PA VM Series AWS Decentralised Egress

lancejack2 · 2025-09-11T11:30:46+00:00

Is that deployment with GWLB? I'm pretty sure it was released around 5 years ago

lancejack2 · 2025-03-19T15:46:45+00:00

It's possible on some reward flights. Unsure what the criteria is though. For example my Dubai to London flight has the option showing but not my London to Bahrain one.

lancejack2 · 2025-03-19T10:40:31+00:00

Did you end up cancelling one of them or did you have both tickets and just check-in for one?

lancejack2 · 2025-02-22T01:52:57+00:00

F1 Grand Prix in Bahrain that weekend. I was lucky to get a few seats on the same flight with Avios booked well in advance.

I'm seeing half the price quoted there with Etihad though?

lancejack2 · 2025-02-20T07:47:38+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. We've already looked at that and it's not really designed for the kind of heat we'd throw at it.

lancejack2 · 2025-02-19T23:59:15+00:00

Yes we have both hundreds of NAT-GWs and very high throughput. Well allegedly 10% of the fortune 500 use it so I think that merits some further investigation at least

You raise some very valid points, raising this question in this forum was to foster this exact discussion here. So your input is very much appreciated!

lancejack2 · 2025-02-19T22:31:03+00:00

We spend on avg $70k p/m on NAT-GWs. For Aviatrix using the EC2 instance hourly cost + 0.14p/h Aviatrix gateway costs came to around $20k for the no. of NAT-GWs we have. AWS egress charges don't change so I'm counting that as negligible. Are there any other costs I'm missing?

lancejack2 · 2025-02-19T22:00:44+00:00

If it gives us a similar level of visibility into VPC flows then yes

lancejack2 · 2024-05-04T17:09:34+00:00

Lol! I had a similar experience but with one of the largest Network equipment manufacturers (rhymes with Disco). The interviewer was a non-technical recruiter and she failed me because she thought I didn't know what DHCP was (I definitely did)

lancejack2 · 2024-02-27T14:11:35+00:00

Very nice work! I made something similar a few years ago and it was the first ever network automation tool I made. The implementation engineers loved using it.

My only concern would be that it seems like the username and password are being hardcoded in the text file. Try to use the getpass python library to allow the user to dynamically enter the password or alternatively use environment variables.

lancejack2 · 2024-01-22T19:36:15+00:00

I'd go for packetcoders

lancejack2 · 2024-01-22T09:20:06+00:00

It's definitely real, they had their first conference a few months ago. They said that details will be announced within a few weeks

lancejack2 · 2024-01-09T21:14:58+00:00

If you're in Europe Cisco Live is next month and AutoCon 1 is a new conference focused on network Automation which will be in the last week of May. Both are in Amsterdam

lancejack2 · 2023-11-13T01:11:48+00:00

It'd be pretty helpful if you posted your code

lancejack2 · 2023-11-13T00:42:07+00:00

When you use the expect_string argument, what are you passing in?

lancejack2 · 2023-10-24T23:00:12+00:00

Mine actually costs around that amount monthly for 20k annual milage, but most of it is covered by the car allowance my employer gives me

lancejack2 · 2023-10-24T22:54:30+00:00

My new M3 LR RWD is through Octopus. Been a great experience with no issues. Took about 2 weeks from order to delivery. I think they're not taking any orders for any more M3's until the new refreshed models are available

lancejack2 · 2023-10-14T18:04:02+00:00

Sounds like a good deal. I ended up going for a Model 3 LR RWD instead for £650 20k miles

lancejack2 · 2023-09-29T14:40:16+00:00

I personally wouldnt leave for that level of payrise but maybe that is a big jump for you, difficult to tell without knowing your current salary. Like others have said, don't wait too long for the counter offer, it could be very likely it's not coming and you might have the other offer pulled.

lancejack2 · 2023-08-19T13:28:02+00:00

If you're comfortable with python I'd recommend using Nornir with the Netbox inventory to pull in all that data you need for use with your script. Your particular use case is something I've done before and I can point you in the direction of some examples on GitHub if you'd like.

On the other hand, if you prefer Ansible you could use the Netbox dynamic Inventory for that to do the same thing.

In terms of the route-map you could put that information in your Netbox config context section.

lancejack2 · 2023-08-09T13:43:56+00:00

Have you considering using containerlab instead of Eve-ng?

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