Cisco 3750 Delayed Power On
Last week I un-racked a Cisco 3750 (WS-C3750G-24TS) from our datacenter and brought it over to our office. This device had been running reliably at the datacenter for over a year. When I went to...
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Cisco PIX/ASA ASDM Troubles with Java
Over the past few months I have been annoyed by ASDM bug CSCsv12681 which causes pretty much all versions of ASDM to fail on any machine that gets upgraded to a recent Java version: Error while loading...
View ArticleCisco PIX/ASA VPN Client for 64 Bit Windows
For quite some time now I have been annoyed at Cisco for not releasing a 64 bit edition of their IPSec VPN client. As far as I am concerned, their plan has been to force everyone over to the...
View ArticleCisco ASA 5510 8.2 AnyConnect License Price ASA-AC-E-5510
As a follow-up to a previous post, I am happy to report that Cisco has finally posted the bits to the ASA 8.2 code online for download. I have been looking forward to this, as this release includes a...
View ArticleFinally Got My Cisco ASA 5510 AnyConnect Essentials License
After waiting for several weeks for Cisco to fufill my license code order (for ASA-AC-E-5510) I finally got the code in an email today! Using the product authorization key to generate an activation...
View ArticleCisco Netflow to tell who is using Internet bandwidth
When working with telecom circuits that are slow and “expensive” (relative to lan circuits), the question frequently comes up “What is using up all of our bandwidth?”. Many times this is asked because...
View ArticleAre blade servers right for my environment?
IT like most industries has it’s “fad”s. Whether it be virtualization, or SAN’s, or blade servers. Granted these three technologies play really nicely together, but once in a while you need to get...
View ArticleAdvanced PING usage on Cisco, Juniper, Windows, Linux, and Solaris
As a network engineer, one of the most common utilities I use is the ping command. While in its simplest form it is a very valuable tool, there is much more knowledge that can be gleaned from it by...
View ArticleCisco AnyConnect Split-DNS resolution not working in Snow Leopard 10.6
I just upgraded my Cisco AnyConnect client on my ASA 5510 to 2.4.0202 hoping that the VPN would work for my users with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, but it would appear they are having DNS resolution...
View ArticleCisco ASA 8.0.5 TFTP Unspecified Error using PumpKIN
I have run into a problem on two separate ASA’s now downloading code to them using the PumpKIN TFTP server. It get’s part way through the download and dies (at different places each time so it’s an...
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