When chatting with both colleagues and customers about BGP path manipulations, I’ve picked up on something interesting – the concept of admin distance can often lead to some head-scratching moments.
So, in this blog post, I’m going to take you through a few links and hands-on labs. Our goal? To unravel the mysteries surrounding admin distance and its pivotal role in the BGP best path selection process. Let’s dive in!
I was recently engaged in a troubleshooting session pertaining to Azure Network Load Balancers (NLBs).
The assistance was sought by cloud engineers seeking deeper insights into the operational characteristics of NLBs. The findings are outlined below.
On the second day of Network Field Day 31 BackBox presented their automation tool.
On April 25th 2023 Google Cloud has an incident involving a datacenter. The incident impacted multiple zones.
If this sounds strange, it is because not all cloud zones are created equal.
I’m happy to be part again of the Tech Field Day delegates attending Networking Field Day 31 on April 12-13, 2023.
Ten years ago I passed the CCIE RS lab exam , now renamed CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure .
This year again I had the privilege and pleasure to attend one of the best events for networkers: Cisco Live Europe 2023 in Amsterdam.
It has been more than 20 years since my last Microsoft certification exam. Windows NT4 was very common, Windows 2000 was cutting edge, and my first job was to migrate some SMEs in my region from the former to the latter.
My goal at the time was to get the famous MCSE , but I never had the chance to finish the certificaton track, stopping after a couple of exams.
Then I fell in love with networking.
We don’t install all our servers in the same DC. But what about clouds? Would you trust one Cloud Server Provider for all your applications?
This is the premise of Multicloud.
For $reasons it happened a few times that I needed to renumber a VLAN in a campus or DC network.
Networking and Kubernetes, first steps in the cloud-native world.
I’ve renewed my CCIE for 3 more years, and learned something along the way.
