Lab Projects
The following projects represent ongoing lab work across routing and switching, data centre fabric design, and network security. Each topology is built and tested in EVE-NG using virtual appliances from Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto and F5.
EVE-NG labs exploring MPLS L3VPN topology design with iBGP/eBGP route reflectors, OSPF as the IGP, and LDP/RSVP-TE signalling. The experiment covers route reflector configuration, VRF separation, and traffic engineering path selection across multiple virtual nodes.
Leaf-spine fabric labs using VXLAN with a BGP EVPN control plane on Cisco Nexus virtual appliances. The experiment explores symmetric IRB, ARP suppression, and multi-tenant VRF segmentation in an EVE-NG environment.
Labs evaluating perimeter and internal segmentation using Palo Alto NGFW with App-ID/User-ID policy configuration, Fortinet FortiGate in an HA pair, and F5 BIG-IP for application delivery and SSL inspection. The experiment examines policy enforcement behaviour and failover scenarios.