Blessay: On CCIE Core Knowledge Waivers. The HP Fallout Continues. — UPDATED

I’m bet­ting that the CCIE Core Knowledge Question waivers is because of HP. Oh, and mak­ing money.

Security: ASA Version 8.3.1 Released

Cisco releases ASA Ver 8.3.1. Major changes to NAT and memory upgrade needed.

Cisco Press Errata — the Textbook Is Sometimes Wrong!

It’s not com­mon know­ledge that Cisco Press pub­lish errata on their web­site that list the errors in their text­books. But even if you did, it’s not easy to find.

CCNP Troubleshooting TSHOOT Exam Topology (via Chainring Circus)

Cisco have released the topo­logy for the CCNP troubleshoot­ing exam.

What Might It Mean if Cisco Dumps HP as Certified Partner ?

Thinking through the impact of the breakup between Cisco and HP as announced on Silicon Angle.

Is EEM Ready for the Big Time ?

Can I use Embedded Event Manager as a tool for High Availability networking ?

Cisco: Questions I Have About Cisco, UCS and the Market

I was recently asked to con­sider Cisco and their UCS and whether it is ready for adop­tion. This raised a num­ber of ques­tions that I’d like to have answers for.

Cisco Releasing Spam RFCs? And Discovery on IETF Informational RFCs

Why is M Foschiano from Cisco releas­ing Informational RFC’s to no real pur­pose ? Is this RFC Spam or some evil mar­ket­ing plot ?

Notes on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Architecture. (Or What Does 720 in Supervisor 720 Mean ?)

What does the ‘720’ in the Supervisor 720 stand for ? Or, what do you need to know about Cisco C6500 switch architecture.

Key Change for Cisco IOS 15 — Feature Licensing and How We Work.

Welcome to IOS 15, Feature licens­ing and com­plic­ated main­ten­ance procedures.…

Cisco Announces EOS and EOL Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4

Cisco announces the End of Life and End of Support dates for 12.4. Before IOS 15.0 is even warm­ing up, the pre­vi­ous ver­sion of 12.4 is already on life support.

Blessay: Sixty Five Percent — Cisco’s Gross Profit Margin

Lets be hon­est, there are many things that Cisco does well, and some things that Cisco doesn’t do well. Somebody once said that being a suc­cess­ful com­pany is to do more good things than bad.
For me, one area that is becom­ing a big­ger and big­ger design prob­lem is the price on Cisco products. Recently I took more notice of […]

Cisco Releases BETA IPSec VPN Client for Windows 7

I recently stated the Cisco IPsec VPN Client would have no future devel­op­ment. Cisco has released a Beta ver­sion for Windows 7 and look­ing for feed­back from Windows users.

The Poor Man’s IOS Traffic Generator

This is a fea­ture that I used to use years ago, but had for­got­ten about. For some reason, I remembered it today and it is still as use­ful as it ever was. Read on…

Cisco Credential Verification Report — Checking Certification Status

I found this in Cisco’s Certification site today. Allows recruiter’s and employ­ers to con­firm your Cisco Certification status.

IOS: Console, Terminal, Monitor, VTY — What Is What ?

Sometimes when I talk­ing with other engin­eers about con­nect­ing a con­sole or ter­minal to a router, they don’t use the right terms. So, here is an art­icle that cov­ers the con­ven­tions for the terms con­sole, mon­itor and terminal.

IOS: Clearing an Interface Configuration

You need to clear an inter­face in IOS but there are a load of con­fig­ur­a­tion ele­ments there. Once com­mand can clear the lot.

IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length

Why does IOS always make you press the ‘more’ key all the time when dis­play­ing configs ?

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