Hoo boy. I have been trying to configure a small mesh network for a fault-resilient office setup. In my network, I have a ‘square’ setup, two VMX routers, two Fortigate virtual firewall appliances, all running on top of ESXi 6.5 (two physical hypervisors). It looks like this:

I am always forgetting how to do l2circuits in Juniper, partially as there seem to be a zillion ways to configure encapsulation and VLAN handling, all of which seem to commit but seemingly very few seem to work.

This is a super quick note-to-self which describes how to locally switch (could simply be extended to LDP-signalled l2circuit over an MPLS core though) a point-to-point circuit, one end VLAN tagged and the other end untagged.

Note - I took much of the code snippet here from ‘Sruc’ on the RPI forums, but wanted to post a clear method that I know works. Cheers Sruc!

The eduroam network (for universities, researchers and highschools around the world) is a great thing. One login lets you connect to wifi access points all over the place, as long as you’re enrolled in or working for a participating organisation.

I hate when things change for no good reason. This week, it’s the interface naming of ethernet on Ubuntu 16. No more does it default to ‘eth0’.. It uses some other ‘ens’ style.. Garbage!

When playing with an Openstack POC recently, I nearly pulled my hair out. I am running a flat provider network between my compute nodes (all Ubuntu 16.04), which connect via  Cisco 2900 with an inbuilt switch module. The Cisco has gateway addresses for the dual-stack host networks. I was using native IPv6 and NAT’d private space for IPv4.