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MikroTik CHR – Breaking the 100G barrier
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,...
Network Modeling: Segmented Lab access with Containerlab and ZeroTier
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...
Migrating from fabricpath to EVPN/VxLAN
by Sajan Parikh | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Introduction Do you have a 3 tier, switched, or vendor proprietary data center design? Does it rely on spanning tree or proprietary solutions to eliminate spanning tree? Not sure how to migrate to a new architecture without serious downtime? If you answered yes to any...
Utilizing BGP Communities for traffic steering – part 1: Firewalls
by Sajan Parikh | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Overview: I typically spend more time in the enterprise data center than most of our team members and this comes with its own unique set of problems. One discussion that seems to never fail to come up is "where do I put the Firewalls (FWs)?". That is typically...
Let’s talk MPLS-VPLS, part 1 – use cases
by Sajan Parikh | Jul 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hey guys, today we'll be taking a look at what are the main reasons that MPLS - and in particular VPLS - is a useful technology tool to get traffic from point A to point Z. There's really 2 major use cases that I deal with regularly: IPv4 conservation and L2VPN. Why...