:: Blog shorts
Hi friends and fellow engineers, Writing blog posts can be very time-consuming. In my opinion blog posts must be robust and correct in every way and I try to accomplish…
:: Why soft skills are important?
During your career, you gain knowledge, experience, and skills. But we tend to focus on the obvious which is knowledge, more knowledge, and much more knowledge. While this is very…
:: It’s here! The CCIE LAB Image
A few days ago Peter Paluch posted a thread on Cisco Learning Network. He has created an OS image based on Debian that is used in the actual CCIE EI…
:: 300-415 – I ate the Sandwich!!
Today I'm going to share my experiences for the 300-415 ENSDWI, also called the EN-Sandwich exam, which I took this week. The exam was highly overdue. To my opinion, I…
:: CCIE EI V1.0 Instructor Led Training
My CCIE EI goal started on January of 2020, again. Again, you might ask? Yes, I already started in 2013 when CCIE V4 was still the one to take, but…
:: SD-WAN status dashboard
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
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
:: 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
:: 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
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…