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This blog is a living blog of information and embedded video for both basic and advanced MPLS topics for our students learning MPLS and need additional resources for mastery of topics covered in the MPLS course and additional information not covered in the, somewhat dated (2006), MPLS 2.2 course. Due to its popularity and ubiquitous use in today's enterprise and ISP networks, having some additional MPLS information on topics like AToM and TE, will help our students tremendously in their quest for success. -->
Protecting your local PC from Outside Threats
Sometimes the need to defend our own data on the local PC that we use becomes extremely important and in some cases (sadly) even outweighs the security posture used by our company or the Internet connection that our company uses. What can be really unfortunate about this, is that companies, (sometimes) even big ones, make little to no effort to obtain the expertise and/or simply dont have the expertise, even sometimes "afraid" of security controls that they just dont understand, and therefore they hesitate to implement them to protect their assets. What one must realize is that a lack of a solid security posture is one of the few things (like the lack of a disaster recovery plan) that can put a company out of business literally overnight, or may at least lead to enough downtime to significatly impact their "familiar business process". ...Read More
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Pasting Large Cisco Device Configurations in One Step
If you've been working with Cisco devices for awhile, you know that the fastest way to backup your configuration is: 1. Do a "show run" command 2. Copy all the output to your clipboard 3. Paste it into notepad Then, if you need to restore the configuration you just move into global configuration mode and paste all the output back in. Voila! Insta-configured Cisco device. Here's the problem...when you paste in larger configuration files, it fails. Somewhere after about 50-80 lines of config, the input begins to
How Quality Training Directly Relates to Job Performance
So here it is...the Granddaddy of all discussions with regards to training. Was it worth it?
Was it worth the money? Was it worth the time I spent? Arriving at a difinitive answer for these questions can be difficult; for the student, for the Training Coordinator, Managers, etc.
Why?
Let's set the scenario...
You took a training class somewhere, and well, you learned some stuff,
Save Our Internet Bandwidth!!
For the sake of all that is sacred....save us from the bandwidth theives! YouTube, Google Video, MySpace....and others. All of them are to thank for our latest level of Internet bandwidth saturation. If it bothers you like it does me, why not do something about it. Save the Internet bandwidth for your business!!
Blocking Peer-to-Peer and Other Traffic of Interest
I don't even want it on my corporate network. It serves no business purpose, so why allow it. What am I talking about? Peer-to-peer file sharing applications and other traffic of interest that may sacrifice my security policy. Allowing P2P could very well be the fastest way to complete Network Death!
Scheduled Reload of Cisco Devices
Did you know that you can schedule WHEN your Cisco IOS Device reboots? Yes, it's true.
Implementing Private VLANs - How They REALLY Work!
One very functional layer 2 security mechanisms that it seems hardly anyone understands is the use of Private VLANs. While simple in concept, the implementation of PVLANs can be difficult to grasp, especially in large, complex environments.
Taking Inventory on Cisco Devices
Another quick, random tip to save you time.
Have you ever wanted to quickly identify your router or switch platform as well as it's installed modules and the serial numbers of each? Well there is a simple command that you can use to access all of this data on a Cisco IOS device:
BiDirectional NAT on a Cisco PIX or ASA
Cisco PIX/ASA Security - Bidirectional NAT with DMZ Interfaces
It is time to get rid of that pesky ALIAS command!
If any of you have ever dealt with a Cisco PIX or ASA appliance with at least one DMZ interface that contains a public resource (like a web server) that users on the inside also need to access directly by URL – you might have used the PIX alias command to make it happen.