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!
Routing Protocol Basics
I wanted to take the opportunity to post some core basics for those of you just getting started with Cisco and routing protocols. The table below shows the protocol, the type of routing protocal and the default administrative distance of that protocol.
Matching Processes to Listening Ports on Windows
Do you really know what is running in the background on your Windows PC or server? Not knowing is how security holes perpetuate themselves into serious issues. While ignorance may be blissful someone else may be poking around your networking looking for a way in. With Windows systems it’s easy to list listening sockets that […]
Tail Cat and Grep Your Log Files
I recently treated myself to a long overdue syslog server for our network devices. The system is on a Linux system (I would have it no other way) and has been instrumental to troubleshooting and auditing these past few weeks. You can read this article for some log parsing tricks ranging from basic to a […]