BGP Clears: Soft Resets vs Hard Resets, and why are they necessary?
BGP resets are a common operational tool employed to manipulate exchanged routing tables and to
My Top 10 Handy CLI Networking Tools
MTRMTR (My Traceroute) is a fantastic diagnostic tool that can outright replace the more common
Segment Routing: Explicit Traffic Engineering Policies
We have a shiny new Segment-Routing MPLS core, and one of the many available features
Running BGP on a Linux server with BIRD Routing Daemon
In this post I will be quickly running through the basic setup and configuration of
Device deployments from Golden ISOs with Cisco's gisobuild
So, Cisco have an awesome python script on their github here, and at the time
Configuring your Linux Infrastructure for SNMP Monitoring with Ansible
This post will run through a simple one-off Ansible playbook of mine that I use
The Top 13 Essential Browser Extensions for Techies
This post will be a departure from my usual specialised deep-dive tutorials, and instead I
Automating ASR9K Software Upgrades with Cisco CSM
Cisco Software Manager (CSM) is an orchestration and management platform for Cisco ASR9K IOS-XR devices
Managing IOS-XR Linux Environment over SSH
So your shiny new Cisco device now comes with some added toys, such as a
Automating Network VLAN Deployments with Ansible
Rolling out new VLANs across a network can be time consuming. The Ansible playbook documented