I have spent the last 10-15 years working in a predominantly Cisco environment. I think their products are great, but are not cheap. I think it comes down to the old line ‘you get what you pay for’, and Cisco certainly delivers. That’s at work….. At home I look at alternatives. So when I was […]

How many times have you typed in the wrong command on a Cisco router, and then have to wait while the DNS lookup times out because the route is trying to resolve that ‘domain’? Yeah me too. Easy to fix … Simply enter global configuration mode and type router(config)# no ip domain-lookup And the result […]

There’s nothing better than a router sim that has the full Cisco command set available to utilise. All of the router sims (up to now) have a stripped down collection of commands to use. I stumbled on this website a few weeks ago. It’s an open source product that runs on Windows and Linux boxes, […]

Forget the default password for a router? Or are you helping a friend with a problem who has no idea about networking – and has called you for assistance? Check out this site for quite a large list of popular routers and their default passwords.

Routers at a remote location can be safely configured by using a reload command first. Huh? Read on….. Before any configuration changes are made, issue a reload command to the remote router: reload in 30 Instructs the router to reboot in 30 minutes. or reload at 00:00 to reload at a specific time. The idea […]