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Microsoft NPS – MAB and Cisco Switch Configuration – Super Helpful Link
This guide is spot-on. Step by step and super helpful. NPS (Radius) with MAB on Cisco Switch Specifically: “hey dude! a couple things that hopefully will be helpful for you:you should not create a user account for anything MAB related; NPS has this covered – delete that user Youll need to create a CRP for…
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Fedora Workstation 41 – Blank Screen after dnf upgrade
Turns out this was the fix for a blank screen after upgrading a fresh install of Fedora Workstation (41) in ESXi. Video drivers apparently? VMware Fedora 41 black screen after dnf upgrade
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Turn off Sleep and Hibernation in Linux
Some of my VMs in ESXi were unreachable after a while – maybe this was the issue… Maybe this is the fix… Tecmint – Disable Suspend and Hibernation in Linux This issue seems a little more pervasive on Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop – even with sleep and hibernation turned off. So now – I’ve set the…
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Cisco 3650 IOS XE 3.7 Quirky Configs
Thanks to an engineer buddy – who found it in a minute – the typical “Copy Run Start” used to save configs doesn’t seem to persist through most reboots – and never through a power cycle. At least on the two switches I have – you can “save” your configs until the cows come home…
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VLANS in pfSense
A helpful video for building firewall rules in pfSense – which takes a bit of a learning curve. This one is pretty straight forward.
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WireShark Capture Filters – Ones I find helpful…
There’s no new science here – just stuff that I’m putting here because I forget where I put digital things – so – I’ll keep a record here to help me – and maybe someone else in the future… I’ll just pop them in here from time to time. Thinning out the results on capture…
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Realtek 2.5GbE Drivers and pfSense 2.7.2-RELEASE Firewall – FreeBSD
Another helpful solution – like – one that actually worked… Which is – you know… helpful… After searching around for answers and encountering several “solutions” to a problem – I figured I’d try to keep track of solutions that actually work as advertised. In this instance – my new CE edition of pfSense Firewall –…
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The quest for Network Observability…
It has been a multi-year journey to try to achieve some level of network observability that makes sense – and doesn’t require tons of hands-on attetntion to accomplish. The initial install – and compiling of apps from scratch – then configuring them – it just eats up so much time… And for a rank beginner,…
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Information Technology – Data Flow – The raging river…
For me, networking and cyber security are what I find myself studying in my spare time. One thing I’ve learned (it took me quite a while) is that the flow of information is much like a raging river.If you’ve ever been to Great Falls in Virginia, or on the Maryland side after a rain storm,…