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“Without People You’re Nothing” — Joe Strummer

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Snake Test: 4 Nodes @ 800Gbps = 25.6 Tbps

8 x 100G Host NIC’s feeding the Snake Test: 48 Hours 2x400G Uplinks to Snake Test Switch: 48 Hours Snake Test Switch 32x400G: 48 Hours Snake Test Switch @ 25.6 Tbps: 48 Hours

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DNS over TLS over VPN and back

DNS over TLS is a big step in fixing a badly designed protocol, at least in terms of privacy, but it still leaves you having to trust the endpoint with all of that data that you are trying to keep … Continue reading

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Prepping for changes with EVE-NG; SONiC, Arista, Juniper and Cisco

This weekend I got motivated to start building out my EVE-NG lab with SONiC since we are in the middle of testing out 400G in our hardware labs. The green links below need to be added to our real environment … Continue reading

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Object-Oriented Programming vs. Functional Programming

Today I found a great article on hacker news with regards to Object Oriented Programming. Some interesting arguments about code complexity causing issues with Volkswagen accelerator issues and the Boeing MAX issues. https://suzdalnitski.medium.com/oop-will-make-you-suffer-846d072b4dce “None of the built-in OOP features help … Continue reading

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OSX 10.15 on 2009 Macbook Pro & ESXi 7.0

I updated my 2009 macbook pro this weekend from 10.11 (last supported OS) to 10.15. The best part about it all is that the computer runs FASTER with Catalina installed then it did with El Capitan! It’s possible that this … Continue reading

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Rocket.Chat Installation on Synology DS415+

RocketChat on DS415+ Tutorial You may or may not have heard of Rocket.Chat. It’s basically an open source clone of Slack that you deploy on your own server. The best thing about it is that it’s free and you own … Continue reading

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Python Inventory Search

I wrote a python script to query a website and check to see if an item is in stock. If it finds the product in question it will email me a report with a hyperlink so that I can click … Continue reading

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Free DNS subdomains

Free DNS subdomains via afraid.org is a great resource for lab and test machines. They also have a free Dynamic DNS service which is a great way to keep tabs on your Home IP address in the event it should … Continue reading

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DMVPN with BGP & OSPF

DMVPN with BGP and OSPF

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