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Kompressor You're a project network engineer. You arrive at the office. The group calendar shows there are twenty services to migrate this week. You've never logged in to these firewalls before. You've never seen the services that need to be migrated before. Each firewall is…

For SRE, any manual, structurally mandated operational task is abhorrent. As a contract network engineer, I tend to move around a bit. I get to work in lots of different places with lots of different people which is quite fun. Recently, I was asked to…

I love to lab. One of the problems of running anything in a 'lab' environment, however, is that it can be a bit too clinical. Traffic generation can become a chore. Earlier this week, I was using Vagrant to spin up some vSRX labs on…

As network engineers, I think it's fair to say we like to try and spend our time making a difference? Despite being considered the 'bread and butter' of the Service Provider world, provisioning and decommissioning are two areas that can still demand our attention. More…

PROBLEM: Swansea, Newport and Cardiff subscribers have been, temporarily, terminated on vACX hardware at those sites. The vACX routers are typically used for mobile backhaul and generally don't have the 'grunt' to terminate subscribers. They don't support per-unit-scheduling, for example. We need to get them…

I was recently asked to set up a LAN extension for a customer. After a spot of research, I was very impressed by this particular method which I've illustrated below. Based on IETF RFC 4447 (Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance Using the Label Distribution Protocol). Layer…