Ios

Security

Best Practices and Securing Cisco IOS

Everyone has different views on hardening IOS, and while I do not claim to be an expert, these are the practices that I commonly use when bringing up a new device.

2011.09.06 · 8 min
Automation & Tools

IOS Embedded Packet Capture

Tired of setting up SPAN sessions? Need to do some packet analysis? Since IOS 12.4(20)T Cisco has made Embedded Packet Capture (EPC) available.

2011.02.14 · 7 min
Fundamentals

Petition Cisco for Educational IOS Licensing

Greg Ferro of Etheralmind.

2010.07.07 · 1 min
Fundamentals

More IOS Tips

Learning the particulars of Cisco IOS is one of the most valuable things a network engineer can do.

2010.06.09 · 5 min
Automation & Tools

Using the Cisco IOS Archive Command

The Cisco IOS archive command is not only very useful in keeping configuration archives, but it can also be used to log commands entered into the router, along with their user …

2010.06.07 · 3 min
Automation & Tools

Using Regular Expressions on Cisco IOS

As a followup to my previous post on Regular Expression Basics, I wanted to give a few examples on using them on Cisco IOS.

2010.05.16 · 4 min
Security

IOS ACL Resequencing

This is one of those tricks you wish you learned about 10 years ago, but never did. You know how easy it is to mess up a nice looking access list.

2009.11.23 · 4 min
Automation & Tools

An Essential Alias for Forgetful Engineers Like Myself (updated)

How many times a day do you issue a show command from configuration mode ? If you’re anything like me, its enough to get annoying.

2009.07.20 · 1 min
Fundamentals

Demystifying Cisco Config Register Bits

Ever accidentally set your config register to a random value that isn’t in the Cisco documentation? No? Neither have I, but one day I encountered someone on #cisco that had.

2009.06.08 · 1 min
Fundamentals

Cisco IOS Tips and Tricks

So, I’m sure these have been posted almost on every networking blog under the sun, but who knows, right?

2009.05.27 · 3 min
Fundamentals

Cisco IOS Naming Conventions

As I started building this lab, I realized that I had to find a refresher course on the IOS naming conventions.

2009.03.16 · 2 min