2019: Literally everyone at work was telling me I HAD to learn Docker. Network Chuck was telling me I HAD to learn Docker NOW! My Google suggestions were full of Docker tutorials and ads for “thecontainerstore.com.” I really have been meaning to clean up my lab… Then it happened, I ran out of CPU cores […]
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My company had a couple of licensed Riverbed Steelhead WAN accelerators sitting around, I thought I would hook them up in a lab and see how they work. The idea was that we could use these at our remote SATCOM sites to reduce bandwidth and latency. The right hand side in the diagram indicates the
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A co-worker had a secure Cisco VoIP Phone that he wanted to use in remote locations. The phone had to connect to the call manager on our confidential company network. Normally we would use a small industrial router to form the IPsec tunnel to our servers and allow the VoIP to register. Unfortunately we were
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“I would like to access confidential lab resources and services from any of our remote sites.” That’s the idea I had. DMVPN seemed like the obvious answer as the Cradlepoint routers I had at all the remote sites were capable of DMVPN, even behind their cellular connections with private IPs. The easy answer here would
PassKey This project was born from an uncomfortable feeling I’ve had ever since I first clicked “OK” when FireFox asked if I would be cool with them remembering my password for my google account. That was quite a few years ago, but today, because I just can’t be troubled to remember passwords, passwords.google.com has
Internet, you first became useful to me as a knowledge base. A veritable wealth of knowldge at my fingertips. Yes, sometimes I had to “vet” the information I was recieving, but on the whole, you did and still do provide me with a whole bunch of information that I could not readily find through other
I think I’ll start this blog like a good day – a little coffee, reflection, and purpose. I always look forward to a good cup of coffee in the morning: I like the smell and the taste, but most importantly, I enjoy the time that it gives me to sit and just be. To reflect