You now find yourself on a blog created by a CCNP R&S and Fortinet NSE7 networking nerd who decided to start a blog where I write about topics I find interesting in the networking world.
My goal is to give the reader easily digestible explanations of various IT topics, new or old. As my interests cover Networking, Automation, Programming and more I hope to bring a variery of interesting articles for the IT-savvy reader.
Published: 2024-06-09
This article will cover three interesting problems I faced when deploying a Fortigate Firewall (FW) cluster in a VXLAN EVPN (MLAG) datacenter topology. The customer had requested that each FW member was to be d...
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Published: 2023-11-27
Over the years, I have seen more and more posts on the Internet from network engineers asking whether their new network design should use a firewall cluster that is Active-Passive (A-P) or Active-Active (A-A). ...
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Published: 2023-02-19
This article will be comparing MLAG and ESI for EVPN multihoming. Multihoming is the practice of connecting a device to multiple points in the network. For example, a server may connect to two switches for redu...
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Published: 2023-01-27
One of the strengths of VXLAN is that you can distribute the default gateway IP-address across multiple nodes for active-active forwarding. This is a massive leap forward when compared to active-passive HSRP an...
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Published: 2023-01-13
Updated: 2023-01-20
This article will cover the main feature and selling point of VXLAN, tunneling Ethernet frames over a routed network to create L2VPN topologies. I will focus on Arista vEOS in my lab topology as it is the vendo...
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