You now find yourself on a blog created by a CCNP R&S and Fortinet NSE7 networking nerd who write about topics I find interesting in the networking world.
My goal is to give the reader easily digestible explanations of various IT topics, new or old. As my interests cover Networking, Automation, Programming and more I hope to bring a variery of interesting articles for the IT-savvy reader.
Published 2025-05-29
I have been teaching myself Golang over the last year or so. A big part of my learning has been through a peronal project I call Gollenet where I build a model of a "large"...
Published 2025-05-24
I recently led a workshop to help my network engineer colleagues get started with Ansible. It's written as a handholding start-from-zero guide that I shared as a git-repo on Github. The workshop contain eight chapters....
Published 2024-06-09
This article will cover three interesting problems I faced when deploying a Fortigate Firewall (FW) cluster in a VXLAN EVPN (MLAG) datacenter topology. The customer had requested that each FW member was to be deployed...
Published 2023-11-27
Over the years, I have seen more and more posts on the Internet from network engineers asking whether their new network design should use a firewall cluster that is Active-Passive (A-P) or Active-Active (A-A). My...
Published 2023-02-19
This article will be comparing MLAG and ESI for EVPN multihoming. Multihoming is the practice of connecting a device to multiple points in the network. For example, a server may connect to two switches for...