BFD, BGP and Dual ISP - Building Resilient WAN Connectivity on Palo Alto
How to add dual ISP failover to Palo Alto -path monitoring, AS prepend for BGP route preference, and BFD to reduce reconvergence from 90 seconds to sub-second.
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How to add dual ISP failover to Palo Alto -path monitoring, AS prepend for BGP route preference, and BFD to reduce reconvergence from 90 seconds to sub-second.
How to establish an IPSec tunnel between two Palo Alto firewalls and bring up BGP over the VTI - with full route validation and end-to-end connectivity between sites.
How to use VRFs on your core switch to achieve per-zone logical separation on Palo Alto.
Three ways to push config with Nornir - from a simple list of commands, to a config file, to a fully dynamic Jinja2 template with per-device variables.
Learn how to process parsed network data and generate reports and backups using Nornir automation in Python.
Learn how to parse raw network device output into structured data using TextFSM and Nornir. Part 2 of the Nornir Network Discovery series.
A practical introduction to Nornir — the Python automation framework that makes querying network devices faster, cleaner and more scalable than plain Netmiko.
No static IP? No problem. Learn how to expose a locally hosted service to the internet using Tailscale and a cheap VPS — no port forwarding, no exposed home network.
Are you trying to host a game server to play with your friends, or have you just started a self-host
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