Bringing Mike’s Blog Back to Life!

Welcome back! It’s been a while, but now we’re back on a fresh domain. If you’ve been following along, thank you for sticking with me. If you’re new, welcome! This is where I share everything about networking, Linux, and more. I’m a network architect and love diving into tech. You’ll find posts here about Cisco,

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Site-to-site IPSec between Juniper and Cisco through Mikrotik’s NAT

Since my company has been using Cisco and Juniper network equipment we have a lot of IPSec tunnels to remote branches. To achieve some sort of high-availability we have decided to implement one of the IPSec tunnels over an LTE network. To do so we bought Mikrotik wAP LTE kit to get connected to an LTE network and obtained a

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Making Home Lab. Part 1

Due to a lot of experience that I have with real networking hardware, it is not mandatory to have a Home Lab to pass CCNA R&S. However, I’ve decided that it could be extremely useful for my further professional development to have a lab at home. It is understood that there are two options: Option 1. Buy

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Cisco Certification

I have been around networks for over 8 years and I always have had a dream to become a CCIE. Now It is time to set the GOAL and to start my journey. So that I’ve started studying for the CCNA R&S exam and thought I would put my notes on this blog. It might be useful for me

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Routes via DHCP

Basically, this is a very old post. Originally it was posted in my old Russian blog in early 2012. Nevertheless, I hope it might be useful. When I was working in the University we used PPTP VPN servers to let our staff access Internet. Computers got default gateway from VPN server and it was a

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