Month: April 2012
Windows 7 Local Logon Trick
By this point most business workstation computers are setup as domain members. If changes need to be made you log on as a domain user with administrative privileges and make system changes. If you need to logon locally for some reason you type the account name in the HOSTNAME\USERNAME format. DOMAIN\USERNAME will then get you […]
Discovering a Cisco Network with CDP (Part 2)
Part one of this two part series talked about walking out your network with CDP. This is useful when all you need to know is the topology of the network equipment its self. The next step in the process is to map out where servers or other hosts are located. The first way of doing […]
Discovering a Cisco Network with CDP (Part 1)
If you have ever been dropped face first into an undocumented Cisco network with little Cisco experience you may have found yourself overwhelmed. Fortunately for admins who have no desire to tone cables or read long mac address tables there is a simple way to map out a network like this. The Cisco Discovery Protocol […]
Remote Cisco Router Change Safty Net
In the networking world you have a lot of opportunity to break things and take down entire buildings, WAN links, etc. Even less risky changes can result in a short break in connectivity while routing protocols re converge and so on. Because we often don’t have physical access to both sites while we are making […]