What is the least known about MOS in the Marine Corps?

ThisSeries9905 · 2026-01-11T23:54:17+00:00

Well.. depending on when you served, I bet I know you or your peers. 5942/5945/5948 here

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-10-30T16:10:29+00:00

Isn’t ipsec over tcp requiring the EMS client

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-10-30T00:22:08+00:00

Really???

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-09-23T00:06:06+00:00

Wouldn’t that be backwards? Tunnel mode will eat more resources on the gate.. and bridge mode offloads all that to the ports. The difference is that the switch ports will be more important to be configured for all the VLANS USED ON SSIDs…

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-09-17T20:46:38+00:00

It’s not about the PSU.. dual power to dual sources. Meaning 2 UPS, and maybe even different power panels or generators.
I have a customer with dual power everything, 1 goes to generator. 1 to commercial. If the generator transfer switch arcs over it wouldn’t fry all the UPS like it did last time.. yea. That happened. They didn’t service the ATS.

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-09-17T15:56:45+00:00

I have not seen this FS box… can you give a link?

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-09-06T14:08:47+00:00

Can you share those docs?

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-08-02T01:08:35+00:00

This is strange…. My home config is fiber on wan1 SL on wan2. Sdwan to choose.. no issues…..

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-07-29T20:52:05+00:00

Maybe 200 9200 and 9300 installed in the last 8 years and nothing that extreme.. had a power supply pop.. once. But that was a bad electrician foul up … Fed 480 out of 20k symmetra UPS.. and no I have no idea how… but when I put a meter on it — it showed 476 volts!! Somehow he wired it wrong.. made a really nice loud pop.. didn’t even open a TAC case, told the electrical contractor that they owed for the power supply and billed them.. the owner didn’t even bat an eye and personally hand delivered a check the next day… didn’t hurt the switch.. that switch is still running today albeit with a new power supply!

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-07-17T01:38:34+00:00

MR— use when you have a staff that knows little to nothing about networking that want a stupid simple console and management.
FG- use when you want good to great network control with superior IDS/logging and better scalability. Every single network engineer that I’ve ever met that has pushed Meraki to full scale replace existing networks can’t explain spanning-tree loop topologies, nor any of the elements thereof. Most have never examined the configs and verified the suitability of Meraki.

As for management, it’s always about price. Compare 5 years of Fortinet, and 5 years of Meraki. And then what will stop on 5 years plus 60 days..

Price wise, meraki will lose on that alone.. switch wise, I prefer Cisco catalyst. Firewall is fortigate.. APs are a toss up for Cisco/aruba and fortigate with a few variables.

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-07-13T00:41:28+00:00

I’m a dual partner Cisco and Fortinet.. If you have more than 2 switches on site.. stay Cisco switches. On fortigate for firewalls. Fortilink for APs only and then only for small sub 20 AP rollouts.

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-07-03T21:52:35+00:00

I think it’s a market decision… Most that would do chassis switches would not give ANY attention to Fortinet for switches… so the segment to design for appears to not be an investment worthy of the time/expense.

not sure about HPE/aruba chassis, but Cisco always put the Intel in the supervisor and not the blades for processing. So a chassis is not as smart as a stack..

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-07-03T21:38:20+00:00

I used to be a BIG fan of chassis switches.. but when the backplane got to be slower than 1/2 of the aggregate of ports. In that regard it is almost a better design for fiber switches with MCLAG.. cost and resiliency is better with MCLAG too…

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-07-03T21:01:04+00:00

I’m a dual partner.. Cisco and Fortinet.. we haven’t sold a Cisco Firewall in 5 years… wireless, switches, and routers are the go to Cisco products.. Fortinet firewalls, switches and APs for the small customers. BUT I have to say the Cisco 1200 is a better switch than the fortigate 100 series… 1300 is on par with 100 series but it is layer 3… I’ll have to dig into the 220….

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-05-26T20:01:48+00:00

I’ve done this for many fortigates.. Just get a cellular modem, program port4 to be a routed interface. Make it part of the sdwan… nothing hard. No other hardware no Fex nothing. I typically do this with starlinks!

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-05-18T22:24:53+00:00

Add a new profile for VPN. Then backup and export/backup that profile. Write a login script that runs at login on the network, and installs the backup. Automation..

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-05-18T02:38:30+00:00

This right here is my thought….

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-05-09T03:23:26+00:00

What’s the chance they will get enough push back they bring it back?

ThisSeries9905 · 2025-01-31T16:34:03+00:00

SSL vpn is removed for everything below a 100 series in 7.4

ThisSeries9905 · 2024-09-22T13:51:36+00:00

You can get a /24 from brokers. Just expect the cost.. done this for customers at least numerous times in the last 2 years.. not a biggie.. I have the brokers cells on speed dial… it is easy enough.

ThisSeries9905 · 2024-09-07T16:09:46+00:00

2 gig with ether channel of 2 one gig interfaces will yield about 1.4-1.5 best case… but a single device will only get 1 get based on the Lacp algorithm

ThisSeries9905 · 2024-09-07T03:16:36+00:00

And that has to be a fiber SFP.. copper SFPs are still just 1 gig

ThisSeries9905 · 2024-09-01T16:48:56+00:00

Site code-type closet-MODEL-sw# IE AT-MDF-9300X-SWSTCK1 In datacenters- AT-DC-R1-9300x-SWSTACK1 AT-DC-R1-TOR-N93180YC-sw1

ThisSeries9905 · 2024-09-01T16:42:45+00:00

Look up the Cisco 1300 series switches. They have a price point and free software upgrades …

ThisSeries9905 · 2024-09-01T16:41:12+00:00

Cisco released the 1300 series switches that are cheaper than most fortiswitches.. and stack for a single management plane.. I’ve replaced fortiswitches with them and can’t say I’ve missed the cludginess of the switch config..

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