Two things that really pushed me or inspired me to go corporate when I was teaching: Firstly, when one of my students asked "With the cert that you have why are you teaching here at TAFE..." and when one of my teachers said for young guys like you tutoring/teaching in TAFE should just serve as … Continue reading Living the dream
Month: January 2015
Feels like CCNA all over again
I believe I used the same title of a blog I wrote two years ago when I started my CCNP exam prep. It does feel like CCNA in a sense there's just so much stuff to cover but I don't know where to start. I am pretty sure I still know my basics, its just … Continue reading Feels like CCNA all over again
Road to CCIE R&S
Yes you are reading this right. I am about to embark on my CCIE R&S journey. The dream job of working for a service provider happened, It was really an awkward moment leaving my current job as an IT Officer after only 3 weeks. I had to do what has to be done. I told … Continue reading Road to CCIE R&S
Configuring cisco with NTP server and correct timestamps
As I was setting up the cisco switches at work with SNMP and syslog traps to send messages to my PRTG server, I realized a couple of anomalies with the network. There were a couple of flapping ports and upon further investigation figured some of them are just failing cable connections. However, I still can't … Continue reading Configuring cisco with NTP server and correct timestamps
Running Windows Server 2012r2 w/ Hyper-V on VMplayer…
Have you seen the movie Inception? There was a part there where they were doing a dream within a dream, which is typically what I wanted to achieve with my nested virtualized lab. I am running MS Windows Server 2012r2 as a virtual machine on vmplayer, however I wanted to play around with hyper-v. Considering … Continue reading Running Windows Server 2012r2 w/ Hyper-V on VMplayer…