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2014-07-09

Summary Post – OSPF Network Statement Order and Matching

When you configure OSPF network statements, IOS orders them most-specific to least-specific then does a top-to-bottom match of the interfaces. It doesn’t matter which order you put them in, the configuration will always be ordered with the longest prefix matches first. Lab time!

2013-07-02

Cisco Live 2013 Insights – Cisco Tactical Operations

While walking through the World of Solutions, we ran across a big black truck with lots of antennas all over it. It was obviously an emergency communications vehicle of some kind, but I was really surprised to see it was a Cisco truck. It turns out that Cisco has a Tactical Operations group that was formed to provide disaster responders with much-needed communications for FEMA, state EMA, fire, police, medical, etc.

2009-04-15

The Most Random Things Can Hurt The Network

This is a great one that I have to share. A couple of coworkers walk in today and ask for some help on an issue.  It seems that a business unit was having latency problems with a web app, and, after research by the product team and sysadmins, nothing wrong could be found.  Lots of […]