MPLS Just Wanted Basic Connectivity — Here's What Actually Happened Built a lab to test pings. Ended up debugging design. Turns out, not reaching the destination was exactly what was supposed to happen.
Juniper When the Interface Looks Clean: How Customer Policing Causes Invisible Packet Loss Clean interfaces don’t always mean clean service. This lab shows how customer-side policing silently discards traffic, creating invisible packet loss without provider-side errors or drops.
MPLS 🚦Understanding LSP and Troubleshooting Label Switched Paths Like a Pro LSPs don’t break. They misbehave when something upstream changes — and understanding how to trace and interpret those changes is what makes us better engineers.
MPLS 🧠Phase 4 – Ring Around the Backbone: Simulating a Protected Transport Core In Phase 4, I expanded the MPLS lab into a fully redundant core ring, enabling end-to-end VPN reachability and real-world fault tolerance testing.
