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Preferred Vendors (self.networking)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by manifex to c/networking

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Do you have a preferred vendor for your network gear?

I'll go first:

Firewalls: Fortinet, ASA, Palo Alto
Route/Switch: Cisco, HPE/Aruba
Wireless: Aruba, Cisco, Meraki
Auth: NPS, ISE, ClearPass
Monitoring: SolarWinds, Auvik, PRTG
Automation: Ansible
SDWAN: PA Prisma SDWAN, Fortinet, Velocloud

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Firewalls: Fortinet, Juniper
Route/Switch: Juniper
Wireless: God please no
Auth: FreeRADIUS
Monitoring: Zabbix
Automation: Salt
SDWAN: Fortinet

[–] manifex 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Zabbix is great, I’ve rolled an instance of that. Also did extensive work with FreeRADIUS - that’s one big conf file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The key to FreeRADIUS is to auto-generate the config, and use something like SQL or LDAP as an auth source.

[–] manifex 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, unfortunately, the use case I was implementing it for was 802.1X with certificates... that was fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Once upon a time I setup the same thing and it was a PITA, and we didn't want to use it in production. We've just setup PacketFence which uses FreeRadius and it was an absolute breeze by comparison