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I recently gave a presentation to the New Zealand Network Operators Group (NZNOG) 2011 conference on “Data Centre 3.0”. During my research over the last 8 months coupled with the fact checking I had been...

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RADIUS “Auth-Type” Attribute

January 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

The Intro One of the things I do regularly for my clients is to build LNS Infrastructure to take wholesale L2TP handoff. It is not uncommon to take these handoffs from several suppliers covering technologies...

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Exam Review: JNCIS-ENT (JN0-343)

October 22, 2010 | 4 Comments

As you may have heard, Juniper has been shaking up their certification program – and all I can say is “It’s for the better!”. In an effort to consolidate the disparate certification tracks (which were...

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Wireless Drinking Stories

October 4, 2010 | 1 Comments

I had a “peaceful” weekend pretending to study for my upcoming CCDA exam in a couple weeks. Trying to convince myself that I cared, I decided the best course of action was to watch a...

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Shout out: Junos Firewall Filters by Robert Juric

September 25, 2010 | 1 Comments

In my previous blog post about Juniper Training, I discussed how Juniper Firewall Filters were quite interesting and new to me because I have been using SRX since I started with Juniper equipment 12 months...

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CCIE BootCamp World Tour!

September 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

Living in Australia, I have gotten used to hearing about “once in a lifetime opportunities” and expecting they will always be on the other side of the world. This is a nice way of protecting...

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Exam Review – JNCIA-ER (JN0-342)

September 22, 2010 | 4 Comments

As a Network Janitor, I spend a lot of time mopping up other peoples mess!  When called in for a consulting job, it doesnt pay to be a vendor bigot. This is why we decided...

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Reflections on Juniper Training

September 20, 2010 | 3 Comments

If you follow my @networkjanitor twitter feed than you may know that I spent 3 days last week in training provided by Juniper and the local distributer Avnet. In the old tradition of “free training...

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CCIE Assault – Part 1

September 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

Im currently working on my plan of attack on the CCIE R&S and I need some advice. I finally finished my CCNP in June after years of putting it off (I first got my CCNA...

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Packet Pushers – Making my commute educational!

September 5, 2010 | 0 Comments

During my research into the new world of storage network and all the wonders contained within, I stumbled across a really great podcast – The Packet Pushers Podcast! I think the tagline of the series...

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