Author: jac

Aaron does lots of stuff and, therefore, does nothing well. He's trying, though. https://masto.ai/@aconaway

I’ve been trying to get some experience on Cisco VOIP, and, as you probably know, Quality of Service (QoS) is quite important in that realm. Since VOIP is very time-sensitive, you have to be sure your gear delivers the voice packets first. A packet in…

I use Google Analytics to track the 2 or 3 hits I get a day, and sometimes I see some interesting search terms. Yesterday, some googled up the term “does the ASA 5505 run HSRP”; I think that deserves a short article. The ASA and…

Let’s keep going with our example setup on the ASA 5505 and set up DHCP on this guy. You can set it up to either forward (relay) DHCP requests to a DHCP server somewhere or have it be the DHCP server. Let’s do it. To…

I’ve had my ASA 5505 in place at home on my Comcast cable for a few weeks now, and, let me tell you, this thing rocks. I did, however, have a few problems finding a clear answer on how I could set up my VLANs.…

I finally got my ASA 5505 up and running at the house, but I ran into a little problem — the box wouldn’t add the DHCP-provided default route into its routing table.  That one threw me for a loop since the box is made for…

Believe it or not, I got a request for an article on how to configure GLBP. I’m as shocked as you are, so here it goes. The Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP) is another Cisco-proprietary protocol for providing highly-available gateways on a network…but there’s a…

If you didn’t now already, trunks are connections between switches that carry traffic for all VLANs. It allows you to have, say, VLAN 10 and VLAN 20 on two switches appear as the same network. Unless you’re a really small shop, you’ve already dealt with…

HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) is a Cisco-proprietary method for supplying a highly-available gateway for hosts to use. GLBP (Gateway Load Balancing Protocol) does the same thing. So, what’s the difference? HSRP works on layer 3 and provides a standby IP address for hosts on…

GRE tunnels rock.  They are interfaces on a router that are used to “connect” to another router somewhere on your LAN, your WAN, the Internet, wherever.  The most popular use for them is for router-to-router VPNs. I’ll let my friend Josh from blindhog.net show you…

I was configuring a switch the other day and realized I had configured a trunk on the wrong port. God, I hate that. Instead of dumping the configuration for the port and doing a “no” on each line, I used the default command. Switch(config)#default interface…