Author Archives: shanewalradt

Introduction While I was working on my Masters degree, I wrote a paper called “The Death of Spanning Tree.” I went into great detail on Spanning Tree and its many different flavors and uses then went on to explain that TRILL and FabricPath were going to kill it off. Well that paper was written inContinue reading “Mastering Spanning Tree (attempt 100)”

First, let me start this by saying that everyone is a leader in their own way. Whether its by leading a group of people via assumed or granted responsibility or by actions. What I mean by this is simple. The first example is easy to understand. We all have people we report to, our bosses.Continue reading “Technician Vs. Management”

INTRO: I used a little bit of humor with the title because many of peers will read it and groan and ask “why in the world would you put you and your network through this hell!” Well, I have to tell you, after dropping a Splunk server on my network and letting it grab upContinue reading “STIGs: For Your Home? Really?”

If you read the previous post then you’ll understand why I changed from a Cisco router to a firewall as my gateway/firewall solution. A couple of notes on how I defended my network with the ISR. I basically used DISA STIGs to write two ACLs based on edge security. I used address groups to blockContinue reading “pfSense over ESXI 6.7”

Why I have decided to start this blog as a way to communicate all the issues and nuances I have faced and the solutions on getting my current network up and running. At one point, I just had the ISP modem and router combo but was limited to what the ISP’s router functionality. I haveContinue reading “Home Networking”