Recent Posts - page 16
-
1 Year Anniversary for Networking With Fish
It seems like just yesterday I was at CiscoLive in San Francisco asking people I had met on twitter about their experiences blogging as well as hosting a web page. Today? Last week marked the 1 year anniversary of “Networking… Read More ›
-
YouTube: A Little IWAN Fun in the Lab
In this YouTube “playing in the lab” IWAN fun we are going to have 2 phones (one in Branch 1 and one in Branch 3) doing a voice/video call. We will use LiveAction to see that the video call between… Read More ›
-
IPv6: Yet Another Post Trying to Urge You to Start TODAY
“Okay, who wants to learn IPv6 and be the IPv6 person for CPOC?” This was the question asked by our manager to our team back in 2002 when we heard “IPv6 is COMING – GET READY NOW!” My hand went… Read More ›
-
YouTube: Packet Capturing with VIRL
Tried VIRL when it first came out. “Why?”, you ask, when you know I work in a Cisco Customer Proof of Concept lab with lots of “real” networking hardware? Answer is because it would be nice to be able to… Read More ›
-
Intelligent WAN (“IWAN”) Here I Come!
As many of you know I work in Cisco’s Customer Proof of Concept (CPOC) lab and have for many years (since February of 2001). What this has meant is that for the past 14 years I’m never in one specific… Read More ›
-
Troubleshooting Networks: Tips from a Network Detective
For over 30 years I’ve been in the playing in the “world of IT” and wow has that world changed a great deal in those years. But through all that change, there has been a thread, for me, that has… Read More ›
-
Interop LasVegas 2015: My Schedule
Featured Categories
Network Detective ›
-
Why IT-Site1 Can’t Ping OT_Site1R – Show and Tell Time #1
September 9, 2025
-
Troubleshooting OT Security: Why IT-Site1 Can’t Ping OT_Site1R
August 27, 2025
BGP ›
-
BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco FTD: Part 2 – Seeing it “In Action”
May 17, 2022
-
BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco FTD: Part 1 – Configuring
May 17, 2022
Multicast ›
-
mVPN Fun in the Lab: Troubleshooting the MVPN Cloud – Part 6 of 6
March 29, 2019
-
Network Detective Ride-Along: Troubleshooting Multicast
May 27, 2018
IPv6 ›
-
Understanding IPv6: Solicited-Node Multicast In Action (Part 7 of 7)
February 22, 2018
-
Understanding IPv6: The Ping Before Solicited-Node Multicast (Part 6 of 7)
February 22, 2018
MPLS ›
-
Troubleshooting Basic MPLS L3VPN – Part 2 – MPLS
February 23, 2021
-
Troubleshooting Basic MPLS L3VPN – Part 1 – BGP
February 23, 2021
