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July 8, 2008  12:00 PM

Cisco Feature Comparison Tool



Posted by: Joshua Wood
Cisco, Routers, Switches

The need for more robust hardware is always a struggle. Cisco hardware is very exspensive so you always want to do more with it than you origianlly intended. What seems to always end up happening for me is that I load the IOS with just the features that I need and then later I need to a feature...

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June 7, 2008  12:50 AM

Sample HP Procurve Configuration



Posted by: Joshua Wood
HP ProCurve, Microsoft Windows, Switches

So everyone probably knows how to setup a switch. You plug them in and away they go right. Wellll, that is mostly true. While they will work if you use them that way you won't really get the value out of a higher-end switch if you do do that. In this post I run through the basics of configuring...

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May 30, 2008  2:56 AM

How-to Set the Time on Your Servers and Routers



Posted by: Joshua Wood
Cisco, HP ProCurve, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Routers, Switches

(Windows, Cisco and HP Procurve) Time synchronization on your network gear is very important. Logs, IPSec tunnels and other services rely on the correct time to make sure that they are doing their jobs properly and securely. In order to synchronize the time your network gear (routers and...

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