Note: I’m playing with themes right now. I don’t particularly like the one I’m on today, except code blocks look better and it reads nicer on phones. We’ll see if I can tweak the CSS to get it where I want it, or will need to switch themes again. The nice thing about being an […]
Category: Technical Explanation
VRRP, IPv6, and the “Why” Question
Ivan Pelpnjak has an interesting post (H/T to Ethan Banks) critiquing Cisco’s VRRP v3 CLI implementation for IPv6. It got me thinking about a question I was told never to ask: “Why?” Never ask why? Back when I really wanted to get into networking, I took a five-day bootcamp with Global Knowledge taught by a gentleman […]
Programmability for Network Engineers
Since I finished my series of articles on the CCIE, I thought I would kick off a new series on my current area of focus: network programmability. The past year at Cisco, programmability and automation have been my focus, first on Nexus and now on Catalyst switches. I did do a two-part post on DCNM, […]
Cisco DCNM 10 Overlay Provisioning Part 2
Introduction My role at Cisco is transitioning to enterprise so I won’t be working on Nexus switches much any more. I figured it would be a good time to finish this article on DCNM. In my previous article, I talked about DCNM’s overlay provisioning capabilities, and explained the basic structure DCNM uses to describe multi-tenancy data […]
Cisco DCNM 10 Overlay Provisioning
Introduction I’ve been side-tracked for a while doing personal articles, so I thought it would be a good time to get back to some technical explanations. Seeing that I work for Cisco now, I thought it would be a good time to cover some Cisco technology. My focus here has been on programmability and automation. Some of […]