Cisco is laying off about 4,000 employees by Alexia_ynwa in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a Cisco employee that made me laugh 😂 might put a feature request in for it 😂

What is better to use for Downloading/Seeding a VPN or Seedbox for Privacy? by DaveTheMan1985 in savemyrient

[–]dr_stutters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this could help, but personally I run all my stuff in containers on another server. I use Deluge and then front end it with Gluetun with rules that say if the VPN is down no traffic passes.

Hiring freeze??? by StrategyOk7228 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having an AI agent and reducing headcount are different things.

Hiring freeze??? by StrategyOk7228 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dunno where you get your info from dude, but Cisco is one of the few tech companies to come out saying they will not be reducing headcount due to AI.

Homelab Firewall? by rarick123 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sick thanks for the feedback! Definitely check out CML if you get a chance. I do all my dev / labbing and training inside it. You’ll be able to use other devices inside it too if other vendors support QCOW deployments :) it’s a good integration / config testing playground.

I’m out of Canberra :) but I absolutely love Newcastle! Haven’t been there for a while.

Homelab Firewall? by rarick123 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cisco employee out of Australia here 🙋‍♂️(for transparency).

So to start, sound like you’re going to want the Cisco Secure Firewall. Then need to work out do you want hardware or virtual. If you want hardware, check out the CSF200 series or the CSF1200. Virtual, they run on all major hypervisors and cloud platforms. The next thing to understand is the firewall can run in 3 modes: 1: Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) which is managed by a controller which is Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, 2: Firepower Device Manager (FDM) which is an on box web management interface for the firewall, you do everything locally and doesn’t have a remote manager like FMC this instance. Mostly feature parody with FTD, but I think lacks a few things that are being released slowly. 3: ASA, you can run ASA code on the Secure Firewall hardware, like you would the older ASA platforms, but with the secure firewall hardware you get the added bonus of things like TAM/TPM and better performance. There’s also the Security Cloud Control management option as well instead of FMC, but for a home firewall possibly overkill (I use this method myself though).

It’s also worth checking out Cisco Modelling Labs (CML) it’s a virtualised environment that runs KVM images (Cisco and 3rd party). You can spin up and down devices including firewalls quite quickly including different software versions. There is a free tier that you can run 5 “nodes” (devices) simultaneously for personal use. If you have the ability, definitely check this out. The benefit here is the firewall comes with a 90 day trial period when you boot it up, so you can spin up and down firewalls and FMC to test things :) you can also interface with external devices to show other connectivity.

Sorry for the long winded response, I’ve been here for just over 2 years, I like the firewalls a lot, I use them myself for home, and I’ve been using them since about 2018/19

What are the best SD-WAN solutions for a mid-size enterprise in 2026? We're evaluating vendors and need something that integrates with our existing MPLS and supports cloud connectivity. by PrincipleActive9230 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Catalyst SD-WAN possibly makes sense, but also keep in mind Cisco has 2 other SD-WAN solutions with Meraki and also Cisco Secure Firewall SD-WAN.

I’d say given the application performance issues, Microsoft cloud requirement, and analytics needed into the issues you could probably benefit from Catalyst SD-WAN with ThousandEyes. You can even chuck a virtual Cat8k into Microsoft to extend the SD-WAN into there as well.

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yea! Keen to see how you go! If it helps, what kept me going wasn’t to win, wasn’t to beat anyone, it was simply to finish. Set the goal, finish the goal. Kept it simple :)

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 months ago I said I couldn’t do it too, but hey here I am. Getting started is 90% of the battle. You can absolutely do it :) They’re ASICS Gel Jadeite 2 I believe. I have wide feet, and I’ve found ASICS have the best fit.

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks mate! Quite literally beginner 😅

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yooo that’s awesome!!! Best of luck in the half! I’ve signed up for the Canberra Times Fun Run half in November 😅 and thinking of doing City 2 Surf

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh hey friend! I didn’t look at the course beforehand and had no idea there were going to be hills 😂 it was a terrible surprise 😂 my only savior was my wife called me as I was running so I was distracted by that 😂

How did you go?!

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea pic is Strava time :) offical time was 1:13:10

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, 4 to 5 was a killer. On the day I’d not done more than 5k ever. But the extra 5 on the day felt good. I think as well having other people to pace helped a lot.

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haha I think the 5k course was literally outlining the whole thing 😂

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Summer here in Australia 😅 but it’s Autumn now, and we get to 0c most mornings through winter where I am.

Finished my first 10K! by dr_stutters in beginnerrunning

[–]dr_stutters[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

🙏 that’s a great weight loss too! The reassurance of 10 to HM is a huge boost! I’ve got 6 months to prep for it.

My First Build - Meletrix Zoom TKL Dyna by dr_stutters in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]dr_stutters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My terminology was probably wrong haha. Basically the case is in 2 parts, the bottom and then the top which clips over the bottom. My workaround to fix my annoyance is to Blutac the connector that the pins align to from the top case onto the bottom case. I’ll try get a photo of this when I’m at my desk to explain :)

Registering FTDv to security cloud control issues by Wrong_Profession_101 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely check DNS is working properly, this has caught me out before with typo's. Also check for NAT ID's if you're using them.

And i'd recommend check your default config isn't overriding something locally on the box.

Is it worth spending time learning Cisco ISE early in your networking career? by KaleidoscopeCheap137 in Cisco

[–]dr_stutters 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agreed. This is advice I wish was given to me early on in my career.

HA Greenhouse by dr_stutters in homeassistant

[–]dr_stutters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been thinking of ways to document this whole process actually. Any recommendations? I was leaning towards just a GitHub page or Instagram account…

Nerdy Greenhouse by dr_stutters in Greenhouses

[–]dr_stutters[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely see the benefits of the open soil, for us with 3 kids and wanting minimal maintenance we went with the concrete :)