As Cisco evolves its console ports, many of its devices now feature USB Mini-B ports for console connections, leaving behind the traditional RJ-45. If you’re working with newer Cisco devices like the Catalyst 2960 Series, Catalyst 9300, or Cisco 8000…
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If you’re setting up or managing a Cisco Catalyst 9200CX switch, you’ve probably noticed something different: no traditional RJ-45 console port. That’s right — Cisco is moving toward modern connectivity, and the 9200CX models now use a USB Micro-B console…
What’s wrong with the old Cisco Console Cable? As a long time Network Engineer I’ve used a fair share of Cisco console cables and various dongles. The regular generic Cisco Console cables (aka Rollover cable) that come with routers and…
Prerequisites Not all Cisco switches support Netflow. Cisco Catalyst 3650 and 3850 runs IOS XE and supports Full Netflow (not sampled) capability. This feature is only supported from IPBASE license and up. In order to enable this, use the below…
Cisco switch management port interface The Cisco management port interface could be located at the back or front of the switch and has a yellow band around it like the picture below: It is a layer 3 (routed) port and…
Problem Getting this error message on popup on your Windows 7 PC? Windows has detected an IP address conflict or Duplicate IP Address 0.0.0.0 or The system has detected an address conflict for IP address 0.0.0.0 with the system having…
Perform Web URL Filtering or Blacklisting without additional hardware There’s a simple and free method of performing dynamic web URL filtering or blacklisting on the Cisco ASA without the need of implementing websense or N2H2/Smartfilter server. This is can be…
Problem If you ever run into the following error messages: %Error copying usbflash0:cat3k_caa-universalk9.SPA.03.06.04.E.152-2.E4.bin (Not enough space on device) or % flash: requires 295884 KB of free space, but only 167160 KB is available. Operation aborted. You’ve run out of disk…
Where to download the latest Cisco ASA & ASDM firmware image. There’s a nice way for you to do this directly from your ASA & ASDM
