I’m a big fan of Skyrim 🙂 so, sometimes I will put some codes and clues for that game.

If for some reason you have to leave Lydia and take another person with you and then you want to bring Lydia back you can speed up that process using codes.

• player.moveto a2c94 – will bring you to current Lydia location
• a2c94.moveto player – will bring Lydia to your current location

You might have to split up with Lydia if you need to hire someone else temporarily like in Boethiah quest.

Whole idea for that article came from real environment. At home I have DrayTek Vigor 2850n as my broadband router (and in fact it is really nice piece of equipment). Same time I’m using some Cisco equipment located in remote Lab for testing purposes. Remote Lab is connected to Intrenet and before to get access to devices and systems located there I was using EzVPN. However, as Lab has Cisco ISR as main router I thought, why not to establish L2L IPsec between my home network and remote Lab. Now, question how to do that. I have DrayTek on one end and Cisco ISR on the other. After few attempts, mis-configurations and troubleshooting it did work quite well in fact. So, here it is.

Here is what needs to be achieved:

Equipment available:

• Cisco ISR 2811 – on the left side of the diagram – internal network 10.255.0.0/24
• DrayTek Vigor 2850n – on the right side of the diagram – internal network 10.130.1.0/24

Goal:

• Establish IPsec VPN Tunnel between Cisco and DrayTek to make communication available between 10.255.0.0/24 and 10.130.1.0/24.

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Despite all reservations to iPad as a device which might be useful in day-to-day IT Pro activities (was thinking about it more as a toy than tool) I found it really handy after some time. One of main reasons I found iPad cool IT tool was ability to connect to Cisco console port and configure Cisco devices.

Yes, it is possible to have Cisco console cable which connect to iPad and application which allows to configure Cisco via Console from iPad 🙂

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In one of the previous articles I did quick overview How-to Install vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5 on VMware Workstation 9. One of the reasons I did that in my Lab environment was to run Cisco Nexus 1000v with NX-OS on it and evaluate this operating system and how it can integrate with other products. So, here is quick overview how to make Cisco Nexus 1000v happen on vSphere ESXi.

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Again one of those things which I forget when is needed. Autologon in Windows XP. Funny enough is the fact that each time I’m looking for this information is when I want to prevent Windows XP from auto logon and trying to disable that in registry using remote access from Registry Editor.

Fortunately Microsoft prepared full detailed description, so now I can write down in my scratchpad for future reference instead of using Google each time I need that 😀

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This is one of those things I always forget when is needed. How to redirect console output to telnet session when debugging something on Cisco device.

So, not to forget it I record it for future reference (I guess from now on I will remember that, but well.. what you do… just Murphy’s law)

From telnet session just issue command shown below, and all debug logs will be redirected to telnet session.

R1#terminal monitor
R1#

Recently submitted to BlackBerry AppWorld new application. This time small app which allows to decrypt enc_GroupPwd parameter from Cisco VPN Profile (PCF file).

Awaiting for application approval.. once approved I will add button with link to BlackBerry AppWorld store.

New application will be available for free 🙂

UPDATE: Unfortunatelly application has not been approved to be published in AppWorld without any reasonable explanation.

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As the effect of my attempts to produce some small applications in Adobe Flex, I commited decryptor for type 7 passwords stored on Cisco devices.

Using this small app you can decode:

• wireless keys fro Cisco access points,
• RADIUS/TACACS shared secrets
• NTP authentication keys
• Enable passwords (NOT enable secrets, which are stored using MD5).

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So, I’m doing my first attempts to write some simple apps in Adobe Flex using Flash Builder 4.6. One of funny things I came across was how to generate open file dialog windows and get name of the file which user picked from dialog windows. I guess still have to get used to specific way Flex applications are developed.

Here is quick code snippet of the tiny application which allows to open file dialog box and pick file. File dialog window will be OS specific.

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So, finally I got 6 brand new Cisco 1142n wireless access points. They all are lightweight access points, which means that more less Wireless Controller is required to get them to work. Unfortunatelly due to many circumstances I have purchase of Wireless Controller delayed, so for now have to turn all of those into autonomus wireless devices. That means that IOS has to be replaced on those devices to allow 1142n be fully configured.

• Original software which came on devices was: c1140-rcvk9w8-mx.
• New software I had to deploy on all of them to make them autonomus is: c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.

But how the whole process happenes? Here are all steps I took to make lightweight AP become autonomus wireless access point:

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