Cisco APC Radius authentication with Cisco ISE In this blog, I will show you how to use Cisco ISE to authenticate users into APC Network-enabled devices such Suresh Vina Nov 3, 2021 2 min read
ISE Cisco ISE config-backup failure Symptom Do I like Cisco ISE, yes? Do I like fixing never-ending ISE bugs, absolutely not? When you try to Suresh Vina Nov 3, 2021 2 min read
NetDevOps Using Python to resolve multiple hostnames to IP addresses As a Network Engineer, I work with IP addresses all day long. But most of the time I am handed Suresh Vina Oct 22, 2021 4 min read
Terraform Terraform Data Sources "Have you ever tried to find a specific book in a library without the help of the librarian or Suresh Vina Jul 8, 2021 3 min read
Cisco Cisco FMC HTTPS Certificate with OpenSSL Problem You want to install HTTPS certificate for the Cisco FirePower Management Centre (FMC) Solution I already have an Internal Suresh Vina Jan 27, 2021 2 min read
NetDevOps Network Configuration Backup with Ansible and Git The typical way you would perform Network Configuration Backup is by using NCM software such as Solarwinds NCM, Rancid, Oxidized Suresh Vina Nov 29, 2020 6 min read
NetDevOps Ansible with Cisco - Part 2 ios_config module Cisco IOS configurations use a simple block indent file syntax for segmenting configuration into sections. Ansible ios_config module provides Suresh Vina Nov 13, 2020 8 min read
NetDevOps Ansible with Cisco - Part 1 Installation and basic set-up Hello readers! I have updated this blog post with new and relevant information. I encourage you to check out the Suresh Vina Nov 7, 2020 13 min read
Juniper Configuring PIM AnyCast RP with MSDP on Juniper What problem does AnyCast RP solves? Having a single active rendezvous point (RP) is a single point of failure. Anycast Suresh Vina Oct 13, 2020 7 min read
Juniper Juniper Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) In the previous articles, we have discussed about PIM Dense Mode and PIM Sparse Mode. Both protocols use IGMPv2 and Suresh Vina Oct 10, 2020 7 min read
Juniper Juniper Multicast PIM Sparse Mode PIM Sparse mode uses an 'explicit join' approach whereas PIM Dense mode uses 'implicit join' approach. Suresh Vina Oct 7, 2020 10 min read
Juniper Juniper Multicast PIM Dense Mode Multicast Overview IP has three fundamental types of addresses: unicast, broadcast, and multicast. A unicast address is used to send Suresh Vina Sep 29, 2020 8 min read
Juniper Configuring Junos OSPF Stub and NSSA Areas In the previous post, we discussed Type-4 and Type-5 LSAs. This article focuses on Stub and NSSA areas. I highly Suresh Vina Aug 23, 2020 9 min read
Juniper OSPF Type-4 & Type-5 LSAs - Junos In the previous posts, we discussed Type-1, Type-2 and Type-3 LSAs. This article focuses on Type-4 and Type-5 LSAs. This Suresh Vina Aug 23, 2020 5 min read
Cisco Cisco %Error opening ftp://x.x.x.x (Incorrect Login/Password) Problem When attempting to copy file via FTP to a Cisco Switch you see the following error cisco-3850#copy ftp Suresh Vina Aug 14, 2020 1 min read
Juniper Juniper OSPF Route Summarization In the previous posts, we discussed about Type-1, Type-2 and Type-3 LSAs. This article focuses on OSPF Route summarization. I Suresh Vina Jul 30, 2020 5 min read
Juniper OSPF Type-3 Summary LSAs In the previous post, we discussed about the single-area OSPF and Type-1, Type-2 LSAs. This article focuses on multi-area OSPF Suresh Vina Jul 29, 2020 7 min read
Juniper Junos single-area OSPF In this blog post, I will go through Junos Single area OSPF configuration and verification using Juniper vLAB Sandbox. Interfaces Suresh Vina Jul 27, 2020 13 min read