My friend Lindsay Hill wrote about the potential negative sides of joining an ambassador program. Lindsay brings up lots of valid points. My response here is to explain why I’m in one, which might not be obvious from the outside
The future of GNS3 – with comments from Stephen at GNS3
Intro My last post asked for GNS3 to come clean. Some may have mistaken it for a bashing of GNS3 which was definitely not the intention of the post. The post was intended to get a discussion going and to
Some pointers on OSPF as PE to CE protocol
There was a discussion at the Cisco Learning Network (CLN) about OSPF as PE to CE protocol. I wanted to provide some pointers on using OSPF as PE to CE protocol. RFC 4577 describes how to use OSPF as PE
GNS3 – It’s time to come clean
Many network engineers, Cisco students and people just interested in networking has used GNS3 in the past for studies and Proof of Concepts (PoC). Despite it being a CPU hog, bugs in the Ethernet drivers and lack of stability it
Cisco XRv has been released
Many of you have probably heard of Cisco VIRL or what is now called Cisco Modeling Labs (CML). CML is due for release later this year and is supposed to include support for IOS, IOS XE, NXOS and IOS XR.
Cisco diff – compare configurations
Just a quick post to show how one can compared what is in the startup-configuration compared to the running-configuration or to compare to different configurations stored on flash on Cisco devices. The device boots up with the startup-configuration. Then we
Cisco Learning Network VIP 2014
I have been selected to join the Cisco Learning Network VIP program for 2014. I’m very happy and proud to join this program as I like to give back to the community. I try to do so by answering questions
Merry christmas – and some of my plans for 2014
I would like to wish everyone a happy christmas and a happy new year. 2014 is going to be a big year for me and I would like to describe some of the things that I plan for 2014. I
CCIE RS v5 – My Thoughts
When is the Update Coming Finally the announcement is here, CCIE RS v5 is going live on June 4, 2014. That means that the last day to take both the written and the lab for v4 is June 3, 2014.
EIGRP Network Design
Introduction Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a routing protocol developed by Cisco based on the DUAL algorithm. EIGRP was previously proprietary but has recently been opened up by Cisco with an IETF draft. EIGRP has been accused of