Top Tools to make a Network Engineer’s Life Easy.

1.Wireshark This is the king of all useful tools for network engineers. A must have tool I was introduced in my early years of Job and since then it remained with me every single day. This is so useful that I can credit at least 25% of issues that I have solved till date to… Read More Top Tools to make a Network Engineer’s Life Easy.

IxNetwork : Using IxNetwork NextGEN Framework Configuring OSPF- Blog3

In my previous blogs I have configured basic IP connectivity between IxNetwork and DUT. Now In this blog we will be configuring routing protocols between Ixia and DUT which is ASR903 router in my case. If you have not seen my previous blogs already you can check that here Blog1 Blog2 . Lets get started… Read More IxNetwork : Using IxNetwork NextGEN Framework Configuring OSPF- Blog3

FNF (Flexible Netflow) : Cisco IOS-XE configuration – I

Netflow is widely used and very useful feature for network administrators. It is a must have feature for a network because it give immense about of details about the network traffic and its users. Netflow is different from basic bandwidth monitoring as it tells you bandwidth utilization per IP per application basis. So you would… Read More FNF (Flexible Netflow) : Cisco IOS-XE configuration – I

Wireshark : How to identify burst of traffic in network

We come across this situation a lot when we see drops in QOS classes and continuous increase in “Total Output drops” on interfaces but for sure our traffic never crosses CIR rate which ISP provides. This quizzes mostly every network engineer many times in their career. You would see something like this: Router#show interface ten0/0… Read More Wireshark : How to identify burst of traffic in network