In Part 1 we set the stage and configure the FTD to BGP (w/ GR enabled) with the N9K. In part two it is now time to play! 🙂 What Will be Covered in Part 2 Basically I’m going to… Read More ›
Routing
BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco FTD: Part 1 – Configuring
Enabling BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) just got so easy! I’m stoked! So the other day I needed to put together an environment with the FTD eBGP peering with graceful restart enabled and test it…. Read More ›
Tunnels and the Use of Front Door VRFs
Come with me on a ride-along about “front door VRFs”. Front-door VRFs in a tunneled environment are really quite cool but often scare people new to them.
Troubleshooting Basic MPLS L3VPN – Part 2 – MPLS
Ready for part 2 of our Network Detective MPLS L3VPN Ride-Along? In part 1 we were presented with the “Case of the Failed L3VPN Ping”. We started, like any ping troubleshooting, on the IP subnets themselves – do they exist in the… Read More ›
Troubleshooting Basic MPLS L3VPN – Part 1 – BGP
Time for a little more fun in the Network Detective series! Today’s “Network Detective Ride-Along” will bring us into the config setup of someone very new to MPLS L3VPNs. As we go along remember the Network Detective Mantra “Be Prepared,… Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: Troubleshooting DMVPN Per-Tunnel QoS
In Playing in the Lab: DMVPN and Per-Tunnel QoS we looked at DMVPN per-tunnel QoS. We looked at how to configure it…. how the vendor private extensions in RFC2332 are used in the NHRP registration request… and how to see,… Read More ›
Playing in the Lab: DMVPN and Per-Tunnel QoS
There is this really cool thing about DMVPN that I came across a while back: DMVPN Per-Tunnel QoS. Apparently it isn’t just me (as a lab rat) that thinks this is cool. Every time I show this to people I… Read More ›