Monthly Archives: March 2013

Creating SSH keys on a Cisco PIX (how retro!)

Today I was faced with replacing an old Cisco PIX 515 (not the 515E) with another equally old Cisco PIX 515, equipped with a mighty 32MB RAM and only capable of single DES. With its FOS 6.4 operating system compiled … Continue reading

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Cisco PPP Revision Lab

Another day of ongoing study brings me to the ‘Wide Area Network’ topics such as Frame-Relay and PPP. I’m using GNS3 which makes the whole process a bit easier to demonstrate the concepts and help it become less theoretical and … Continue reading

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Are Cisco moving EIGRP into the public domain?

It looks as if Cisco may be moving their proprietary distance vector based EIGRP into the public domain. EIGRP is quick and easy to deploy, but is only available on Cisco devices – Maybe this will make it more popular? … Continue reading

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EIGRP Authentication on Frame Relay (just for recreation!)

As part of my ongoing studies I’ve been looking at running EIGRP over a hybrid Frame-Relay network. This is mainly an exercise in switching off split horizon – and a very long winded way of getting there. Whilst doing the … Continue reading

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Nagios jitter testing

As part of our new SLA we are required to test and repost on jitter across the core of our network on a per MPLS VPN basis. That seemed ok to start with, but a Nagios does not have an … Continue reading

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IPv6 Tunnel using BGP on a Cisco 877

The last post was about basic IPv6 tunnelling using GRE and a static route from the ISP router to the Cisco 887 at the remote site. That all worked , but lacked ‘interest’. I had considered putting in a Cisco … Continue reading

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