Today I wanted to play around with VXLAN as I’ve never touched it and I had nothing better to do. This has been tested with the latest VyOS nightly 1.5-rolling-202403050022. First, I read the rela...

I was reading about Segment Routing, and I wanted to give that technology a try. I already had a GNS3 lab built with vSRX devices, with a basic IS-IS+LDP topology, running iBGP between PE routers ...

Over the weekend I had the idea to add a tab onto my blog, to show some of the statistics I collect within my network As I already run LibreNMS it was just a matter of creating a script on one of ...

Some context Recently I’ve been studying for my JNCIA-SEC certificate, using the Juniper Open Learning portal & lessons. However I always set up the labs myself on my own kit. I got to the IP...

Laziness is King I already had a semi-automatic way of getting the AAAA and PTR records to put on my zonefiles, from the VyOS router configs. However it involved logging in manually to each router...

Route reduction? Reason is simple. I have three small VMs (NYC1BR1, LUX1BR1, AMS1BR1) which have only 2GB of RAM available. Each of these VMs receive full routes from the VPS provider, and they al...

Why can’t I SSH to my routers anymore??????? Well, everything started with an upgrade to one of the latest VyOS Nightly builds “vyos-1.4-rolling-202306080317” on some of my AS203528 routers. fabr...

Inefficient Routing An important part of my (new) network is the integration with my old Linodes, on which I rely for the IPv4/v6 addressing for my authoritative nameservers, among other things. ...

The purpose So… Recently I have been faced with some instability on my wireguard tunnels from NYC1BR1, to the rest of AS203528. I also have a couple of VMs, “NYC2EV1” and “FFT1EV1” on Linode, par...

The Beginning. I have always loved building computers and making them run Linux and do a variety of things. For me, it’s the perfect excuse to get some hardware (we all need hobbies) and maybe lea...