NXOS Simple IPv6 BGP Peering
cooperlees It took me far to long to find out how to config this, so I'm sharing it to be more searching on the Internets. Scenario: - NXOS BGP 'upsteam' /…
Python pip ‘editable’ installing
From time to time I get asked (and I even have to ask a coworker) for the best way to install a Python modules (especially ones with entry points) into…
BitBucket + hg + branch merges
Ever have to update/merge a PR on BitBucket with Mercurial? I couldn't find documentation anywhere, so doing so here: hg up BOOKMARK_NAME hg merge -r REV If EDITOR is not…
Python 3.7 – The best Python Release Ever!
Especially because: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/47320a652e872003f3dd3a9db4243067b09dd316#diff-c6a3fa0ad7b17f8e32f340835a4e5353 🙂
GitHub + Rebasing from upstream/master to origin/master
So, every now and then on a PR I need to rebase and fix things so I can retest etc. - I always forget this so blogging it to remember.…
IPv6 Tacacs+ Support (tac_plus)
Recently @ Facebook we found that we required IPv6 access to TACACS for auth (AAA) for the majority of our production Network Equipment. Tacacs+ (tac_plus) is an old daemon released…
30 Levels of NAT Lab #2 – Juniper SRX100s
Well, I had the chance again to play with lots of Firewalls, so I did. A customer had ordered > than 30 SRX100s for clustered branch deployments so I took…
RANCID with Junos Read-Only User
Here is the setting for a Junos device to create a user with read only privileges to allow RANCID to work. set system login class RANCID permissions access set system…
Updating Juniper QFabric
The follow post shows output obtained and the upgrade process performed recently on a clients QFabric system. This output was captured updating from 12.2X30 to 12.2X50 Junos release via a…
Juniper SRX Chassis Cluster RG0 Nagios Check
I was required to check (as this customer did not have a trap collector) which node was active for redundancy group 0 on a SRX cluster. So I thought I…