Similar to a Windows or Linux operating systems, the Cisco IOS is rooted in Unix and has its own list of commands to manipulate files. These commands are very similar to DOS/Windows commands. Files could be your IOS router operating system executable, configuration file(s), or other type of IOS file. Knowing these file commands is […]
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What is EtherChannel? EtherChannel technology is another way for you to increase the bandwidth of your core network links and provide redundancy of LAN links. It allows you to achieve greater speed by bundling Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet links, which makes a switch or router use the merged ports as a single port. This
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No one wants it to happen but, sooner or later, you will experience a router crash. When you do, you will want to be prepared to save that critical router memory information in order to find out why the router crashed and prevent future crashes. To do this, you need to configure your router to
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Anyone who has network admin access can make changes to the running configuration on a router or switch at any time. If you are running a large IT shop or in charge of just a few folks, this feature will enable you to control the concurrent changes to your running configuration. Exclusive Configuration Change Access,
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Sometimes, we need to transfer IOS from one router/platform to another. Other times, we can end up in Rommon> prompt because an IOS download failed of similar issue. Let’s start with a stranded router. It is strongly suggested that you get a PCMCIA memory card, insert it into a good router. From priviledged mode on
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In this article, I will explain steps to correct a CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE error in Cisco IOS. \If you are like many users of the latest IOS, you may find your routers constantly outputting a message like this: cell_pe1# %Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out) 19:20:43: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg) failed The reason for this message
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This How To discusses how to set up one Cisco Router as a PKI Server and one Cisco Router as a client. That’s right, you can set up a Cisco router as a Certificate Authority (CA) and then set up other routers as clients to use that CA to authenticate on your network. The advantage
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CAR — or “rate limiting” — is a method for managing unwanted traffic on your network and making sure it doesn’t affect important traffic. Essentially, CAR controls the bandwidth of a certain type of traffic, and an access control list (ACL) defines which traffic it controls. Once you’ve created the ACL, you can set CAR
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As VoIP becomes more widely used in the enterprise, the number of voice calls traversing the enterprise WAN becomes larger and larger. Typically the use of a proper codec is implemented to reduce the amount of bandwidth a voice call requires. The most commonly used codec for WAN voice traffic is called G.729. While there
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Show Version is a great command for routers, switches or PIX firewalls. Here is a look at all the things you can verify with the show version command: On Routers Cisco switches PIX firewalls We hope this helps and saves you time finding all this information by putting it in one place! Comments are welcomed
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This short and sweet How To explains how to configure the DHCP Client in IOS. This is done using a single command. Go to the interface configuration: Router(config-if)#ip address dhcp Some service providers might ask you to use a client-id and/or a hostname of their own choice. This can be done by adding the following
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This How To will describe the most common configuration needed for Cisco IOS to create a DHCP (IPv4) server on your switch or router. Before You Start Before you configure the DHCP address pool, you need to: •Identify DHCP options for devices where necessary, including the following: –Default boot image name –Default routers –Domain Name
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When a router learns multiple routes to a specific network via multiple routing processes (or routing protocols, such as RIP, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF), it installs the route with the lowest administrative distance in the routing table. Load balancing is a standard functionality of the router software, and is available across all router platforms.
A common question folks ask is “How do you check the bandwidth utilization on a router?” It is a great question and the answer is not as easy as you would expect. There are tools that accomplish this (i.e. NetFlow and there is another mentioned at the end of this page). However, without those tools,
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The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) allows internal and external networks or autonomous systems (AS’s) to exchange routes. BGP is a path-vector routing protocol, which simply means that its job is to exchange routing information between autonomous systems to find the most efficient path for your data to the Internet. Each BGP router connects to its
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