Note: Article written based on SonicWALL Gen 6 running firmware 6.5.4.7 This post comes directly from the field, hopefully it will save someone some time. I manage about 30 SonicWALL devices and have spent the last year or so converting from traditional site to site VPNs to tunnel interfaces with OSPF. This gives us the […]
It’s really an unfortunate experience when you find a product that you love, standardize on it, and then witness the company drive it into the ground. This appears to be exactly the case with Ubiquiti and their Unifi Wireless Access Points over the past year or so. Spend just a few minutes on their forums […]
Update October 23rd 2021: It’s come to my attention that with the pfsense firmware 2.5.2 (maybe before), Quagga_OSPF has been deprecated in favor of FRR. This write up is specific to 2.4.5_1 which is proabbly not advisable to run long term. I plan on writing a Quagga to FRR migration guide, will create a new […]
Hello, I haven’t posted for quite some time with work and life getting a little nuts, but I just finished a fun project that I thought I should share while still fresh. I manage about 30 branch office sites with SonicWall firewalls and we do not run GMS for a variety of reasons. As a […]
Hello, writing a quick post based on my recent experience implementing a pair of Nexus 3548 switches. To this point I’ve only had experience with Catalyst switches and while the Nexus OS functions similarly, there were quite a few differences that made going back and forth between the two platforms a little challenging. First, just […]
I had the opportunity last week to work with some Gigabit POE Cisco 2960 switches, an Avaya IP office VoIP system, and a layer 2 based Ethernet recording system. The recording system basically had two dedicated Ethernet ports designed to receive mirrored traffic from the VoIP VLAN. Tap interfaces is what I took to calling […]