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Over the years, I've worked with a number of products. Some of them start out easy to use and stay easy to use. Some of them started out easy and then got harder because they added a bunch of features and didn't take time to clean up the GUI when integrating them or - worse - there's a totally different GUI for the add-on and it's way different from the one I got used to. And then there are the ones that didn't add features, but they did ruin the GUI and chose to double down on the crap instead of rolling back to what I was comfortable with.

A change in GUI is like inviting the competition in if the product doesn't have a "revert" button. I can see wanting to have a new look for marketing and sales purposes, but the daily users of the product likely have lots of memories attached to what they're doing and how they're doing it and changing everything makes them feel useless. Replaceable. Unimportant. Judged by the makers of the product and found wanting. And that makes it easier to burn a bridge and move on.

Move forward or get left behind.... change is GUI is good as features may get added over time, but, oh the bugs, GUI that don't work as expected need a revert button.

https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-will-start-using-ai-help-make-coverage-decisions-next-year-2111093

Another interesting AI article
 

I got 30 bucks (US) a the recycle center for a bunch of old gear and a box of cables.

does old cisco hardware have any value anymore, 2900 & 3550 switches, 3600 routers?  or is it time for the electronics recycle? I see maybe 50-60 bucks on ebay. but there are a ton.

yes but need a few more on ramps down the mainline.

Do you have metered on-ramps on the highways near you?  otherwise look it up,  consider the highway the wire, consider the on -ramps as the buffer, cars as the packets, the more traffic on the highways, the slower the signals are to allow the cars from the on-ramps onto the highway to their destination. thus allowing all traffic on the highway, eventually (delay), but not so much that the highways are no so much congested (at capacity) and packets dropped (cars crash).

Then I probably shouldn't tell you about the Wellfleet and Bay Networks routers we have in our data center.

Please do, my hacker friends are much interested in your network design and details.
 

Did you all see the NIH DDoS attack in the news from last weekend? It was a big deal, and happened on my watch.  I spent 25 hours between Sat/Sun battling that crap.

My brother turned me on to brighteon.ai, its a AI that is trying to preserve the "old ways" of doing and knowledge quote from the site it's a "set of critical human knowledge about food, nutrition, farming, permaculture, herbs, indigenous medicine, alternative medicine, off-grid survival, sustainability and other critical knowledge areas that have kept human civilization alive."

most interesting database of knowledge, Personally I couldn't get the self extracting .exe to run, so I downloaded the .gguf file and have successfully launched the .gguf in Ollma for windows 64bit. I Tried LM Studio, but my Norton AV said there was a virus in the LMstudio.exe, forums said it was a false alert, but I didn't want to take a chance.

it does like here:

no, no it was all very basic OSPF V2 routing, between firewalls and another page for routers, same of OSPF v3, some basic non-authenticated OSPF routing between firewalls and routers.  Cisco TAC wouldn't help either, their response was that TAC was for break fix scenarios not for verifying or proposing new configurations,  I have a scheduled maintenance, supposedly with TAC to troubleshoot, but the dolt never showed up, didn't answer his email, and didn't have Voicemail. his manager got an earful the next morning.

Does anyone know, or have reference to configure OSPFv3 IPSEC authentication between Cisco router and Cisco ASA firewall
 
router is ASR-9912-AC running IOS XR version 7.4.2
firewall is ASA running 9.18(4)

Thanks

I read the networking explained book and it has covered this description neatly.

so can you provide a quick refresh, in your own words on how you think it works (without cut/paste) from reference material?  this will solidify your understanding of this complex material if you can "dumbify" it for us so we can understand your thought process.

I would suggest here
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/distance-vector-routing-dvr-protocol/

review DVRA
and review the GATE CS Corner Questions

it's a data visulization tool. aggregates data, makes nice visual charts, and easy reports.