My office away from the office

Today, I received my new toys. Since I’ve been spending almost all of my free time in my home office recently and my old Altec Lansing speakers were crackling, I decided to splurge and order myself a set of Klipsch bookshelf speakers and a mini amp.

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Production network mockups with dynagen and GNS3

Just a quick follow up on my previous post on using dynagen and GNS3. This one demonstrates the ability to mock up production networks for times when others are using your physical lab. Sure, you can’t emulate a 7600 or GSR, but the same principles apply for most situations (excluding platform specific configurations).

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Configuring Dynagen, Dynamips, and GNS3 for lab practice

One of the most useful (and cheapest!) ways to learn is to practice with Dynamips, Dynagen, and GNS3. In this post, I’ll show how I configure my environment – both for ccie lab practicing, as well as testing new configurations when other people are hogging the real lab routers at work.

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Mitigating DoS/DDoS attacks with Real Time Black Hole (RTBH) filtering

RTBH is something that I’ve been using for quite some time to mitigate inbound Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against customers. We are currently in the process of deploying an automated traffic scrubbing platform (Arbor Networks and Cisco Guards), but I still see this as an extremely valuable way to quickly put an end to an attack.

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