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Busy summer & recertified CCNP

Been a few months since my last post as I’ve had a crazy busy summer/autumn and it will probably take a while longer until I get going again. Cisco has introduced their new revamped certifications ...

E-Bike conversion - Nishiki Pro Air BBSHD

Something as unusual as a non-networking post, but it was a fun project so thought I could do a short post about it. We’re soon moving a bit further out of town to a house so i’ve been eyeing an el...

NSO - Part 3

Let’s continue playing around some more with NSO. In the previous posts we’ve added our netsim-devices to NSO and managed to push out some simple config & tried rollbacks. Instead of specifyi...

NSO - Part 2

As we now have NSO up and running on our local VM let’s try and do some basic stuff like actually push out some configuration changes to our network. :) Cisco are nice enough to provide us with ...

Installing NSO

I’ve been wanting to test Cisco’s NSO for a long time now and finally had some spare time to try and get it up and running on a local VM. It’s free for non-production use now so go ahead and grab...

Netmiko part 3 - YAML

The last few examples of using netmiko hasn’t really been very scalable as the devices was provided as a list directly in the code. In this example I thought we could try out and use YAML for an in...

Netmiko part 2

A follow-up on the latest post about Netmiko where we logged in to our devices and did some show commands, let’s continue and do a very common thing in production networks with many devices - pushi...

Netmiko

I’ve been playing around with Netmiko this weekend as I would like to try and rewrite all my old bash- & expect-scripts at work to python instead (if I ever will find the time)… :) Just starti...

GNS3, IOU-images & VM Workstation

I’ve been using GNS3 when playing around with smaller topologies instead of booting up my R610 which is more or less like working next to a jet plane, but had a few issues getting it up and running...

OSPF - Path Selection with Non-Backbone Transit Areas

Pretty much done with EIGRP labs for now and started with OSPF instead where I found a really interesting lab regarding using non-backbone areas as transit. The traffic really didn’t behave the way...