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The Cats of LinkedIn
For a couple of posts in my “50 Days of LinkedIn” challenge, I generated AI cat-images with Grok. Here are they:
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Is there something like EAPoW?
At the moment, I am going through the updated 802.1X training from Cisco, and there it is: A term that comes up now and then: EAPoW for EAP over Wireless. Is there something like EAPoW? Let’s dig a little bit deeper. ➡️ Regardless of Ethernet or WLAN, 802.1X Authentication is
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Preparing for the Cisco WLCOR Exam (350-101)
On the 19th of March, the new Cisco CCNP Wireless 🛜 will be relaunched with the exams✅ WLCOR 350-101 (Core-Exam)✅ WLSD 300-110 (Design-Exam)✅ WLSI 300-120 (Implementation-Exam) It is already known that the WLSD and WLSI will be pretty much the same as ENWLSD and ENWLSI. But the WLCOR is new,
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Connecting the Meraki MX to the Internet
In a previous blog post, I described connecting the Meraki MX to the internal network. In this blog post, I go through different ways to connect to the internet. The internal connection is not detailed here; this is independent of the external connection to the ISP. Option 1: One MX,
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The different versions of IEEE 802.1X
At this year’s Wireless LAN Professionals Conference (WLPC) in Prague, I again presented a 10Talk. This time, it was about the different versions of IEEE 802.1X: You can download the presentation slides here: In this blog post, I have some additions to this presentation. The intro My initial animation was
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CiscoLive for Newbies
There are lots of recommendations on the Intenet for people attending CiscoLive the first time. Here are mine. Perhaps they are helpful for one or the other. Before the conference at home Before the conference in Las Vegas At the conference After the conference Are you already excited? So I
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O2/Telefonica and IPv6
Part 4 of my hope to eventually get IPv6 from O2/Telefonica. From time to time I asked O2 when they will support IPv6 on my Business-DSL line. These were their previous answers: 2013: You don’t need IPv6 because we have “complete translation” 2014: IPv6 will be introduced at a later
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How to connect the Meraki MX to MS switches
Connecting the Meraki MX to an internal switched network? Sounds easy and if the network is build without any redundancy, it is very easy indeed: It can get a little bit problematic if redundancy is added. If you come from the Cisco ASA, you have tools like routed interfaces Port-Channel
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Central Web Authentication (CWA) with Cisco EWC/ FlexConnect APs
Recently I had to implement Central Web Authentication (CWA) on a network that uses the Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller (EWC) on Catalyst 9100 APs. Configuration is not that hard, but there is some misleading information in the documentation. Although this blog post is about EWC, it is nearly the same
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AnyConnect VPN on Meraki MX – A First Impression
The support for AnyConnect VPNs is probably one of the most wanted features for Meraki customers. It was first announced at Cisco Live 2015 (at least that is where I first heard of it) and after no more than six years the first public beta (v16.4) is available. Lets look