It's like clock work...around this time the seasons are changing..autumn colors are out, and the colder air reminds us that things are changing around here, embrace it! One thing that I've been working with is AWS Transit gateways, a common theme this year is all cloud! AWS Transit Gateways make it easier to move …

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I've been stuck in more ways then one this year...working from home indefinitely seems to be the status quo right now, and I'm in "tunnel" mode for most part. Most of these projects I'm working on all of common theme.. connect on-premise to more cloud resources! One way to do that is using VTIs. (Virtual …

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If you don’t already know, site to site VPNs can be a cost-effective way for remote sites to connect to HQ resources instead of a lease line like using MPLS or Metro-E circuits. We can instead use a standard internet connection with a static IP, this is usually cheaper than a dedicated circuit. Our next steps are …

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If you ever needed to hide multiple systems behind a single IP address you would use PAT. (Port Address Translation) besides using this to connect to the internet when using an RFC 1918 address, you can configure PAT for VPN connections. The benefit is the same, hide multiple systems behind a single IP address with the …

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I have ran through before on how to create a site-to-site VPN with Cisco SDM which sounds like a repeat but I thought why not bring CCP into light and since I'm studying the newly created CCNA Security (640-554) I figured let's create a tutorial on it. In this lab I am going to post the running-config of both locations …

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