Introduction to Top-Down Network Design
Question 1: What are the main phases of network design per the top‐down network design approach? Analyze requirements. In this phase, the network analyst interviews users and technical personnel to...
View ArticleAnd, We’re Back!
After an excruciatingly long two week period without Internet, and more damningly, without CCIE study, I’ve finally been reconnected to the human network. Thanks to the great work at who were...
View ArticleHow to Remove a Flash Partition on a Cisco 2500 Series Router
If you’re building your CCIE lab and you’ve just installed a second 8MB flash stick in your 2500 series router, chances are you are booting up with two separate flash partitions of 8MB each, instead of...
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CCIE Lab Setup Complete
Having finally completed the build for my home CCIE lab, I am extremely proud to present it to the Internet! Having spent 95% of my training time on rack rentals, GNS3, and WebIOU while at my initial...
View ArticleSeparation of Control Plane and Data Plane in Performance Networks
Introduction In an ever-growing world of mobile and ubiquitous computing, a vastly increasing wave of new devices continue to be revealed, and sold in great numbers. Now, more than ever, we have an...
View ArticleCakePHP Venture
As I will be entering into my final semester of my undergraduate degree at Monash University in Melbourne next month, I find myself in the fortunate position of having to take a special double credit...
View ArticleCakePHP Development Environment
After much internal debate (in my mind) of whether or not to use a live server for development, or to merely develop locally, I have decided on local storage for the simple reason that I will be...
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Palo Alto Firewall and Cisco SIP Issues
Having just switched our corporate network from a Cisco ASA to a Palo Alto firewall, one of the biggest stumbling blocks was PAN-OS’ handling of SIP messages generated by Cisco collaboration...
View ArticleProject Prodigy
So I’ve started a new project… Project Prodigy. Essentially, the end goal is to create an all-encompassing, comprehensive Dungeons & Dragons campaign manager for Dungeon Masters of all levels. Yes,...
View ArticleCassandra: “invalid literal for int() with base 10”
This is a bit of an interesting side case that has to do with the Python interpreter that CQL uses as part of an Apache Cassandra deployment. I ran across the following error when importing a CSV...
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