IPsec Troubleshooting IPsec: Phase 1 Up, Phase 2 Down, and Other Classics Every error message in this article came off a real router. Not a textbook, not a vendor doc, not a J Jul 13, 2026 14 min read
IPsec NAT Traversal (NAT-T): How IPsec Survives a NAT Device Every IPsec engineer eventually hits the same wall. The tunnel worked perfectly in the lab, you shipped the branch router, J Jul 13, 2026 9 min read
IPsec GRE over IPsec: Why Tunnels and Encryption Belong Together Configure GRE over IPsec on Cisco IOS XE with IKEv2 and IPsec profiles. Modern and legacy configs, MTU planning, OSPF over the tunnel, and gotchas. J Jul 13, 2026 10 min read
IPsec IPsec Explained: IKE Phase 1, Phase 2, and What Actually Gets Encrypted Almost everything written about IPsec starts with a config snippet. That is backwards. If you do not know what an J Jul 13, 2026 12 min read
IPsec Site-to-Site IPsec VPN with Crypto Maps on Cisco IOS XE A site-to-site VPN built with crypto maps is still the config the CCIE Security lab expects you to J Jul 13, 2026 13 min read