by Steven Williams | Sep 9, 2022 | CCNP, Certification, Cisco, Cisco SD-WAN
After I had successfully managed to get the Cisco SD-WAN home lab setup and the CA infrastructure configured it was time to start configuring the controllers and vEdges. Again plenty of resources out there to help with this process so go search it all and use what...
by Steven Williams | Sep 9, 2022 | CCNP, Cisco, Cisco SD-WAN
RobI am about one year away from having to renew my CCNP for the first time. Renewing certifications are little different now than they were before. Today Cisco offers a few different methods to renew, this includes taking exams, writing test questions, or continuing...
by Steven Williams | Apr 20, 2022 | Palo Alto, Uncategorized
The last few years have really forced organizations to the remote workforce era. Many people were sent home due to Covid and will never return to an office and why should they? We as a nation proved for almost a whole year that we could be remote workers and still...
by Steven Williams | Mar 4, 2021 | Coding, VS Code
I don’t know about you, but I have a little OCD when it comes to spacing while writing code. I have been using VS Code a lot lately and discovered a few themes that I like. These themes display as “Dark Mode” because looking at white and crazy colors...
by Steven Williams | Feb 12, 2021 | General
I have been through a few hosting providers in my time writing for my blog. I have used GoDaddy, InMotion, and now Hostinger. When I first started a blog I used just the wordpress.com site and created something quick and fast for a place to basically save...
by Steven Williams | Jan 29, 2021 | GitHub
Have you ever drifted into a situation where you couldn’t get your repo up to date and keep getting error after error? Well this happens to me a few times a year and it’s usually when I forget to create a .gitignore in my terraform project folder. The...
by Steven Williams | May 20, 2020 | AWS
I have been self educating myself on AWS for a few weeks now with sites like Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru. I really enjoy both of these sites and feel their content is very detailed and very helpful. What I like about Pluralsight is the ability to pick a...
by Steven Williams | Apr 24, 2020 | Certification, Cisco, General
Being an introvert, it’s sometimes easy to stay home and indulge in home/family activities, but days on end can be challenging. While work as not stopped for me, it has stopped for my wife and school has stopped for our kids. This is great for them, but causes...
by Steven Williams | Feb 23, 2020 | CCNA, CCNP, Certification, Cisco
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...
