The Avaya (formerly Nortel) Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) has reached end of life and end of sale. The recommended replacement model is the ERS 5900 series switches. Models ERS 5510-24T ERS 5510-48T ERS 5520-24T ERS 5520-48T ERS 5520-24T-PWR ERS 5520-48T-PWR…
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…
Recently I’ve setup a monitoring tool called Intermapper to monitor the Nortel switches I have at work. The tool polls the SNMP traffic information from the switches, and also picks up some basic error notifications received on it’s ports. On…
In order to backup a Nortel/Avaya ERS 470/5510/5520 configuration file in ascii format to a TFTP server the most straight forward way is to use CLI. SSH into the switch and run the following command: switch> enable Switch# copy running-config…
Here’s the CLI on how to create a management VLAN on a Avaya/Nortel ERS 5510/5520. 1. First create a vlan 10 used for management access: Switch(config)# vlan create 10 name “VLAN-10 MGMT” type port 2. Ensure to add the vlan…
The Cisco ASA 8.3 is quite a major release despite the minor version number update. One of the major feature overhaul is the NAT. NAT and statics are no longer bound to an interface. It has moved towards an network…