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An Unexpected Visit From Comcast
Comcast Truck by hoot2012 via flickr ‘Twas a dark and stormy night when a knock came at the door… Actually, it was a sunny afternoon when my wife rang my mobile phone. A Comcast field technician had...
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The Packet Pushers on CCNP (with me!)
The Packet Pushers wanted to record a podcast on the CCNP and as a recently certified CCNP, I was asked to join the show. I enjoyed the recording and I think we made a pretty good episode. If you are...
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Recovering a Cisco AP from ROMMON
While doing a bit of labbing with an old AP1230, I typed “erase flash:” and my muscle memory happily confirmed the command. This was slightly faster than my brain noticed that all I really wanted was...
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Cisco Live 2013 Guest Speaker
Sir Richard Branson Looks like the guest speaker at Cisco Live 2013 will be business magnate Sir Richard Branson. He is the founder and chairman of the Virgin Group. You probably haven’t heard of most...
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Making The Most of Cisco Live 2013 (Updated)
[Note: Recently added is a section on the CAE (a glaring omission, I must say), a tip on having a light jacket for the sessions, and a section on mobile devices power.] The giant “Cisco Live!” sign...
View ArticleAAA Poll: Local, TACACS+, or RADIUS?
We are currently authenticating with local users, which is suboptimal for a variety of reasons, though it is simple. I’m deploying centralized authentication using RADIUS with Active Directory, and was...
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CCNA Wireless
CCNA Wireless Logo I’ve been working with Cisco lightweight wireless for about 10 years, but last year it really started to become a bigger focus in my job. After completing my CCNP, I decided that I...
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ASR Facility Alarms
ASR 1001 with CRIT LED I’ve been getting ready to deploy an ASR 1001 as an Internet gateway router and am learning a bit about IOS-XE and the ASR platform. As you can see in the picture to the right,...
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Code of Ethics
The purpose of IT is to be a business enabler. To put it another way, IT is supposed to help others use information technologies to do their jobs. It doesn’t matter if you are a PC Tech or an...
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Cisco Live 2013, Day 0
The Official (OK, maybe it’s not “official”) Cisco Live Pedometer Official Cisco Pedometer Count 7416 steps, 400kcal burned, and 3.5 miles. No idea how accurate it is, but I’ll be using it all week, so...
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Cisco Live 2013 Highlights Edition
The giant Cisco Live sign returned for 2013 Cisco Live 2013 was a great week of learning and networking (in both senses). I went to some great sessions, a few of which I’ll highlight below, and spent...
View ArticleNo ISSU for you!
The Nexus 5000 series has the capability to do ISSU, an In-Service Software Upgrade. You can upgrade a vPC pair of Nexus 5000s without impacting any hosts (assuming everything is dual connected). Well,...
View ArticlePassword required, but none set
I had a strange thing happen today when I upgraded a 2960G from IOS 12.2 to 15.0. After booting the upgraded IOS, I logged in, entered the enable command, and was surprised to get this error:...
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CCDA (640-864 DESGN)
Introduction While I was at Cisco Live 2013 I passed the CCDA (640-864 DESGN) exam. I took this towards the end of the conference using the on-site 50% discount. I had already attempted (and not...
View ArticleGNS3 1.0 CrowdFunding
I suspect everyone reading my blog uses GNS3. If you don’t, go check it out. From their website: GNS3 is an open source software that simulate complex networks while being as close as possible to the...
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Your break room phones are EoL
Cisco 6945 IP Phone OK, maybe your break room phones aren’t EoL, but the model we have been using is. We use the 6945 for our break room phones, and the 6900 series had their end of life announced last...
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Your old network gear is EoL, too…
Cisco 3560V2 Switches Cisco 3650 Unified Access Switches So yesterday, I pointed out that Your break room phones are EoL. Continuing on that EoL theme for Turkey week, I’m going to complicate your life...
View ArticleCollection of CCIE v5 Links
Yesterday Cisco announced the CCIE v5 blueprints. The majority of the changes look good to me and seem to more accurately reflect todays networks. I like it, myself. More technologies I use and less...
View ArticleNotable Notes from Cisco WLC Release Notes
I finally have the chance to work on upgrading from our WLC4404 controllers to some WiSM2s. The 4400 series controllers are only supported through the 7.0 releases of the WLC software. With 7.6 being...
View ArticleOT: Microphone Audio Comparison
Have you noticed how bad audio can ruin a podcast or video? Having a great mic really helps improve audio quality. One of the gifts I received for Christmas was a Blue Microphones Yeti, which is a...
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