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Cisco have a new licensing method that involves installing an XML license on the end device. The license you buy is a code but rather than j...

Handy new feature in version 8.4 of the ASA software is the ability to do global access lists. The Cisco ASA allows security levels to be ...

EAL stands for evaluation assurance level and is a certificate of security for IT products measured against a set of common security criteri...

This article covers setting up port forwarding with Cisco Zone Based Firewall (ZBF) on a typical home connection. There are a couple of step...

Frame-relay study time! There are several ways to bundle links together in frame-relay: Frame-relay Multilink - FRF.16 PPP Multilink FRF16 r...

One of the big things that Cisco VSS is missing is the ability to clearly see when it's failed over. You set up your spanking new 6500 ...

Configurations below for a PPPoE lab, directly connecting two routers. This uses the new broad-band access (bba) command instead of the old ...

There are lots of docs from IBM explaining the blade center architecture but it's a lot of information to filter through if you're o...

This article assumes you are familiar with MSTP and VTP. The latest incarnation of VTP version 3 is now available on versions of IOS from 12...

This is a (very late) addition to the article here . Cisco 6500 doesn't directly limit the number of spanning-tree instances. It has lim...

Cisco switches have separate limitations on: The number of VLANs that can exist in the database. The number of Spanning-Tree Instances that ...

HSRP is configured in standby groups, each one having an identifier value in the switch configuration. The acceptable range of values is 0-...

This is useful if you ever end up without a password for a router but you do know the SNMP read-write community values or usernames. It can ...

VSS stands for Virtual Switching System and is a technology for use on 6500 series switches. It works in a similar way to stackwise on the 3...

Upgrading a Cisco switch is very easy: Copy IOS image to the flash drive on the switch. Point the boot statement at the new image. Reboot th...

Follows on from part 1 . Now to get MP-BGP up and running on the MPLS lab. BGP-4 (as described in RFC 1771 ) can only carry IPv4 prefixes. R...

I'm currently studying MPLS for the CCIP qualification so will be putting up a series of articles on building a basic service-provider n...

Something that often comes in handy is the ability to physically locate hosts on a large campus network from their IP address. This article ...

A brief article on how I've got SNMPv3 working in older versions of CiscoWorks. This follows on from the SNMPv3 intro . Ciscoworks only ...

Quick article on SNMP version 3, focused on Cisco kit. Previous versions of SNMP were configured using community strings and single-line com...