Having to do some connecting of Cisco and Extreme switches for the purposes of migrating from Extreme to Cisco. I have a number of things I need to prove before we can do this. One thing is to make sure we can trunk multiple ports together, push VLANs across them…
Wow, lotta buzzwords there! Ok, this may turn out to be a bit of a longish post but here goes: Let's say you just got your LWAPP AP's in with your Cisco WLC 440x. Works great except you also want to do user based authentication. No…
Long the bane of wanna be CCIE's everywhere, routers are expensive! And there's no way to pass the lab without routers for practice. Enter the router emulator. The Cisco 7200 Simulator doesn't just create a simulated environment like the Boson and other programs do.…
One of the key things I needed to get working for my transition to the MacBook is serial connectivity. I'm a router jockey after all. I've finally gotten it working and I thought it would be a good idea to share how. First of all, this…
I've added a link to IPTNetworkers.com on the right. This is the forum where I discovered the CM5 beta. This and voiceie.com are the two Cisco CM dedicated forums I've found so far. Unfortunately they're both sparse on contributions so far.…
I'm a network engineer by trade and one of the things that I absolutely must have in a laptop is console access. This isn't a big deal aside from it being difficult to find a laptop with a serial port anymore. IOGear makes a very nice…
I've been working on a lot of VoIP lately so you can expect this blog to focus on that quite a bit. Most of what I'm doing is with Cisco's VoIP gear including Call Manager (CM) and Call Manager Express (CME). Cisco's…