About me & Going forward

I am a 23 year old network engineer at an MSP. About a year and a half ago I discovered networking through college and was very interested in it. I started studying from Jeremy's IT lab course online and eventually got my CCNA right before I landed my first help desk job. After starting getting to basic helpdesk experience I started studying for my CCNP ENARSI exam. A few months after working on helpdesk I got a junior network engineering role doing a huge LAN refresh. During my time in the role I got a ton of hands on experience and got to troubleshoot a lot of issues, work with a bunch of engineers and CCIE's. It was a great experience. Fast forward to now, I have got promoted at my job, have passed CCNP ENCOR and CCNP ENARSI and am now looking to take CCNP ENSLD in May as well as my PCNSA soon. I am very passionate about networking if that isn't obvious.

In my free time I like to watch football, hangout with friends, study, and cook. Going forward in my career I want to keep expanding my knowledge and my big current goal is to eventually go for my CCIE. However, there is too much that interests me right now and I want to work in the field more to get more experience. So my next step after I pass PCNSA and ENSLD is to start on automation. I think this is a key skill to have moving forward which is why I want to learn more about it. I also really like Palo Alto and want to get better with them.

This blog is going contain a lot of different things. I may write about work experiences, studying tips, home labbing, topics I have been studying about, and how my progress with certifications is going. The majority is going to be networking topics as I hope this blog is able to help others. For now I will be hosting this blog through the cloud but eventually I will get this self hosted. My goal is to get my CCIE before I turn 26, so a little under 3 years.

Flavors of IGMP

As I stated in the last post, there are three versions of IGMP. These are V1, V2, and V3. So what are the differences? I will be explaining that, and I also want to just quickly go over what IGMP is. IGMP is when a host tells a router that

What is Multicast?

Multicast is a way we can send traffic. Just like unicast (one to one), broadcast (one source to everyone), and then we have multicast. Multicast is one to many, not everyone. This means we are able to send traffic to a group of receivers. Why would we ever want to

QoS Models

For a lot of people QoS is a very hard concept to grasp and understand. This is understandable as there is a lot that goes into it and a lot to learn. In this post I want to go over the different types of QoS Models. There are three main

IPV6 Migration Techniques

When I first learned about this topic when studying for ENSLD it was very hard for me to understand. I'm not sure why, it just hurt my head to learn about so I am going to explain it after doing research into all of these migration techniques and

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Flavors of IGMP

What is Multicast?

QoS Models

IPV6 Migration Techniques