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Early Death of Cisco VPN Client Forces VPN License Fees

Cisco has ceased development on the IPSec VPN client, and shifted to pushing the SSL VPN client. But that costs up to USD$125 per VPN client. Is that good for customers ?

June 30, 2009 | Read More »

Design Tip: Cisco Retail Price List, Creating Your Own Price Estimates

Not everyone knows that Cisco publishes their Price List every month. And for designers who want to quickly evaluate various design it is an essential part of your design toolkit. We look creating your own price estimates using Excel and Cisco Price List.

April 26, 2009 | Read More »

Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges

TRILL is a key network technology for enabling Cloud Computing by allowing for better migrations of VM’s, and better utilisation of the network switching fabric and much improved stability of the Data Centre Server Fabric.

March 30, 2009 | Read More »

Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and Then Fixing Them)

Continuing on with absurdly popular posts about making diagrams in Visio. Lets draw a line in freehand. It will be broken, because we aren’t artists so lets talk about how to fix it.

March 23, 2009 | Read More »

5 Things About Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up[Post Prandial]

So Cisco announced it Intel Servers today. Its kind of exciting if you are into Data Centers and Virtualisation. They have done something very different.

March 16, 2009 | Read More »

Network Diagrams: VLANs and IP Subnets

One of the most common items that we need to draw are VLANs and Layer 3 segment. Lets look at one way to create a useful shape.

March 8, 2009 | Read More »

Network Diagrams: Drawing the Background Shape

This post looks at how to draw the background shape and shaping following my previous posts on drawing network diagrams.

March 6, 2009 | Read More »

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MAC,OS X and Networking

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A quick note on how to issue a terminal break character when using screen on OS-X.

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A workmate expressed surprise when he saw ASDM working natively on my MAC today. Which made me think, maybe you didn’t know either. And I took a photo to prove it.

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If you listen to music on your computer (not iPod) then this tool is a must have.

Design and Architecture

Early Death of Cisco VPN Client Forces VPN License Fees

Cisco has ceased development on the IPSec VPN client, and shifted to pushing the SSL VPN client. But that costs up to USD$125 per VPN client. Is that good for customers ?

June 30, 2009 | Read More »

Design:Choosing Firefox for IE6 Compatibility

Recent discussions about legacy software requiring IE6 means that we will deploy Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

May 21, 2009 | Read More »

Design Tip: Cisco Retail Price List, Creating Your Own Price Estimates

Not everyone knows that Cisco publishes their Price List every month. And for designers who want to quickly evaluate various design it is an essential part of your design toolkit. We look creating your own price estimates using Excel and Cisco Price List.

April 26, 2009 | Read More »

The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel – A Reasonably Complete View

A number of storage bloggers have been questioning the relevance of FCoE and why would you bother with it. Given the size of marketing budgets pushing FCoE and the reality distortion this generates, lets look at the case AGAINST FCoE.

April 20, 2009 | Read More »

Blue Coat Proxy

Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer-Excellent-Outcome

Fantastic news! As a long time user of Blue Coat and Packeteer, I am pretty excited about this. The Packeteer traffic management technologies... 

April 21, 2008 | Read More »

Blue Coat ProxySG VIP and Cisco Switches Need Multicast Enabled

You have a pair of shiny new ProxySG boxen that you want to setup in active / standby for high availability. You configure it up and... 

March 30, 2008 | Read More »

Delete the X-Bluecoat-via Header on Your ProxySG

If you have noticed that your Blue Coat ProxySG inserts a HTTP header in every transaction, you might want to delete this to reduce... 

February 27, 2008 | Read More »

Dynamips and Dynagen

Caring for Your Dynamips Install – Deleting Unwanted Files

Dynamips and dynagen are well behaved programs most of the time. Occasionally I am configuring a feature or two that causes IOS to... 

February 24, 2008 | Read More »

iTerm and Dynamips – Write to All Terminals at Once

I am often find myself needing to stop, make a configuration change to Dynagen, and then restart. To make sure I don’t miss anything... 

January 22, 2008 | Read More »

Suspending and Resuming Dynamips

As someone who travels often, and always looking to make use of the travel time, I was pleased to find that I can suspend and resume... 

January 18, 2008 | Read More »

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