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Cisco Live US 2017 - The Plan So Far

2017-02-21 ·4 min read

Put it on your calendar. Cisco Live US is June 25 - 29, 2017, in Las Vegas. This is the largest conference I go to every year, and it’s the highlight of my professional year. I’ve been …

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Cisco Clock Issue - This Is Really Bad

2017-02-05 ·2 min read

Check out this advisory from Cisco that came out a couple days ago. You need to read it and act on it immediately! I’ll summarize for you : Thanks to a faulty clock signal component, certain …

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ASIC Programmability from Barefoot Networks

2017-01-30 ·5 min read

Full disclosure : I was lucky to be among a group of networking influencers invited to Silicon Valley to visit some networking companies and see what they were offering to the market. I was flown out …

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QoS? Really?

2016-08-20 ·3 min read

I wrote this post during Cisco Live and said “I’ll just give it a once-over tonight and publish it.” That was something like 6 weeks ago now. What a loser I am. Yes, really. QoS has …

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Cisco Live 2016 - Everything Is Coming Together

2016-04-12 ·2 min read

It seems that Cisco Live is about the only thing I blog about in the last…well, few years. At least I’m still writing, even if it is twice a year. :) Here’s a summary about Cisco …

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Cisco Live - The Complaints

2015-06-16 ·2 min read

You should know by now that I always find something to complain about. Is that a bad thing? Probably. Does it help improve things? Absolutely! Again, I love going to Cisco Live every year. Without …

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Cisco Live 2015 - Helping Others

2015-06-14 ·3 min read

Another year, another Cisco Live. Boy, was it a good one. San Diego is a great city, and convention center there is plenty big to take care of all 25k attendees. On top of that, the city itself is …

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FEMA and Your Business Continuity Plan

2014-09-12 ·4 min read

I passed the ROUTE exam a few days/weeks/months/something ago and decided to pursue certifications of another sort for a while. The wife and I are trying our best to help the community through our ham …

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Summary Post - Methods to Manipulate OSPF Costs

2014-07-11 ·2 min read

There are three ways to manipulate the interface cost in OSPF. One is very direct, one changes the presentation of the interface, and the other changes the calculations for every interface. Set the …

Summary Post - OSPF Network Statement Order and Matching

2014-07-10 ·2 min read

When you configure OSPF network statements, IOS orders them most-specific to least-specific then does a top-to-bottom match of the interfaces. It doesn’t matter which order you put them in, the …

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