Network Field Notes
About

Dustin Burns

Lead Mobility Engineer · HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper

I design, migrate, and fix campus networks for a living: HPE Aruba Networking wireless and switching, ClearPass and NAC, Juniper Mist, and the Ekahau surveys that decide where the APs actually go. Twenty-some years of it, most of that in New England, currently as Lead Mobility Engineer on the Campus and Mobility team at WEI.

This site is mine. The opinions are mine, the mistakes are mine, and the configs are scrubbed placeholders, so don't paste them anywhere you care about without reading them first. Customers are never named. Forum posters are only ever "somebody."

I spend a lot of evenings on HPE Airheads answering the same questions in different clothes, which is where most of these posts come from.

HPE Aruba NetworkingAOS-CXAOS-8 / AOS-10ClearPassCentralJuniper MistEkahauWi-Fi 6E / 7EVPN-VXLAN
In the bag
Ekahau Sidekick 2 + laptopWalks the building so the heatmap doesn't have to guess. Still can't see channel 173.
Console cable, USB-C serialThe only management plane that has never had an outage.
PoE testerSettles the "but the switch says bt" argument in about four seconds.
Label maker, punch-down, cable testerNobody blogs about this part. Everybody uses it.