Cisco Cisco ASA Packet Capture Having the ability to take packet captures directly on the Firewall is a lifesaver during any Network Troubleshooting. In this Suresh Vinasiththamby Mar 19, 2022 5 min read
Cisco OSPF default-information originate This blog post shows how to inject a default route into a normal OSPF area. In order for OSPF to Suresh Vinasiththamby Mar 13, 2022 6 min read
ISE 802.1X - Deploy Machine and User Certificates If you want to use EAP-TLS, EAP-FAST or TEAP as your authentication method for 802.1X then you Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 19, 2022 4 min read
ISE Cisco ISE CIMC firmware upgrade When I was looking to upgrade the CIMC on the SNS-3515 appliance I was very confused. I couldn' Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 9, 2022 3 min read
Cisco Cisco ASA Syslog Simplified This blog post focuses on how to configure Logging/Syslog on the Cisco ASA firewalls. Having relevant logs sent out Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 20, 2022 8 min read
ISE Cisco ISE Admin access with AD Account What if I tell you that only 3 out of 10 ISE admins use AD for ISE admin login (trust Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 11, 2022 5 min read
ISE Cisco ISE Patch Install Example Cisco releases ISE patches occasionally, like 3 or 4 patches a year for each version. The patches contain bug and Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 8, 2022 3 min read
ISE Cisco ISE Log4j Patch Installation CSCwa47133 If you haven’t heard about Log4j vulnerability, then you must have been living under a rock for the past Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 5, 2022 3 min read
Linux Raspberry Pi as a router using iptables I have a Raspberry Pi 4 which I solely use to block ads using Pi-hole. I recently came across Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 1, 2022 4 min read
NetDevOps Ansible with Cisco - Variables Prerequisite This blog post assumes you have a basic understanding of Cisco devices and Ansible. If you are not familiar Suresh Vinasiththamby Dec 29, 2021 9 min read
NetDevOps Using Ansible with Vagrant If you are not familiar with Vagrant, I highly recommend reading my previous Vagrant Introduction post here. Vagrant for NetDevOpsThere Suresh Vinasiththamby Dec 28, 2021 7 min read
NetDevOps Vagrant for NetDevOps There were many situations in the past where I had to quickly set up a Syslog server or a Radius Suresh Vinasiththamby Dec 27, 2021 13 min read
ISE Configure F5 TACACS+ authentication against Cisco ISE Overview You can use TACACS+ to authenticate and authorize users into the F5 BIG-IP system which eliminates the need Suresh Vinasiththamby Nov 20, 2021 4 min read
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 Suresh Vinasiththamby 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 Suresh Vinasiththamby 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 Vinasiththamby 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 Vinasiththamby 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 Vinasiththamby Jan 27, 2021 2 min read