by Sajan Parikh | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
VPLS is a pretty common technology in ISPs to either sell layer 2 services or backhaul traffic to a centralized aggregation point to conserve IPv4 space; check out more on that here. How can I take advantage of segment routing but still deliver the same services? We...
by Sajan Parikh | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Introduction During networking field day service provider 1 there was a ton of talk about segment routing (SR) and ethernet virtual private networks (EVPN). One of the biggest questions was “how do we get there?” and while we won’t examine EVPN in...
by Sajan Parikh | Dec 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Introduction In a previous post, we talked about using Containerlab and ZeroTier to provide remote access to a lab instance. One of the things that was glossed over was creating the Containerlab images. As part of building the images, Containerlab ready Mikrotik...
by Sajan Parikh | Dec 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Introduction The world is strange today. Despite the Covid-19 crisis all over the world, most ISPs are fighting a battle to deliver more bandwidth on a daily basis. Work from home Online schools increasing content consumption All pushed ISPs to their bandwidth limits,...
by Sajan Parikh | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Introduction When building out network labs, often multiple people will need access to the lab. The main way right now is to use something like EVE-NG or GNS3 to provide access. There are 2 downsides to this method. The first is that your server is exposed to the...