by skufel | May 18, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network
When I got cisco 881w first time it was interesting experience. This device presented new concept which was different to model I knew so far, which is 871w. In 881w router module and wireless module are separated. With that being said, router configuration and access...
by skufel | May 18, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Windows
Recently was migrating RADIUS server on Windows from one machien to another. Once new serer was ready had to reconfigure Cisco router to authenticate remote users against new RADIUS. After pointing Cisco to new RADIUS machine made a quick test to check if router can...
by skufel | May 9, 2012 | Infrastructure, Linux, Network, SysAdmin
Just quick config snippet for Debian 6.0 which I came across when setting up few Debian Linux 6.0 virtual machines for recent network LAB. By default network adapter is set to get IP address from DHCP. /etc/network/interfaces – dynamic IP address configuration #...
by skufel | Mar 1, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
In previous articles in the RANCID series I described: How to install RANCID on openSUSE Add devices to RANCID So, we have RANCID collecting configuration from network devices to repository with version control. Only question is how to get access and make use of...
by skufel | Jan 23, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
Some time ago I described How to : Install RANCID on openSUSE 11.4 “Celadon”. However, just after installation RANCID will do nothing without proper configuration. So, in this lab I will show how to: create group of devices in rancid add information about...
by skufel | Jan 9, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network
Recently I went through troubleshooting of Site-to-Site Layer-2 link. One of the things we did during troubleshooting of that link was checking interface statistics for interfaces which were connecting two geographical sites together. Below quick overview how ot check...