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

Wireless Headsets

We all have these at our desks. Not the bluetooth guys for your [tag]phone[/tag] (we could talk about that for a while), but the 900MHz headsets that your company gave you for those long and annoying calls with the boss. These things rocks, but they are oh-so [tag]

Basic Logging on an IOS Device

I’ve been looking around at some lists and forums for technical help on Cisco gear, and one thing keeps coming up — people new to [tag]Cisco[/tag] devices don’t know how to look at logs. The [tag]logs[/tag] are your friends and a great tool. You can

Pakistan and YouTube -- What Happened?

BGP has issues; the main one being transitive [tag]trust[/tag]. [tag]BGP[/tag] works by having networks (companies, providers, etc.) advertise [tag]routes[/tag] that it owns to its peers. These peers pass those routes on to their peers, ad nauseum, until everyone knows what networks everyone has. The

Can't Login to Your ASA via SSH or Telnet?

I deployed a Cisco ASA at a location and couldn’t get logged in via SSH. I would get prompted, but, no matter what username/password I put in, it would just reject me. After some digging, it turns out that I forgot this command. aaa authentication ssh console LOCAL

Remembering the Little Things

Back in the day, when I used to put a new piece of IOS-based gear on the network, I would have to go through the gear already in production to remember what all those “little configurations” were that kept the devices running. Guess how many times I remembered to set

The Cisco Network Hierarchical Model

I got my CCNP certification library the other day to finally get myself another cert, so I’ve been doing some reading of late. The thing I hate about certs is that, even if you have all the experience in the world, there’s always a whole mess of academic

Does Your Neighbor's Cordless Phone Interfere with Your Wifi?

That’s nothing compared to this. NetworkWorld has an article by John Cox about the [tag]NFL[/tag]’s Game Day Frequency Coordinators who make sure that everyone at the Super Bowl can use their [tag]wireless[/tag] devices without stepping on toes. Imagine coordinating 2,000 different frequencies for