Howdy!

Looking for some tips on staying sane during a 3 month project with early hours mixed with normal hours I’m about to start.

I am about to kick off a 3 month project where I will be replacing switches at all of our locations. Due to business requirements the maintenance windows will be starting around 3AM and will go till 6AM. This will be 2-3 days a week, sometimes 4 days a week, so I typically will be starting the week off with normal hours on Monday, and then come Tuesday/Wednesday I need to flip my schedule to accommodate the early start, and then go back to a “normal” schedule Thursday/Friday.

Is there really anything I can do to make this adjustment a little easier on my body/mental or do I just need to suck it up for the few months and then take time off at the end to recover lol? I’m already starting to absolutely dread this and it hasn’t even started yet. I’m no stranger to working weird hours but this is the first time where it will be going on weekly for around 3 months and I’m trying to mentally prepare for the fucked up sleep I’m about to endure.

Thanks!

Hi, newbie networking engineer here
in my workplace, we started to get troubles with the sonicwall VPN, and i want to make a proposal for a new software more reliable, which vpn would you recommend and which websites do you visit for reliable reviews and information?

Hi everyone,

I’m reviewing a network diagram for a hotel infrastructure and I’m a bit confused about the role of the Collect Switch 1 & 2 (both Sw-24). My questions:

1. What is the exact role of the Collect Switches in this design?
2. Why do we need them? What benefits do they provide?
3. Why not connect the Router Load Balancing directly to Firewall #1 and #2? Would that break something (redundancy, scalability, security, management…)?

I’ve attached the diagram for reference.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

https://i.postimg.cc/QdLdpnyN/Topo-nw.jpg

i work in a small company but things have been great recently so we decided to open a small warehouse in another country, we have figured out everything but this is our first oversea branch and we are really trying to make it as smooth as possible. the setup is great so far, offices and staff etc and the regulation side is good we are good to go but again the issue of internet connectivity. I was discussing with our IT team and they said we can internet from a local ISP at the new warehouse and manage the connection separately from our existing locations, to me this seems like the most easy and quick option to get us running but my manager insists on centralizing connectivity for easy monitoring, security and troubleshooting etc, well i see sense but again i am not convinced that we need that whole complex setup when we have few international locations, actually one so far. i am asking if we can really face any issues if we use local ISPs in our new location, do we really need global connectivity for now?

Olá colegas. Atualmente trabalho no NOC de um provedor local da minha região. Recentemente, me cadastrei em uma pós-graduação da instituição Hackone e me deparei com a disciplina de infraestrutura e arquitetura de redes e sobre o método PPDIOO da cisco. Eu sou muito problemático em não saber fazer as coisas da maneira correta então sempre pesquiso bit a bit de tudo, porém o PPDIOO não me parece ter muita documentação atual na internet e parece que ele está sendo descontinuado. Com isso, queria me certificar se alguém com experiÊncia no mercado em empresas de NOC ou de TI costuma usar essa metodologia para desenvolver infraestruturas de redes para atender demandas de empresas dos mais diversos tamanhos.

Entre outras dúvidas:

Além do PPDIOO há outro framework para desenvolver redes?
Quais as metodologias são empregadas em cada etapa? (sendo o PPDIOO ou não)
Como posso chegar o mais perto possível de entender como se defini os requisitos de um negócio e transormá-los em redes?

Além de ser problemático com o "bit a bit" também sou problemático com a prática, mesmo se eu souber exatamente toda a teoria e não ter a prática eu não considero que sei fazer "aquilo". Como posso obter prática em desenvolver arquiteturas de redes e implementá-las? Mas antes de tudo desenvolver uma arquitetura do zero de maneira racional e sistemática é o meu foco.