by Steven Williams | Feb 23, 2020 | CCNA, CCNP, Certification, Uncategorized
I was working in a small manufacturing business doing a lot of Windows Server work when I began to explore the networking world. We were small so we purchased a lot of Dell, which included Dell PowerConnect switches. These were what I would call now a days “blue...
by Steven Williams | Nov 28, 2019 | CloudGenix
We have recently invested in a SD-WAN solution called CloudGenix. CloudGenix uses edge devices called IONs. These devices can act like routers and/or firewalls depending on your deployment design. We are currently using them just as routers. Due to security...
by stevenjwilliams83 | Jun 7, 2017 | Cisco
EIGRP has never been my favorite routing protocol, which means my knowledge of it is “enough to be dangerous” on purpose. Currently being in an environment that ran on EIGRP I am forced to learn this routing protocol and while playing with a lab in UNL and...
by stevenjwilliams83 | Oct 27, 2014 | Cisco
I have never touched so many ASA’s within a month in all my life! It’s great don’t get me wrong, they are a huge weakness of mine and any experience I get with them helps me in my career. I was struggling with failover the past few days, not really the configuration...
by stevenjwilliams83 | Oct 23, 2014 | Cisco
I have had the opportunity to configure and deploy about four ASA’s within the last two weeks, six if you count my personal ones in my home lab. I have really learned my around the CLI within the ASA OS, and no it’s not IOS, there are enough differences to drive you...
by stevenjwilliams83 | Apr 20, 2014 | CCNA, Certification
Who at Cisco makes these decisions? Does Cisco think their CCNA Datacenter certification is so prestige that they can charge $250 per exam? Not to mention your CCNA will require two exams, that’s right two exams! You do the math. Lets dive into this craziness of a...
by stevenjwilliams83 | Apr 8, 2014 | CCNA, Certification
So the time as come to renew both my CCNA R&S and Wireless this year. Where has the last three years gone? With this being said I find myself in a bit of a pickle! My options for renewal are to take the CCNA wireless exam or take the composite CCNA R&S exam,...
by stevenjwilliams83 | Jun 9, 2013 | General
When I first told someone I wanted to start a page that I could blog about my daily work projects and personal projects related to IT, they said “WordPress is it, it’s easy!” Well I guess it is easy if you don’t want to do customization to the...
