Update 20190819: The public instance of the Staticman API is broken with no clear line-of-sight on when or if it will be repaired. Reference issue #307. I am now running my own Staticman instance in Heroku using the suggestions from VincentTam. I am using the master branch and integrating PR #285. VincentTam did a good write up on all of these things in a few places: Issue #296 & VincentTam’s blog on hosting your own instance of Staticman....

I made this quick video as an “Ansible 101” type introduction for some networking friends that just wanted a high-level intro to playbook creation and logic. So, I hope you enjoy it and get something useful from it. Please feel free to comment with any questions you may have! GitHub Repo: Intro to Ansible for Networkers - GitHub Repo

In this post I hope to quickly cover how I use pfSense to provide easily reachable management networks for simulations within VIRL. Below is a list of the technology I use in this lab environment: pfSense SG-1000 running 2.4 BETA Cisco VIRL_ — Core 0.10.29.12_ VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1 Generic VLAN Aware Layer 2 Switching I will not go through the entire installation of Cisco VIRL. I am just going to go through what I do in my personal environment to allow the FLAT & FLAT2 networks to be routable to the world....

Quick Note All of the conclusions below were based off of my individual findings dealing with Vue and my cable provider. But, I used some parts of pfSense that a lot of people talk about and I thought it would be good to put it on paper for others to find. For all of the pfSense examples below I am using pfSense 2.4.0-BETA on an Netgate SG-1000. The Issue When the decision to cut the cord it was with much excitement about the upcoming experimenting with different content providers....

Quick Note I thought I would make a quick post about how I reset the toner counters on my brother HL-3170CDW. I find myself having to search for these steps every few months. The Request: I love my brother HL-3170CDW printer (CLICK HERE). It performs great and always works for us. The one thing I do not like is buying toner cartridges…and I have yet to do so! I have owned this printer since August 13, 2013 and have yet to replace the toner even though I use it regularly....