CiscoPress
I guess I need to get back to blogging. I got an email that looks legit but could be spam from someone at CiscoPress asking if I'd like to review technical books. If it turns out to be legit I'll have to jump on that. I&…
Interesting config replacement command
There's so much in IOS that it's easy to miss some of the less used commands. Why Cisco doesn't make a big deal out of these kinds of things I don't know. Sometimes it seems like they are all about Voice. Still,…
IOGear Serial on OS X...Finally!
Well looky here. Took them a while but there is a native Intel driver for the GUC232A USB to Serial dongle! Since I decided to rebuild my MacBook I needed to get the serial dongle working again. Figured I'd check the IOGear website and the driver is there.…
A MacBook and a Router Jockey
I've had my MacBook for about 6 months now (!) and I figure it's time to talk about how that's working out. First of all, the bad. My MacBook has been hit by the two known problems with MacBooks. Discoloration of the palm rest and…
Ciscoworks...I despise thee
Can I just say how much I don't like CiscoWorks. I mean, what a cumbersome piece of software. Anyway...…
CatOS VACLs
Ah, VLAN ACL's. You have been my nemesis for days! Ok, here's the trick to get them to work. Perhaps it will be obvious for others but it wasn't to me. The ACL's must use wildcard masks! That's right, the…
7200's, 3600's... oh my!
Before I forget, great progress has been made on the Cisco router simulator. It now supports 3600 images! This is like a CCIE's dream!…
Cisco will fail in the SMB space
In the last 6 months or so Cisco's been on this push to grow the Small/Medium Business space. Seems they've just realized there's a huge market there that they aren't affectively addressing. It would also seem that there may not be…