I’m currently busy with a project in my home lab that requires a machine on my test LAN to be issuing IP addresses. I figured I’d use an LXC container on my Ubuntu Desktop because it’s lightweight and a convenient way to contain DHCP server software without having to install […]
networking
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Greetings mere mortal! In this video I fast track you through configuring IPSEC VPN connections from two local Fortigate Firewalls to a central VNET gateway inside of Microsoft Azure.
In this post, I look at capturing network packets at the Hypervisor layer instead of inside the Virtual machines or at the network layer. I found myself in this situation when I was asked to troubleshoot an issue where I didn’t have access to the VM nor the network device. […]
I’m very grateful for the fact that I recently got to put together a functional lab that enables me to build, and test projects and make them available on the public internet if I so wish. In July 2018 I jokingly said to my boss I wanted to buy two […]
Recently I had to add an additional interface to a VM cluster post deployment. For the most part it’s pretty well documented but can get confusing depending on the configuration. Unfortunately mistakes were made however a lot was learnt. The Exadata in question was an X6-2 Quarter rack, with 2x […]