by skufel | Jan 9, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network
Recently I went through troubleshooting of Site-to-Site Layer-2 link. One of the things we did during troubleshooting of that link was checking interface statistics for interfaces which were connecting two geographical sites together. Below quick overview how ot check...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network, Virtualization
VMware Workstation and GNS3 are two platforms which are very handy to test and evaluate solutions before live implementation. By default each of those platforms is separate, however both have components which allow integration. What that means is that it is possible...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network
This is simple Lab environment I built when was working on IPsec VPN tunnel between our internal network environment and 3rd party vendor systems. As we had some issues with establishing IPsec communication, to make sure that everything is fine on my side I start...
by skufel | Nov 29, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network
/etc/rancid/rancid.conf In this article you can find description of parameters in rancid.conf. By changing parameters in this file you can impact the way RANCID will behave, collect and process collected information. You can also define type of version control...
by skufel | Nov 29, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, Scripting
RANCID is a great automation tool which allows you to collect configuration from network devices and store in repository with version control (CVS or SVN). In this article I will show you how to install RANCID and prepare to work on openSUSE 11.4 with subversion as...
