I recently had a customer who was shipped a Cisco 4331 that somehow booted up with the Cisco Viptela SD Wan IOS (cEdge) instead of normal IOS. I suspect when they were setting it up they chose the wrong option
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty ANS-C00
The next one on the list – back to AWS with the AWS Certified Advanced Networking certification. This is a good exam to get some real networking core understanding out of AWS services, which fit in well with my background
Cisco DevNet Associate DEVASC 200-901 – the journey to SDx
Earlier this year Cisco released their new series of certifications (and updates) as per THIS POST. It was a strong move in the right direction for the future of Network and Software Engineers, to show what we needed to becoming
AWS to Meraki VPN Tunnel with Python Part3
The following screens can be used to check on the VPN status, now that the python app has completed all the steps and built both ends of the VPN Tunnel – AWS and Meraki ! In my case the EC2
AWS to Meraki VPN Tunnel with Python Part2
In the previous post, we went through the initial setup steps for the AWS to Meraki VPN: # Meraki info step# ———————————–# 1. Get MX public IP## AWS VPN creation steps# ———————————–# 1. Create Customer Gateway# 2. Create Virtual Private
AWS to Meraki VPN Tunnel with Python Part1
One if the great features of both AWS and Meraki is the support for third party IPSec VPNs. These VPN tunnels give you a secure way of communicating with your services within AWS or your devices and LAN behind the
AWS EC2 API access with Python
AWS has always had a great GUI interface, but the API side of calls is the programmatic way to work with AWS. AWS prides itself on having a rich set of API’s, allowing most (if not all) operations to be
AWS Cloudformation LAB Part3
In the previous posts, we succeeded in getting the Linux web server running via a template in CloudFormation. Now we want to add in support for SSH access from the internet to the Linux Instance. Luckily AWS has designed their
AWS Cloudformation LAB Part2
In the previous post, we used designer to create the LAB we wanted in a simple graphical way. Now we will go in to the template parts and add in the parameters we need to join it all together. In
AWS Cloudformation LAB Part1
AWS Cloud is so much more than just a cloud storage provider, something I learnt well during my Masters when for my final (capstone) subject in 2019 I wrote a paper on AWS and its emerging applications. I am presently