I purposely saved the best topic for last, or maybe I am just that much of a glutton for punishment that we didn’t discuss this first. We are going to cover everyone’s favorite topic: Multicast! Before configuring our environment, we need a foundation or understanding of how multicast works. It is such a massive topic […]
In our last post, we talked about OSPF Basics. Today, we will look at what Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networks or VxLAN are. VxLAN is an overlay technology. It can transport Ethernet (Layer 2) over IP (Layer 3). Typically deployed in larger data centers to deal with scalability issues and problems associated with these large
Coming up in the IT world, specifically the network side of this industry, there are a few sites that I have frequented coming up in the industry. This can be broken down into either video, podcast, or written form. You have Keith Barkers Youtube, Network World, ZDNET, and The Networking Nerd (Yes, Tom, I do read your blog). I
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Let’s take a trip down memory lane. I last learned about OSPF basics when studying for my ICND 2 exam in 2008. How do I know and or remember this? Well, 1, it was when I earned my CCNA, my first-ever associate Cisco certification. The more plausible answer is that I kept all my notes
These last few months have been pretty crazy. If you want a TL:DR on the last two months, this image best sums it up. I figured it was about time to get back into it. I had wanted to do this for a while. Unfortunately, a few health bumps along the road prolonged this. I
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Since joining Forward Networks, I have attended my fair share of conferences. As I sat here checking conferences off the list I wanted to go to, I noticed one I never thought I would get to attend. Mainly because what I thought about it was the focus was deep security. Although I have never been
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At around 5 AM EST, I was violently awakened by my smoke detectors. The first thing that went through my mind was, well, that server I have on is burning the house down. It was not dramatic but just the ever-so-charming “Get up on a ladder and replace my batteries” alarm. Now that I am
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After a scorching week in the desert, Cisco Live 2024 is in the books. However, this one was different from the other two I have attended. My personal life was flipped upside down when my wife was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in March. If you want to read about that day, I blogged about
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Coming off my last blog post on My First Anniversary at Forward Networks, I was on cloud nine! I have a fantastic job where I work with, hands down, the best humans on the planet. My family just returned from an incredible vacation three weeks ago where we swam with dolphins, and I went parasailing.
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Last Wednesday was my first anniversary at Forward Networks. It’s cliche to say, “Oh, it feels like I just started,” but that is what it feels like. It is also a big deal because it marks my major transition from a technology-based role, my focus for my whole career, to a gasp marketing role. I
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