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You now find yourself on a blog created by a CCNP R&S and Fortinet NSE7 networking nerd who 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.

Latest posts:


Python vs Go

Published 2026-03-14

2025 was the year I moved from Python to Go. I was developing an internal automation tool for work in Python. As I was reaching 10,000 lines of code I started to hit a few...

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Loopback Generator

Published 2025-05-29

I have been teaching myself Golang over the last year or so. A big part of my learning has been through a peronal project I call Gollenet where I build a model of a "large"...

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Ansible

Published 2025-05-24

I recently led a workshop to help my network engineer colleagues get started with Ansible. It's written as a handholding start-from-zero guide that I shared as a git-repo on Github. The workshop contain eight chapters....

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Firewall Cluster and EVPN

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 deployed...

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A case against Active-Active firewall clusters

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). My...

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