How can i start networking/ widen my social circle?

I like doing business, learning new skills and making connections. I have many interests like art, reading language, sports, music and anything creative. I am active physically and mentally. I want to have a very big impact on the world. That's besides the point anyway. I just need to widen my social circle and area of influence.

Question on how to chose the right power supply rating for Nexus 9k

Think this is the kind of stuff that no CCxx teaches but comes from designing more networks.

I'm trying to put together a BoM and for the power supply for the 9k I see an option for 750W AC, 1100W AC. Aside from the obvious, what would be a reason to choose the higher power supply. Is it only if the switch is expecting to be very busy?

Who all is doing Cisco SDA? Does it actually work? Is it worth it? What is your experience with it?

Im curious whether the technology is stable enough for a full blown SDA deployment? I realize you need Cat 9k, DNAC and ISE to use the system and Im considering doing a POC very soon. What else do you need for SDA? What all have you see as major benefits and problems with the solution? What skillset is most beneficial to have when deploying SDA? I have a R/S background with a lot of VPN/MPLS/DMVPN overlay solutions and In hoping that background will help with the fundamentals. From what Ive seen on ciscolive, it seems like it might be ready for action...

Thanks for any feedback.

POE powered media adaptor

I have Fiber to the Home by ATT but NID is not protected by UPS. Does anyone know of Fiber to Copper Media Adaptor that is powered by POE from the switch I will be connecting it to?

Use MS Authenticator OTP for VPN MFA [help needed]

Hi,

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We currently have our Cisco Anyconnect VPN setup using Azure AD SAML authentication and ISE for authorization.

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However, one corner case is Sign-on Before Login (SBL), which does not support SAML auth. Basically when we send a user a new laptop they need to sign in to VPN at first turn on before logging in, to get onto our AD and get all the MS goodness pushed to their machines, a one time process.

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The MS authenticatior app has a built in OTP function, however I couldn't find how to get this to talk RADIUS with either the ASAs or ISE. If I were able to get this done, I'll just create a separate SBL VPN profile for users to use in this instance, which just uses RADIUS. This way we didn't give on MFA for this niche situation

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Does anyone know how to get this to work, or perhaps have a more elegant solution?

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-JJ

Packet Shaping Recommendations?

Well, another packet shaping company bites the dust - Sinefa has been purchased by Palo Alto and there are no plans to keep the traffic shaping.

Packeteer is gone, Exinda, etc.

This is a bit of a long shot (and an old discussion archived here): https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/6moqkr/looking_for_recommendations_on_a_traffic_shaping/

But does anyone have any current products for traffic shaping? I've seen this feature in a few devices like firewalls, but that's overboard for what I'm trying to find... just a shaper of some sort.

Thoughts?

I want to connect 5 or more switches/routers console cables to a device on my desk so can swap between them

Hello, so I'm looking for a solution for this. I have 1 console cable from my PC. That I want to swap between switches/routers.

I don't want to go the back of the devices all the time. I want to plug all of them into 1 device. Then I swap between the switches with my console cable in the device instead.

Sorry for wierd description. In school we had some kind of patch panel that were connected to this device that I don't know the name of.

Thanks for help.

What are you folks using for device images in Netbox? Any other insider tips appreciated.

Got a new datacenter build coming and want to be on top of documentation so decided to give Netbox a shot. Was just curious what method you folks use for images? Do you just snip images from the internet? Do you take pictures of the actual devices and crop and use those? Do you snip Visio images or is there a clever way to convert those?

Also any tips or tricks experienced users would like to share as far as navigating, maintaining, or just being plain more efficient in Netbox is appreciated. We have Solarwinds for IPAM so likely won't use Netbox for that now. I also plan to dabble with the Netpalm integration at some point.

AWS Direct Connect partner recommendations?

Anyone using Megapath or one of the other AWS DC capable partners? If so can you recommend one or not recommend one? Share pricing as well if you can. Already have services with ATT and Zayo so those 2 would probably be the path of lease resistance.

MSP connectivity with customer

We are setting up a remote office with 50 IT employees where we are assigned to provide managed services to our client.

We will be managing the entire infrastructure from remote office including SAP, AD, Network, Security, and Software development.

I would like to know how do you establish connectivity with your customer?

What are the best practices to monitor all systems?