Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , VCP, RHCE, GCIH, GEEK

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Ivan Pepelnjak over at IOS Hints and Tricks wrote a post about DMZ VLAN leaking that got me thinking.
He writes about “the VLAN leaking myth” and how it encourages clients to utilize physically separate network infrastructure in the DMZ’s. Now first things first, I wouldn’t call VLAN leaking a myth. At one time it was [...]

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Tags: hyper-v · virtualization · vmware

Link Round Up - L2TPv3 FCOE Trill Wounded Warriors

May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I come accross alot of very interesting material each week, only some of which I write about. These are some links that I found interesting this week.
1. Layer 2 Tunneling Protcol (V3) static and hairpin configuration example - my buddy Rick was nerding it out in the lab and sent a great configuration doc for [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · DC3.0 · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · Green Data Center · MPLS · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · Technology · certification

Nexus 5020 - Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Cisco released an addition to their Nexus series data center switching line, the Nexus 5020. The Nexus 5020 packs 1.04 terrabit of switching capacity into a 2 ru top of rack chassis. Inside this chassis you have 40 10 Gig Ethernet ports, as well as modular slots that can accept 12 extra 10 Gig ports, [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CCIE Storage · CISCO · DC3.0 · Technology · Uncategorized