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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Heading home - Cisco Live 2008

June 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Sunday morning twenty two coworkers and I got off various planes bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to attack a week of learning, networking and having a great time. After a week of classes, and entertaining till 2:00 am each night, we look more like the walking dead.
Of course, it was all worth it. Some [...]

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Tags: CISCO · Networkers

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

Encrypting your backup tapes with Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME)

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

IT staff at the University of Miami are having a very bad week. They are having to deal with the fact that two million private health records were stolen from from them. While it wasn’t directly their fault that their backup tapes were stolen from a off site storage providers transport van. The responsibility does [...]

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Tags: CCIE Storage · CISCO · DC3.0 · photography · sme