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Using sipcalc The Great and Powerful Subnet Calculator

In the CCNA days we all had to learn how to subnet and work with binary. This was either on paper or in your head if you were quick enough to do it. This really is an invaluable skill when speaking,...

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Device Naming Conventions – What’s in a Name?

Choosing a device hostname seems trivial to say the least. However, from multiple design meetings, this is a topic that tends to drag on. Everyone has a preference, and opinion or just set in the...

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Away from WordPress to Jekyll on Github

Recently I seriously considered shutting down the blog. I wasn’t writing as often as I wanted. It was costing money to keep up, the free services are really sub-par from what I’ve experienced. It...

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From VIRL to IOU and Back

When VIRL first came out everyone jumped on the bandwagon, including myself. Some of us have had it before it was officially released to the public. Cisco’s VIRL is really a good piece of software,...

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Sorting Bookmarks in Safari for Mac OS X

If you’re anything like me, then you may just be a bit OCD or ANAL when it comes to some things. One of those things is, I like my bookmarks/favorites in alphabetical order with folders sorted...

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Learn to Code

Background I took a few C++ and Visual Basic courses back in high shcool. Now, at that time, they didn’t teach the STL (Standard Template Library), I remember using conio.h allot, not really...

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Parsing a Routing Table with Python – Part 1

It’s all in the API’s, well, not exactly, not everything you want to get or parse is handed down in a nicely formatted XML file or JSON format. These file structures translate to some type of data...

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Parsing a Routing Table with Python – Part 2

In the previous article (they’re split to make them easier to read) I talked about the theory and representation. How a properly formatted data structure and a non-formatted data structure look like....

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Blogs of Interests 2014-03-14

Working from home? Useful insights from Ethan Banks on his methodology and process of working from home. You can find ethan on Twitter @ecbanks. Deploying VXLAN or any type of overlay? Maybe just...

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