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:: SD-WAN status dashboard

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:December 29, 2020
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For my current role as a Security Consultant I need to create a lot of dashboards and Security Use Cases in Splunk. I'm pretty good at it, but not a…

:: EOY 2020

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:December 23, 2020
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This year has been somewhat unique to say the least. A challenging year which brought both good things, but also bad things. The only thing we all can probably agree…

IT Blog Awards Finalists 2020

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:December 17, 2020
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:: The surprise of surprises Just on a random mid-week evening sitting at the diner table eating my home made hamburger. All of a sudden my twitter feed explodes. What!? Co-networker…

CCIE EI Notes FHRP :: GLBP IPv4

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:October 25, 2020
Post Category:Routing & Switching
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:: Protocol details Gateway Load-Balancing Protocol: Used over Layer-2 segments to provide redundant gateway functionality for IPv4 and IPv6Cisco Proprietary: Other vendors don't/cannot use this protocolFunctions: Gateway redundancy and load-sharing*…

SD-WAN :: WAN Edge sides

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:September 26, 2020
Post Category:Routing & Switching / Uncategorized
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During my labbing adventures for SD-WAN I thought creating a SD-WAN network is simple. It actually is when you just replicate Internet and MPLS network by one box and use…

SD-WAN :: Adding vEdge Cloud

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:September 26, 2020
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Before we jump in adding vEdges to controllers it's good to know how many roads lead to Rome. The Cisco SD-WAN solution has two types of software platforms: vEdge (Viptela…

SD-WAN :: Platinum Library

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:July 6, 2020
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For the past few months I've been studying the SD-WAN course provided by Cisco. As a partner you can have access to a lot of course material at this moment.…

Community Engagement :: Next level

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:July 4, 2020
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It is time to interact with the Networking community on a different level. I've been using twitter for many years now and used it for many personal interests like F1…

Spelunking the caves :: Cisco ASA REST API

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:July 1, 2020
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For one of my projects we need to extract realtime data from Cisco ASA firewalls. Cisco already provides a REST agent for ASA Firewalls since 2014-ish. The REST agent provided…

Getting distracted by MPLS L3 VPN’s

Post Author:Jordi Schlooz
Post published:June 20, 2020
Post Category:Service Provider
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It started of with my SD-WAN lab. After hours of studying and eventually adding a few vEdges to finalize the Control Plane bringup, I was ready for templating, creating different…