IP Services Embedded Packet Capture: Wireshark Inside Your Router You are troubleshooting a problem that only the packets can explain - a malformed handshake, an unexpected retransmission, a mystery drop. J Jul 12, 2026 5 min read
IP Services SNMPv3 in Production: Users, Groups, Views, Traps, and Informs SNMPv1 and v2c send everything - including your community string, which is effectively a password - in cleartext across the network. Anyone J Jul 12, 2026 5 min read
IP Services The IOS DHCP Server in Depth: Options, Classes, and Manual Bindings Most people configure an IOS DHCP server once, with three lines - network, default-router, dns-server - and never touch it J Jul 12, 2026 5 min read
IP Services VRF-Aware NAT on Cisco IOS XE Two customers connect to your router. Both, entirely by coincidence, use 10.5.5.0/24 internally. Both have a J Jul 12, 2026 5 min read
SD-WAN TLOC Extension: Sharing Transports Between Edge Routers A dual-router branch has an obvious problem: you have two WAN Edge routers for redundancy, but you may only J Jul 12, 2026 4 min read
SD-WAN Direct Internet Access (DIA) in Catalyst SD-WAN For years, branch internet traffic took a ridiculous journey: from the branch, across the WAN, to a central data centre, J Jul 12, 2026 4 min read