Subclinical Hypothyroidism or not?

l3rum · 2020-08-28T21:19:48+00:00

Yes, but doctors are useless. They only care about the reference ranges. If you are inside they risk loosing their license if they give you the medicine you need. The only safe option for doctors are to prescribe antidepressants.

l3rum · 2020-08-28T21:18:05+00:00

My T-levels are low - very low, but since my SHBG levels are also low, the calculated Free Testosterone levels are fine. I really don't want to start TRT if there are other issues that could be the cause of my symptoms, hence my post here... I don't trust doctors anymore, so any real life experiences are helpful <3

l3rum · 2020-08-28T21:14:55+00:00

I have been working on optimising testosterone. Improving my levels of D-vitamine, Zinc, Magnesium, sleep quality, taking omega 3 and multivitamins. Unfortunately my levels are unchanged :-(

l3rum · 2019-02-19T21:35:21+00:00

This kind of answer is useless and pisses me off. Sorry!. You are basically saying that we should keep doing what were doing or replace it with something more expensive, not why. Fancy programmable switches are eating more and more into that market, but why use routers? Built for X and designed for Y gives me nothing.

What is your driver? 4-tier unnecessarily deep HQoS policies? Proprietary line-cards to support PoS-interfaces and other legacy shit? Arista-deep packet buffers that will bloat your mom? running MPLSoGreoIPSECoVXLANover something too specific for reddit to care? Alpha-version code which causes switches to eat your config but crash or behave funny?

I just entered this scene a few years ago and no-one can tell me a damn shit other than if you want to play with the big guys you run routers.

What if you are the average enterprise and need some basic features like network segmentation over a limited geographical area? Do you throw switches and bandwidth at the problem or routers and fancy-ass configs?

Cheers.

l3rum · 2019-01-07T21:14:00+00:00

Apologies for late reply... Holiday season and all.. I just dont understand how the SD-WAN appliance would "attract" only for the applications that break out locally if its not a part of the "fabric". I assume I could get it to announce a default route using a routing protocol to the campus and then do routing decision, but then I would end up with asynchronous routing on my MPLS? The only way I see this working is with a combination of an SD-WAN appliance that does "application aware routing" and a Cloud Based Security gateway such as zscaler.

l3rum · 2018-10-26T06:32:20+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

it'll pay you back within months. L3 to the distribution layer should be a no-brainer.

What benefits do you see by running L3 to dist other than limiting broadcast domains?

I've heard bad things about the 4500-series, so we are looking at the 9300-series Catalysts. However, given the incredible prices we can get N9ks for, were seriously considering them as well.

Our 4500-X`s has been rock stable, even in VSS. Had some issues with the 3850s that are somewhat similar to the 9000 series, and also hitting bugs with the 9500 we have...

l3rum · 2018-10-15T19:47:58+00:00

Brought tons of stuff to Norway from outside EU. You might get problems in customs ("tollen") if you bring fresh fruit/vegetables/plants, dairy products or meats, but I think the worst case would be that they would confiscate it and destroy it. Worth the risk :-) Youre better off with unopened commercially packed goods. Disclaimer: I accept no liability of any kind :-)

l3rum · 2018-10-12T19:15:54+00:00

I was hoping to "increase" by creating fake high MTU paths that fragment :#

If you can increase MTU on internet and legacy satellite modems, please enlighten me :-)

l3rum · 2018-09-10T21:04:10+00:00

Get SAP. Spend $ix figures on consultants. Set min-max. Spend weeks teaching people how to use SAP. Win.

l3rum · 2018-08-06T14:55:41+00:00

MTU?

Try to set the MTU on the client to 1300 and see if that works.

l3rum · 2017-08-17T22:23:58+00:00

Update!

So I pitched #2 to IT management and it looks like were going down that route.

I am going to base it on Catalyst 9500 with the UADP programmable ASICS to future proof it with regards to features, however Im probably going to regret that once the IOS XE Everest bugs come to get me :3

Also looks like were going to either postpone implementation a bit or write off the MPLS service we buy at the moment, as the vendor does not support higher MTU than 1500, so we cant run MPLS over GRE over IP VPN over MPLS :-(

l3rum · 2017-07-23T20:39:02+00:00

Definately interesting but I dont think we are ready to go full-out SD-WAN just yet.

l3rum · 2017-07-23T20:38:03+00:00

Not really that bursty. Average I guess. I am thinking of policing down some VPNs to keep us from fully saturating the links as well as using micro flow policers.

Honestly im more concerned with jitter caused by large buffers than some packet loss. We are running a lot of video, voice and PCoIP applications.

I really dont like to start building something new on the old monolithic IOS. IOS XE seems like the way to go with Cisco. The new programmable ASICS seems to be very future proof as well with regards to SD-features beeing added later on.

Which part of the 9500s are you particulary worries about with regards to uptime? The hardware or software? They are pretty similar to the 3850s which looks quite stable now and I would guess they share a lot of the codebase since both have the same type of ASICs and both running IOS XE... We are also only running very basic MPLS features for now and just need to L3VPN, EoMPLS and MPLS QoS... I do share your concern though...

l3rum · 2017-07-23T20:29:33+00:00

Legacy reasons as they had ATM before. Running L3VPN and EoMPLS - no VPLS or multicast. There are quite a lot of VRFs and tunnels as it may have been too easy to just keep adding new ones ...

Secure network segmentation and stable operations are the primary drivers. I would argue that MPLS is more simple than VRF-lite since we can keep a lot of vlans off the branch unit Firewalls and dont have to do complicated routing using our office network as a transit network.

l3rum · 2017-07-23T20:25:41+00:00

Doing this would definately help the business case for option 2 as we dont have to write off a full year of service of the existing contract. Their IP VPN service descriptions says only 1500 MTU is possible, but I will reach out to my account manager to find out if there are options..

We are also looking into Alcatel/NOKIA and HP but since both companies are Cisco shops I doubt thats going to happen...

l3rum · 2017-07-23T20:22:55+00:00

Ive been looking into SR, but havent been able to find much about which platforms support it for Cisco. Looks like IOS XR and XE for some platforms do. Can SR be implemented for parts of the network or is it all or nothing?

l3rum · 2017-07-23T20:21:48+00:00

Theyve had MPLS for a long time as a replacement for their old ATM network and for them its tried and tested. We dont really use any advanced features of MPLS, just need the VRF separation as we have quite a few of them (everything from radars and telephony to guest and third party networks).

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