Technical Tips and Tricks

Recently I ran into a scenario where I was presented with the following network topology: As you can see (from left to right), there is...

In this scenario, we are doing static routing, but we want the capability to provide fast failover in the event of an outage. We can use Bi...

On EX Series switches, you can configure firewall filters to monitor traffic between 2 devices. Let's pretend there are 2 devices (1 ser...

Next time you are on a Junos device, run the command show version and haiku  from operational mode for a funny output. Here's an example...

I recently ran into an issue when I was installing a new ShoreTel Phone System. The customer failed to mention that they were expecting the ...

Upgrading branch SRX's is a quite simple process. However, the steps get a little more convoluted when you need to upgrade a cluster. Th...

In my experience, configuring some parameters via the Aruba Networks GUI is a bit of a pain. I have found that doing certain parts of the d...

I recently ran into an issue when attempting to create a reverse proxy between the ShoreTel HQ server and the outside world. I thought I wou...

Recently I had an installation in which we needed to add multiple Polycom SoundPoint 501 phones to the ShoreTel Phone System. Since the guid...

I have run into an issue before when migrating configuration parmeters from one Aruba Networks Wireless Controller to another. To view pre-s...

I have run into this issue with multiple customers that have VMware vSphere 4+ and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. Many times whe...

Below is a sample remote site configuration of a Juniper SRX100 firewall along with explanations. I used this template configuration to depl...