If your job as a network administrator is anything like mine then you often get pulled somewhat out of your comfort zone by supposed network issues in end hosts. Some of the problems I've had to deal with in this regard are the following:

• Servers with multiple network interfaces where …

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The somewhat newly released netsim-tools by Ivan Pepelnjak has been on my "check-this-out" list for a couple of weeks now. It contains a set of tools to simplify the process of creating virtual network labs. In the following sections I will lay out how to quickly get started with labbing …

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When trying to run Docker and GNS3 on the same Windows system with an AMD processor I was faced with the following challenges:

• Docker for Desktop on Windows requires Hyper-V or WSL2, the latter in turn requires Hyper-V
• Hyper-V on AMD processors only supports nested virtualization as of 2020 (in …

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