So a single ISP isn't cutting it anymore you need a backup just in case the primary fails and might as well add a second ASA into this design, more redundancy equals more up-time, right? On paper it sounds good but in the "real" world there probably is tipping point, more redundancy increases complexity. In …

Working on my Powershell skills, I was playing around with a Barracuda Load Balancer and noticed it supported some APIs which is kind of cool. At first I was playing around with it in postman and got to login and put some servers in maintenance mode, but then thought it would be really neat if I could get this working …

Let's start out 2018 with private VLANs, with PVLANs the network gets a little more privacy added to it. When we have privacy on the network we can seclude certain parts of it. Essentially, "you can go about your business - move along, move along". Private VLANs allow us to segment networks within a single …

From its older brother IGRP which was developed in 1980s to overcome the limitations of RIP, EIGRP was an "Enhanced" IGRP protocol. The main purpose of EIGRP was to overcome the limitations of classful networks and make EIGRP a classless routing protocol. During designing of this protocol a different …

I got my hands on some Cisco Firepower 4100 units and after playing around with them I wanted to reset them to factory settings, essentially erase the "startup-config" on the FXOS. The Firepower units act a little differently than your normal Cisco IOS or ASA and you can't just erase startup-config and reload …