Lab

Fundamentals

Cisco VIRL released into the wild

After much waiting from all of us, Cisco has released, on “cyber Monday” no less, VIRL.

2014.12.03 · 3 min
Fundamentals

Setting up a Cisco Access Server

Whether your networking lab has 3 devices or 30 an access server, also commonly called a terminal server, is the vital connection between you and those devices.

2011.01.24 · 5 min
Fundamentals

Connecting Dynamips to your local network (OSX)

Ever wanted direct network access to your Dynamips lab? Have you ever needed to lab something that used the SDM, but you run Dynamips under OSX?

2010.04.05 · 3 min
Fundamentals

JunOS Olive Demonstration

As a follow up to my JunOS Olive tutorial, I made a demonstration video that shows Multicast functioning via OSPF to another Olive and an ImageStream VM.

2009.10.04 · 1 min
Fundamentals

Running JunOS under VMWare (updated – again!)

Interested in trying out JunOS? Can’t afford to build a real Juniper lab? Sounds like you need some Olives.

2009.10.04 · 5 min
Fundamentals

Cisco VOIP Basics

This is the first part of my Cisco voip basics series.

2009.08.20 · 5 min
Fundamentals

Configuring a Cisco Router as a Frame Relay Switch

One of the most effective lab setups uses frame relay as its primary transport method.

2009.08.06 · 2 min
Fundamentals

Setting up VOIP lab

This week I’ve started setting up a VOIP lab to explore the technology and when I’m done, I plan to integrate it into my home network.

2009.06.13 · 1 min
Fundamentals

Working on my new lab setup

So, I purchased a couple extra routers, and a second layer3 switch from @usedciscoguy.

2009.05.19 · 2 min