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Goals for the New Year

Yes, I know I’m late. Just remember I’m lazy, and it all makes sense. This year I’ve decided to go a little more practical with my goals. Instead of “get this cert” or “learn about that”, I’ve decided to take some steps to help myself. That

The Usual End of the Year Tripe

The year is finally coming to an end, so it’s time yet again to look at goals and embarrass myself by publicly admitting that I didn’t meet them. Oh, well. Let’s get this done so I can go back to sleep. I changed the layout of the

Junos Basics - Routing Instances

Here’s one that I use every day at work. We have multiple customers coming into the same router, and, as luck would have it, they all use 192.168.1.0/24 (OK…not really but it might happen). That means we have to separate them into their own

An Interesting Interview Story

We’ve been looking for a new Network Engineer for quite a while but are having no luck at all. There is plenty of talent out there, but finding a high-end Juniper guy is almost impossible around here. We’ve loosened up our requirement for Juniper experience just to get

Junos Basics - Configuring BGP

I’m stuck deep in Junos these days. I mean deep. I have an F5 load balancer and an ASA 5520; the rest of my stuff is Juniper. That means I have some learning to do. Here’s one of the basics in Junos – configuring BGP. I guess I’ve

Stubby Post - Time for a New Provider

After years of getting so-so service from my old hosting provider, I’ve finally migrated over to an unnamed competitor. After my thorough testing schedule, I have no doubt that everything nothing is broken. Surely I didn’t miss some diagrams or audio files or videos or anything. If you

Junos Configuration Groups

It has been quite a spring so far. I’ve spent the last two months at our data center racking, railing, mounting, cabling, extending, labeling, and documenting a whole pile of switches, routers, and firewalls for our new environment. I won’t and can’t go into the details, but