Matthew Mengel

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Stretching the friendship

It has been nine months now since I hung up the console cable and embarked on my PhD.  I seem to be unusual in the 21st-century IT world in that I have only had a couple of employers over the twenty or so years in the industry.  I left each of those jobs on (I […]

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Matthew Mengel

Matthew was a Senior Network Engineer for a regional educational institution in Australia for over 15 years, working with Cisco equipment across many different product areas. However, in April 2011 he resigned, took seven months of long service leave to de-stress and re-boot before becoming a network engineer for a medium sized non-profit organisation. At the end of 2013, he left full-time networking behind after winning a scholarship to study for a PhD in astrophysics. He is on twitter infrequently as @mengelm.

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Conferences: Go

It is slightly paradoxical that since I left networking for the student life I’ve actually been reading more about networking than I was able to during the last years of my working life.  Similarly, I’ve had more time to follow the goings on in the social media, especially when the big conferences were on. Over […]

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Matthew Mengel

Matthew was a Senior Network Engineer for a regional educational institution in Australia for over 15 years, working with Cisco equipment across many different product areas. However, in April 2011 he resigned, took seven months of long service leave to de-stress and re-boot before becoming a network engineer for a medium sized non-profit organisation. At the end of 2013, he left full-time networking behind after winning a scholarship to study for a PhD in astrophysics. He is on twitter infrequently as @mengelm.

The post Conferences: Go appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.

IPv6 at Home – Prefix Delegation

As many of you may know, I used to move packets around for a living.  I’m not doing that any more, but I’m still administering my own little home network and keeping my hand in.  After my old consumer-grade ADSL modem packed it in, I decided that I’d like to do something a bit more […]

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Matthew Mengel

Matthew was a Senior Network Engineer for a regional educational institution in Australia for over 15 years, working with Cisco equipment across many different product areas. However, in April 2011 he resigned, took seven months of long service leave to de-stress and re-boot before becoming a network engineer for a medium sized non-profit organisation. At the end of 2013, he left full-time networking behind after winning a scholarship to study for a PhD in astrophysics. He is on twitter infrequently as @mengelm.

The post IPv6 at Home – Prefix Delegation appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.

Farewell to Networking

Almost twenty years ago, I began my career in networking.  HP hubs and routers, no VLANs, one router PHY port per subnet.  From there I installed an ATM backbone using LANE in the venerable Catalyst 5500 platform, then moved on to GigE in 3750 stacks and finally to 10G Nexuses (Nexa, Nexi?).  I’ve seen WiFi […]

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Matthew Mengel

Matthew was a Senior Network Engineer for a regional educational institution in Australia for over 15 years, working with Cisco equipment across many different product areas. However, in April 2011 he resigned, took seven months of long service leave to de-stress and re-boot before becoming a network engineer for a medium sized non-profit organisation. At the end of 2013, he left full-time networking behind after winning a scholarship to study for a PhD in astrophysics. He is on twitter infrequently as @mengelm.

The post Farewell to Networking appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.

Professional Loneliness

Lately I’ve been bouncing some generic DMVPN questions off the twittersphere.  I’ve used DMVPN sporadically in tiny single-use cases before, but now I am planning to roll out a somewhat larger implementation with a dual cloud and dual hub, complicated by the fact that I don’t control the perimeter router at our DC and I […]

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Matthew Mengel

Matthew was a Senior Network Engineer for a regional educational institution in Australia for over 15 years, working with Cisco equipment across many different product areas. However, in April 2011 he resigned, took seven months of long service leave to de-stress and re-boot before becoming a network engineer for a medium sized non-profit organisation. At the end of 2013, he left full-time networking behind after winning a scholarship to study for a PhD in astrophysics. He is on twitter infrequently as @mengelm.

The post Professional Loneliness appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.

Fun With Unmanaged Switches + Port Security

I’ve just passed a year of my job working at a smallish non-profit, and one part that I really am enjoying is passing on knowledge to the front-line staff. This week, there was an interesting case, and I had to explain to my colleagues what was happening and why. So, I did a little demo, and […]

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Matthew Mengel

Matthew was a Senior Network Engineer for a regional educational institution in Australia for over 15 years, working with Cisco equipment across many different product areas. However, in April 2011 he resigned, took seven months of long service leave to de-stress and re-boot before becoming a network engineer for a medium sized non-profit organisation. At the end of 2013, he left full-time networking behind after winning a scholarship to study for a PhD in astrophysics. He is on twitter infrequently as @mengelm.

The post Fun With Unmanaged Switches + Port Security appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Matthew Mengel.