Time to have some fun in the lab with Inter-AS Option AB. Let’s get our geek on! Inter-AS Option AB – where the data traffic uses the VRF interfaces (or sub-interfaces) and the control plane (BGP VPNv4) uses the… Read More ›
Fun in the Lab
The Case of the Missing LDP Neighbor
R1 and R2 are cabled up twice to each other via their gig0/0/1 interfaces and their gig0/0/7 interfaces. Each connection is in its own subnet, and each interface configured for OSPF and MPLS. But while we have 2 OSPF neighbors… Read More ›
Setting Up Addressing and Routing: FTDv Fun
In my previous blog (Fun in the Lab: FTDv & FMC – Install and Deploy) we deployed a FMC VM and a FTDv VM and ended the blog with the FTDv successfully added to the FMC. Now? Now let’s add… Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: IWAN, LiveAction, Prime, UDP Director
Okay… so just some major geeky fun in the lab. I had lots of fun doing it… so why not share it with you and let you in on some geeky fun? Thirty-eight minute YouTube with a PDF guide book…. Read More ›
WAN Impairment/WAN Emulator with WAN Bridge
Playing in the lab and want to impair a link with delay or loss? 🙂 I use WAN Bridge – its simple and free. So say I’m testing an SD-WAN brownout/impairment avoidance solution in my lab. For example, Cisco’s IWAN. … Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 2 Licensing
When we left me at the end of Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 1 Prep Work …. (1) I had cloned an already existing CUCM VM and (2) I was stuck on the CUCM Licensing… Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 1 Prep Work
For those of you who know me I always kid that I’m afraid of UC. But a few things conspired together to make me decide to attempt the plunge.