About me

meHi, if you don't know me i'm Matt and this is my home on the Internet. If you want to know more about me then please follow the links below to look at my blog and photo galleries. I graduated from Durham University in June 2006 with a degree in Software Engineerig and I am currently working out what I want to do with my life - if you have any decent suggestions please let me know (I don't however want to do anything related to software development!

I try to spend as much time as I can in the theatre and whilst in Durham I was involved teching a large number of events over the 3 years. If you want to know more about my life then click here.

Latest blog entries

Here you will find my latest blog entries. Click the title to read the full entry

Juniper EX view pending changes

When making changes to Juniper EX switches yesterday I wanted to check the changes that I had made to my configuration before committing them. A quick look in the reference manual gave me the followinread more

Re-certified my JNCIA-FWV and booked my CCNA

Today I sat and passed my JNCIA-FWV to re-certify myself in the eyes of Juniper for another two years. I was in and out in 30 minutes and achieved a 93% pass mark. Work have also booked my CCNA exam fread more

Asymmetric routing with Cisco ASA firewalls

Last month I installed a new Cisco ASA 5510 for a client and came across an issue where traffic was hitting the "inside" interface of the firewall before travelling back out the same interface and intread more

Opsview - patch for check_route plugin

I was playing around with the check_route plugin and noticed a few issues with it not running. In order to get it to work on my Opsview boxes I had to install a new package, change some settings on thread more

Configuring Juniper SSG Firewalls to failover between Internet connections

I have been working with the Netscreen, and then Juniper firewall products for the past five years and am still learning new and interesting features they offer. One thing that I have been configuringread more

Latest gallery albums

Due to excessive disk usage and the fact that I no longer updated the gallery. This section of the site has been removed. Thanks

Note: Welcome to my newly skinned website - the code and content is almost identical but this should be a tidier layout and will match the gallery and blog themes (see links at the top of the page). Hope you enjoy

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