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Backup Cisco Configurations with SSH on Windows

I have done a brief write-up about backing up Cisco IOS configurations over an SSH connections in the past. Unfortunately, this article was based on expect, a Linux utility. There is, however, a similar but simpler way to accomplish the same thing on windows. Continue reading

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Capturing Traffic with the Cisco ASA

I have written quite a few things lately about capturing traffic so why not write another? This time we will be taking a look at capturing data from another key place in the network; the firewall. Continue reading

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Cisco Switch SPAN Port Filtering

If you have a bit of familiarity Cisco switches you may have configured a SPAN port or a monitor session in the past. A basic span port is very useful in capturing packets or passively monitoring and is a requirement for some web filtering services such as Websense. Today, I want to focus on the SPAN session from a packet capturing standpoint.

If we mirror a switch port that sees a high volume of traffic simply mirroring all of that traffic to our packet capturing port could be too much for our capture system to consume. Fortunately, there is a way to do this through access control lists on the switch itself. Continue reading

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Disable Domain Lookup on Typos

Don’t you hate when you type a command incorrectly and your Cisco IOS device seems to take forever to time out and give you back control? There is a way around this without fully disabling domain lockups! Continue reading

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