Here’s how to get your free Citrix Netscaler VPX Express license key Visit the Citrix website https://www.citrix.com/downloads/netscaler-adc/virtual-appliances/netscaler-vpx-express Create yourself a Citrix account. Create a customer account and fill in your contact information. Once you are through you will be greeted with…
Where did my “switchport access vlan 1” command go? Have you ever noticed that Cisco has loaded default configurations onto the switch without showing it on your startup or running config? “switchport access vlan 1” is a good example. Take…
What is static link aggregation? Static link aggregation is a method of combining or bundling of multiple switch ports or nics to form a single etherchannel. It increases throughput and redundancy for the two connecting devices. A static link aggregation…
Classic Firewall There are two configuration models to setup a firewall on IOS; the classic firewall (used to be called CBAC – Context based access control) and the zone based firewall. In this post I’m going to document how to…
Setting up Radius using the old IOS cli If you entered the following for setting up radius server, radius-server host 192.168.1.1 you will get the following warning message informing you that you there is a new way of configuring radius…
Task: Check to see if a particular error message occurs in /var/log/messages and email the contents of the error message every 5 minutes Lets first break down the task into three parts: 1. Extract contents from the log file for…
Recently I migrated my blog over to Bluehost as Godaddy was going to rip me off for $250+ per year on renewal. The migration was simple as I have a Linux background. Their C-Panel was quite standard as well. Anyways…
10Gb and Beyond Fiber has been the traditionally the cable of choice when utilizing 10Gb connectivity. They tend to consume less power and are much lower in latency. Physically the cables take up much less room and is much better…
The Challenge So you’re at work and your corporate firewall restricts all outgoing traffic except for http/https (port 80/443) and you want to remote desktop to your PC at home. What can you do? The simple solution is to use…
What’s the difference between “switchport mode access” and “switchport access vlan xx”? First of all, both commands are required to set the switch to an access port. switch(config-if)# switchport mode access This above command disables DTP – Dynamic Trunking Protocol…