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RSSThis episode on Python for networking covers the lab topology we’ll be working with in VIRL, choosing a text editor, and basic lab configurations. Course files are in a GitHub…
READ MOREThis is a blog post that could’ve and perhaps should’ve been written many years ago. Knowing what happened in 2008 might only help very few with their CCIE journeys today.…
READ MOREThank you all for checking out my inaugural post on the Packet Pushers platform. I’ve been a long time fan of the content here and its pretty exciting to be…
READ MOREBGP Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) were originally specified with 2 bytes, giving us a range of about 64K total numbers. As the Internet grew, we needed more ASNs than the…
READ MOREWow, 2019 was a big year for the NRE Labs project. We had just launched at the end of 2018, so in many ways, 2019 was a year of growing…
READ MOREI am very pleased to announce that last week I did pass the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching version 5 and am now CCIE #50038 To explain the…
READ MORERavello’s Network & Security Smart Lab provides an easy and cost-effective way to set up lab environments for sales demo, customer PoCs, training, network design, development testing and upgrade testing…
READ MOREWell it has been just over 7 weeks now since I failed my first attempt at the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching in Brussels. On the way home…
READ MOREI have pseudo-learned and forgotten some IPv6 mechanics over the past couple of years. I have re-visited this cycle recently, so it seemed like a good reason to actually document…
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