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Junos Basics – OSPF

January 31, 2012
By Aaron Conaway

This isn't hard stuff at all. I'm sure there are a couple of cool tricks I don't know yet, but let's try anyway.

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Reviewing Goals from Last Year

January 4, 2012
By Aaron Conaway

At the beginning of the year, I posted my goals for 2011. How did I do? Not too well. I batted .500, so feel free to boo me.

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Junos – VPN Hierarchy

December 23, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

We all know that the configuration on a Junos box is very hierarchical. Sometimes it doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's all a pretty cascade of code. One of the big messes that I've found is the VPN configuration hierarchy; there are way more items to configure than on an IOS device....

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VRF-Aware IPSec Tunnels

December 12, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

One of the big things that I'm dealing with lately is VRFs.  I've implemented some VRF-lite stuff, but I've never had any practical experience with the full force of them.  I'm definitely learning here.  Since the blog here is really about my sharing what I've learned, let's go through something that came up recently...

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Bigger and Better Things

November 2, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I like to take a month or so off from blogging during the summer, but my CCIE R&S written studies pushed that back a bit. I've finally got my lazy self back on track, but it may just be for a few days since I've accepted a new job in another city and...

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A Little OSPF Story

September 12, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Here's a story from last week with little of no teaching value. I got a call from one of our business units looking for some routing help. We don't usually care about their production networks, but they were seeing some funky traceroutes, so I agreed to try and help them out.

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CCIE R&S Written – Epic WIN!

August 23, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

The wife and I had a romantic day driving several hours to a small town to take Cisco exams. If this doesn't get me some action, I don't know what else to try.

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OSPF and Loopback Interfaces

July 30, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I was studying via Google+ Hangout the other day with CJ and Rob, and one of the topics that came up was the idea of OSPFv2 advertising all loopbacks as 32-bit no matter what the configured mask is. I rarely use loopbacks outside of a lab and had no idea, so I set...

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CCIE R&S Written – Epic Fail

July 18, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I've spent the last month or so with my nose down in a book and my mouse in a Google+ Hangout window studying my rear off for the CCIE R&S Written. Too bad I didn't pass it.

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Frame Relay Notes – DE, FECN, and BECN

June 23, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

DE, FECN, and BECN

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