Working With Numbered Access-Lists
Back in the day, I didn’t have any white hairs, you could get a bag of potato chips for a quarter, kids didn’t behave badly, and numbered access-lists were all you had to work with […]
August 2012
Those Pesky Active BGP Sessions
You’re troubleshooting a routing problem; you check BGP and the neighbor shows as active. Great, let’s move on and look somewhere else. Right now a good proportion of you should be shouting at your screen […]
An Open Letter Regarding AS-Path Access-Lists
Dear Cisco, Re: AS-Path Access-lists May we please have named as-path access lists in IOS? I’m really bored of my self-documenting configurations being effectively obfuscated by these ugly numbers I have to use in match […]
Test Your Troubleshooting Skillz
Image courtesy of Ambro / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Here’s a quick test of your psychic troubleshooting skills. I’ll give you a real life scenario, and you try to figure out what’s wrong. Sound like fun? Go on, give […]
What Does It Mean To Be A CCIE?
What does it actually mean to have passed the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert exam and get those ‘digits’ (your CCIE number)? Fame, glory, and billions of dollars await! Well…
My CCIE Story – Part 5 (The Aftermath)
In this final part of my CCIE Story, I thought I’d take a look at what the CCIE has meant to me, some of the things I’ve learned along the way, and some thoughts on […]