull off to make the routing work correctly. Veeam has functionality in the…
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GNS3 2.0 released new features
For those networking geeks out there like myself, no doubt you have used and continue to utilize GNS3 as a tool for mock ups, learning, and just about anything else you can think of. GNS3 today has some major news…
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Installing and Configuring Thousandeyes Enterprise Agents
For those that haven’t heard of Thousandeyes, it is a cloud based service that helps to quickly and easily track down network issues that for so long were impossible to track down due to the lack of visibility into ISP networks.…
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How to add Cisco NX-OSv in GNS3
In provisioning a quick lab scenario inside of GNS3, I wanted to use the NX-OSv image to simulate some real hardware. Â For those that may not know, as I wrote about, you can take images downloaded via the Cisco VIRL…
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Use Meraki MX Security Appliance to throttle bandwidth
As I detailed in a previous post, I was able to get my hands on a Meraki security appliance for home lab use. Â I am still liking the performance and cloud integrated features of the Meraki platform and the ease…
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Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking
Most by now are running 10g network connections at least in the core network or especially in virtualization environments with top of rack switches aggregating network traffic from ESXi hosts. Â I ran into an issue recently with copper 10g twinax…
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GNS3 Beta Packet Capture between QEMU devices
One of the cool things that you can do with GNS3 is packet captures between devices. Â However, if you are using QEMU (Quick Emulator) Cisco image devices, the current stable release of GNS3 does not support packet captures with QEMU…
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Use VIRL Images in GNS3
In the first post of the GNS3 VM series, we looked at how to setup GNS3 VM VMware ESXi. Â One of the awesome features of the new GNS3 VMs is that you can actually use your VIRL images in GNS3…
