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Vim Primer for Network Engineers

Vi is arguably the best text editing software in the world. There, I said it… deal with it! It should be noted that while many people continue to refer to Vi simply as such, Vim …

SNMP can save your life

Ever get locked out of a router or switch that is many hours or even days away? Recently, I had the pleasure, again. For some reason, be it the consultant that was turning up our …

Remote Configuration Tip

I got asked a rather interested question the other day. An engineer needed to make remote configuration changes to a router, but do the commands he needed to run, he would be …

OSPF Graceful Shutdown

Striving to reach that last 9? Looking for a way to increase your uptime while still being able to do maintenance on your network? Wish you could shutdown your OSPF neighbors like …

BGP Tips! multipath load balancing

Previous thoughts on load balancing BGP were that it is not a load balancing protocol and in order to achieve any sort of balanced traffic you would have to perform some sort of …

More IOS Tips

Learning the particulars of Cisco IOS is one of the most valuable things a network engineer can do. These skills will be the basis of everything you do on the lab and on your …

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. You get one setup on the router, …

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. Luckily Cisco has given us the ability to user …

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? Here are a few tips and tricks to help you move around the IOS a bit …