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Cisco


April 7, 2009  5:35 PM

Epic Technology Day – April 21st, 2009



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Cisco, Citrix, epic technology day, HP, seminar, vmware

For those not familiar with this event, my company hosts a bi-yearly technology day seminar. It's a great free event with lots of interesting and informative seminars presented by companies like Cisco, VMware, Citrix, HP and others.  The next one is coming up on April 21st in Winnipeg and the 23rd...

March 19, 2009  1:21 PM

Cisco buying Pure Digital



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Cisco, pure digital

Here is a link to the article: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/19/cisco-puredigital.html During a global economic recession Cisco is acting in a very aggressive manner, buying up a company, investing in others, trying to enter new markets like Blade servers and Mail Exchangers. This...


March 9, 2009  3:31 PM

ASA 5520 not Nat’ing traffic



Posted by: Jason Tramer
ACL, ASA, Cisco, Factory-default reset, NAT

A colleague of mine and I were setting up and configuring an ASA 5520. We ran through the basic setup wizard and set up the preliminary NAT and access rules and found we could get out to the Internet. The ASA itself could access Internet resources but we on the inside connection could not. So of...


March 9, 2009  3:11 PM

Cisco ASA – Remote Access VPN not getting reserved address from DHCP



Posted by: Jason Tramer
ASA, Cisco, Cisco ASA - Remote Access VPN not getting reserved address from DHCP, DHCP, VPN

I have configured a Cisco ASA 5520 in an environment where the remote users need to get statically assigned IP addresses. In the past this was done by using MAC address reservations on the DHCP server. In replacing their old firewall and putting in the ASA what I have found is that even though...