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QOS Your Life

So as we’re all busy network professionals, I’m sure you’ve ran into the problem of a work-life balance. I personally know lots of engineers that have burned out at one time, or their family life has suffered, and their kids barely know them. Now granted these are extreme case scenarios, but it could happen to […]

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QOS Your Life

So as we’re all busy network professionals, I’m sure you’ve ran into the problem of a work-life balance. I personally know lots of engineers that have burned out at one time, or their family life has suffered, and their kids barely know them. Now granted these are extreme case scenarios, but it could happen to […]

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Career Ladder, Salaries, and Retaining Top Talent

Reflecting on the recent PacketPushers podcasts on certifications and consulting life, I’m trying to document ideal conditions to train and retain top talent. (e.g. In the context of building a new consulting firm.) Please leave a comment to let me know what I’ve left out or gotten wrong. Establish a career ladder that clearly establishes […]

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Career Ladder, Salaries, and Retaining Top Talent

Reflecting on the recent PacketPushers podcasts on certifications and consulting life, I’m trying to document ideal conditions to train and retain top talent. (e.g. In the context of building a new consulting firm.) Please leave a comment to let me know what I’ve left out or gotten wrong. Establish a career ladder that clearly establishes […]

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Junos Conditional Route Advertisement

University network borders tend to be more complicated than those in similarly sized corporate organizations. I recently helped a peer from another university transition from IOS to Junos for border routing. While most of the configuration was straightforward, he required a unique  conditional routing policy. Since I’ve been working with Junos for many years (starting […]

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Junos Conditional Route Advertisement

University network borders tend to be more complicated than those in similarly sized corporate organizations. I recently helped a peer from another university transition from IOS to Junos for border routing. While most of the configuration was straightforward, he required a unique  conditional routing policy. Since I’ve been working with Junos for many years (starting […]

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Puppet and Powershell DSC

TL;DR: Your servers are no longer servers, they’re now just containers for functionality. Powershell DSC represented a huge step forward for configuration management on Windows, and Puppet’s DSC module compounds that step for both configuration management on Windows and the usefulness of Puppet.  This Puppet module means that you can now effectively control both Windows […]

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Puppet and Powershell DSC

TL;DR: Your servers are no longer servers, they’re now just containers for functionality. Powershell DSC represented a huge step forward for configuration management on Windows, and Puppet’s DSC module compounds that step for both configuration management on Windows and the usefulness of Puppet.  This Puppet module means that you can now effectively control both Windows […]

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