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Cisco adopting strategies to compete in the small business line

Cisco is almost synonymous with big business in the network infrastructure market but recently they have really been working to make themselves more friendly to the SMB market.

Here is a good article about that:

 http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09…

Working at a consulting company that is a Cisco partner and has a large focus on small business I find that there are a lot of great Cisco products in the price range my client’s look for.

The ASA 5505 for example is a great little firewall with a lot of good features and price was is right on the mark and  often cheaper then equivalent Watchguard and Sonicwall products. As well  the UC500 Integrated services voip router is a great solution for a small business who wants a voice solution with a reasonable cost, particularly if they need a primary router/firewall and/or small wireless solution in any case.

Cisco Router - Upload and IOS image from ROMMON mode

If you ever delete your IOS image and the system reboots before you get the new one on or if you upload the image and it is corrupt you will need to know how to upload an image from ROMMON mode.

Here are a sample of the commands, replace the entries with your specifics:

rommon 1 > IP_ADDRESS=192.168.1.5
rommon 2 > IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0
rommon 3 > DEFAULT_GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
rommon 4 > TFTP_SERVER=192.168.1.10
rommon 5 > TFTP_FILE=c2600-adventerprisek9-mz.124-5a.bin
rommon 6 > tftpdnld (this command kicks off the tftp download)