Posts Tagged ‘ cisco ’

CCIE R&S Written – Epic WIN!

August 23, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

The wife and I had a romantic day driving several hours to a small town to take Cisco exams. If this doesn't get me some action, I don't know what else to try.

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OSPF Notes – Neighbor States

June 1, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

My prediction about covering network types was wrong. I'm going to puke out some information about neighbor states for now. As is always the case, corrections are welcome.

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OSPF Notes – LSA Types

June 1, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Yes, it is inevitable that I cover these. I'm sure network types will be next.

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OSPF Notes – Message Types

June 1, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I have had my nose deep in several books in preparation for my CCIE R&S written exam, so I haven't been blogging much at all. Now that I've made it to the more familiar topics, I'm hoping to get some notes posted. I'll start with OSPF message types.

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Home-grown IOU Scripts

May 16, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I'm sure you've all heard of Cisco IOU by now, and I'm finally catching up with the other bloggers of the world by mentioning it. It's an executable version of an IOS image that runs on a Unix (or Unix-like) platform and it's the backend behind Cisco's Learning Labs.

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Cisco Live 2011 Schedule

April 29, 2011
By Aaron Conaway
Cisco Live 2011 Schedule

For the first time ever, I’m headed to Cisco Live – the big Cisco users conference in Las Vegas! I usually don’t go to these things since I wind up just hanging out by myself, but I’m meeting all sorts of people there – from bloggers to Tweeps to personal friends. It should be...

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Stubby Post – Final Tally of 3750 Failures

March 18, 2011
By Aaron Conaway
Stubby Post – Final Tally of 3750 Failures

It’s pretty widely known that I hate Cisco 3750 switches. We’ve had so many hardware and software failures with them that I’ve got a seriously bad taste in my mouth. Since I’m leaving for a new company, I thought I’d publish some statistics while I still have access to the numbers. Total TAC cases...

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Stubby Post – Cisco IOS Petition

February 11, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Greg Ferro has brought back the petition for Cisco to provide an emulator to the community for learning.  Since our current and only family of emulators is well on its way to oblivion, I ask that we all take the time and sign this petition.  To use a cliché, we need to act now...

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Stubby Post – Changing the Prompt on the ASA

January 19, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

RichardF commented on an article I wrote last November and mentioned the prompt command in the ASA. I never set aside any time to research it, but I finally took the time today while waiting for a maintenance window.

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Stubby Post – Null VTP Domain Scare

January 5, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Remember a few weeks back when I had a bad day?  I was actually at HQ that day to do some work for a project, but that got put off due to the extenuating circumstances.  When we finally got back around to do the work, we wound up adding a switch in the data...

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