Entire Home LTE Backup With a Single Bar of Signal?!Hurricane Ian recently made its way through my region of Florida, leaving me without power and a primary Internet connection. The power was…Oct 10, 2022Oct 10, 2022
Why I Achieved an MBA From WGUIn November 2021, I successfully completed the requirements to obtain a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Western…Nov 8, 2021Nov 8, 2021
How to Enable PCI Passthrough on EVE-NGHave you ever needed to pass a PCI device directly to a node inside an EVE-NG lab? It is certainly not a common configuration, but I had a…Apr 11, 2021Apr 11, 2021
Published inThe StartupToday I Passed the Juniper JNCIS-SP ExamThis post details my experience passing the Juniper JNCIS-SP JNO-362 exam. I explain some of my background and motivations for taking this…Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021
Published inThe StartupHow I Passed the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Exam ANS-C00This post details the materials and methods I used to study for and pass the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Speciality ANS-C00 exam…Dec 19, 20201Dec 19, 20201
Published inThe StartupToday I Passed the Online Juniper JNCIA-Junos ExamThis was my first time taking an online-proctored exam through Pearson VUE. For popular IT exams, this method of testing is still fairly…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
Published inThe StartupToday I Passed the Cisco DevNet Associate Exam (200–901)The Cisco DevNet Associate (200–901) Exam represents a decent foundational-level body of knowledge whose importance continues to increase…Jul 16, 20201Jul 16, 20201
Published inThe StartupCisco SD-WAN: Basic Configuration LabThis post walks you through how to get a Cisco SD-WAN lab operational with a minimal number of steps. Sometimes the most difficult part of…Dec 18, 20192Dec 18, 20192
Published inThe StartupConnecting Multicast Islands with GREThis post covers how to join together devices requiring multicast connectivity across networks that do not support multicast. This…Dec 10, 2019Dec 10, 2019
Published inThe StartupIPv6 6RD with Ubiquiti and DD-WRTThis posts walks through how to create an isolated network which has access to the IPv6 Internet via 6RD using Ubiquiti EdgeMax equipment…Dec 10, 2019Dec 10, 2019
Easy Disaster Recovery PlanDR plans encompass everything from no plan whatsoever (failing to plan is planning to fail), to active/active workloads distributed among…Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019
Managed SD-WAN: An Enterprise PerspectiveIn this post I detail my experiences as a network engineer deploying SD-WAN from the point of view of an enterprise customer of a Managed…Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019
Using Bridge Domain Interfaces on Cisco RoutersI am replacing an old Cisco 3945 router with a new ASR-1001X. The 3945, which has three gigabit Ethernet interfaces, has one connection to…Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019
Understanding and Configuring Network Address Translation (NAT) for Cisco CCNA, CCNP and CCIENAT can be a very confusing topic. In the real world, NAT is most frequently performed on firewalls and load balancers, but the Cisco…Dec 8, 2019Dec 8, 2019
Running Facebook’s Open/R in EVE-NGFacebook announced their homegrown Open/R routing protocol a few years ago and eventually used the open-source software model to make it…Dec 8, 2019Dec 8, 2019
Studying For and Passing the CISSP ExamAs of December 6, 2019, I am fully and officially certified by (ISC)2 as a CISSP.Dec 8, 2019Dec 8, 2019
