17th May 2012

Licensing Tips for 3750 Stacks

Recently I had to upgrade some 3750-x Stacks to Advanced Services and the Cisco documentation was a bit short of advice, and certainly not all in the one place. So here is a quick run down of some key steps.

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Cisco IOS SX Storm Control

Blurt on Cisco Storm Control

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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…

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IOS: “Terminal Monitor” On, Off – Logging to Your Terminal

I get asked this question just often enough to post an article. When you have enabled ‘term mon’, how do you turn it off ? How can you tell it’s working ? And so on.

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IOS CLI: Show Run Linenum

You probably know this one already, but I have been typing ìwr tî for a long time and never stopped to look. Puts a line number at the side of the config so you can say to the person on the other end of the phone, see line 10………. r2#sh run linenum Building configuration… Current [...]

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Cisco IOS Order of Operation – Updated, Again

I often need to refer to the IOS order of operation when I start stacking multiple functions in an IOS configuration.

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Changing the Break Character in Cisco IOS

Does pressing “Ctrl-Shift-6 & x” bother you ? It bugs the hell the out of me.

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