Buyer Beware

While looking over the profiles of people sending me friend requests on Facebook (if I've never said two words to you before, don't bother) I came across this page Cisco Training Online which is selling CCIE bootcamps.  Just for the heck of it, I scrolled down the page.  Besides the ads...

Setting up the 2511 Part 2

There is one more feature of the Cisco access servers that I do not see mentioned very often. Maybe it's been talked to death and I just missed it. But either way, I think is hugely important. That is the ability to telnet through it to the connected devices without ever actually appearing to touch the access server itself. In this post, I'll go over that briefly. To recap, in the previous post,...

Setting up the Cisco 2511

Racked up in my lab, I have more routers, switches, firewalls and access points than I care to count.  These devices are all in the basement, which is a place I don't necessarily want to set up shop when I'm labbing due do a number of reasons such as the temperature and the constant hum of the dehumidifier.  So when I'm upstairs, any oopsie that causes loss of connectivity would require...

ASA Liscense Woes

This evening I was tasked with installing a PAK on an ASA 5512-X for a client.  Sales forwarded me the eDelivery Order Notification without event, I grabbed the serial number from the output of the "show version" command, and with a click on "Register Claim Certificates (PAKs)" within the email.  I already had this handy guide from one of my favorite blogs loaded up in my...