Jeremy Cioara
Secret Company of the Year: EaseUS
We take a break from our regular Cisco programming to bring you this Microsoft update. Some time ago, I re-installed Windows on a friend's laptop and had one of those time-stand-still moments when he said, "What about my email?" Yep … Continue Reading
IOS Recovery from ROMMON by Jeremy Cioara
This information is here primarily for my reference at customer sites; for some odd reason, I seem to be recovering IOS images through ROMMON quite a bit lately. These are the minimum fields to get this going through TFTP rather … Continue Reading
Completely Clearing a Cisco Switch…The Easy Way!
Clearing out a Cisco switch configuration is always a pain because VLANs are kept in a seperate file from the startup-config (NVRAM). There's two ways to clear a switch back to the factory defaults – the easy way and the … Continue Reading
The Coolest Cisco Links of All by Jeremy Cioara
Okay, here's my thought. I've got some links that I have found very handy in the Cisco world over the years…links that I typically forget about, but then someone shows me the same link months later and I get all … Continue Reading
Cisco SSL VPN – Jeremy Cioara
SSL VPNs are the future of VPN technology. While they are still brand new, "bleeding edge" sort of technology, they will eventually be how we run our VPN connections for most organizations. The concept is simple: HTTPS (SSL-based) web pages … Continue Reading
Three handy alias commands – Jeremy Cioara
From global config: alias exec s show ip interface brief (the ol' standby) alias exec traffic sh ip nbar protocol-discovery stats bit-rate top-n 10 (shows top 10 protocols using your interfaces) alias exec proc show proc cpu | excl 0.00%__0.00%__0.00% … Continue Reading
Random Cisco “Trick” – Jeremy Cioara
Okay, this may be old news to some of you, but someone showed it to me and it changed my life…or at least seemed like a pretty cool tip. On Cisco devices, you can filter the "show run" output by … Continue Reading
Installing CallManager 4.X on Non-MCS Server Platforms by Jeremy Cioara
I did it. I finally did it. I've got a Cisco CallManager 4.1(3) server running natively on a Dell Optiplex 270GX. Now, I'm not talking about the old registry hack forcing you to install Windows 2000, hack the registry, and … Continue Reading
