Response:Source Code Pro – Monospaced Terminal Font From Adobe

Blog post from Adobe that discusses the background behind the Source Code monospace font and why it’s different. Today, my preferred monospace font for terminal use is Consolas but I’ll be trying this out for a while since it’s free and freely available. Once problem with Consolas is that it doesn’t anti-alias very well. That’s [...]

Cisco NX-OS CLI Tip – Feature Enabled, License and CLI Syntax

When working on NX-OS it’s kind of annoying to attempt to use a feature that hasn’t been enabled and get an error message. Why not get an “not enabled” or “not licensed” error message ?

Cisco IOS CLI Regex: Sh Ip Bgp In

Vitaly left a comment on a blog post with a clever IOS CLI Regex tip. I though I would pick that apart as an exercise.

iTerm 2- Top Tab Tip – Show the Profile Name

Quick tip on configuring iTerm 2 to show the profile names in Tabs – because it annoyed me.

Show Ip Eigrp Topology All

Once upon a time the command was “show ip eigrp topology” to show EIGRP topology, now it’s “show ip eigrp topology all” and the old command show only Feasible Successors.

Verifiying IPsec and SSL Performance of ASA Firewall

It’s difficult to a get any documentation from Cisco that confirms the forwarding performance of the ASA firewall. However, once you have got a unit, the “show crypto acclerator statistics” is a handy way to verify and check the hardware performance of your ASA. I think that most of this output is self-explanatory so I’m [...]

Cisco IOS CLI Shortcuts

Mostly for my own reference. I really need to practice using the Delete Buffer commands and Ctrl-R Refesh as part of my muscle memory.

Putty – Fixing Right Click Paste

Fixing the Right Click Paste action of PuTTY to prevent mistakes when copy and pasting.

Review: goSerial – Console Break for Network Devices on OSX

This is a quick look at the serial console program for Mac OSX called goSerial. There are not many serial consoles programs available and I wanted to review this for my own use.

Reloading IOS Config at CLI for Dynamips/Dynagen

David Sudjiman show us how to save and reload Cisco IOS configurations from the command line in Dynamips / Dynagen.