Troubleshooting EIGRP
To troubleshoot EIGRP you should obvious have a grasp understanding of the specific routing protocol. Of course this doesn’t only apply to the EIGRP routing protocol. Troubleshooting the EIGRP routing protocol on a Cisco devices is mainly about logging the correct information to a syslog server, the buffer or the console and know what the … Read More
Cisco Firewall Design and Deployment
The session about firewall design and deployment didn’t reveal a lot of new things about the Cisco ASA appliance or FWSM module. The only new thing for me was the possibility to configure a redundant interface for a Cisco ASA appliance. The screen shot below shows the cabling scheme for an implementation with and without … Read More
Cisco Live – A lot of rude people
I haven’t seen so much rude people in one place during the first day of Cisco Live 2008. I noticed during all the sessions and especially during the general keynote by Cisco’s CEO John Chambers a lot of people left the room, when they noticed that the session was going to an end. I don’t … Read More
Wired 802.1X
The session about wired 802.1X deployment was really interesting. I was stunned about the information I already knew after my testing with MAC Authentication Bypass last week. Of course the speaker had more configuration options when configuring the switch ports. Important for me to hear where the ways for deploying 802.1X in environments. It isn’t … Read More
Cisco IOS Security
The first session I attended is about Deploying IOS Security. The session is about using the Cisco IOS as firewall to protect branch offices. We discussed normal classic firewalling and zone-based firewalling. I normally use classing firewalling, but I guess I have to try zone-based firewalling in the future. The advantage of zone-based firewalling is … Read More
Cisco Live 2008
It took a while to finally register for Cisco Networkers / Live. First we wanted to attend last year, then we wanted to attend in Barcelona, Spain, but there were no more tickets. Now I am sitting in my hotel room in Orlando, Florida after a long trip getting here. My colleague and I left … Read More