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Lessons Learned from a Bad Day

I had a really, really bad day this past Tuesday. I mean, a really bad day. I guess I should have seen it coming since the last #stabbytuesday was uneventful. Here's what said cosmos had in for me and the lessons I took away. Most of these are things we've all lived before, but, for

Stubby Post – A Story on VPN Hardware Acceleration

We use a hosted application that requires IPSec tunnels to the provider from different properties across the country. The ones in the lower 48 perform adequately, but the new one in Alaska is absolutely horrible.

Stubby Post – Changes to CCNA Voice, CCVP, and CCSP

Cisco changes every certification track I go down. This time they’ve changed others, too.

SLA Monitoring on the PIX/ASA

We're working on an data center design for a customer, and they've dropped in two ISP links – each with it's own managed router and public IP space off one of the Ethernet interfaces. The idea is that they want to use the Internet links in an active-passive setup without getting their own IP addresses

CME Exercise #1 Solution

Here's my solution to the exercise I posed last week. Let's see if we can get this right. I'm going to assume you know how to give a router an IP address. If you don't, let me know and I'll help you out. We'll use 10.10.10.1/24 for our CME router. Let's work on the telephony