Tag Archives: Cisco

Network virtualization and the DMZ paradigm

The virtualization buzz I have recently worked on network virtualization. Many people, especially the network guys, have been recently excited with the VMware Vswitch or Cisco Nexus stuff.  It is something that I understand because virtualization is cool. It brings many convenient features that truly make the life easier. But what about the security? Convenience [...]

Packetlife.net

I added a new link to Packetlife.net, which is a really amazing website about networking, with focus on Cisco stuff. The work that the author made is truly impressive : blog, cheat sheets, gentle forum and even a lab (I haven’t test because I don’t need it, but if you are a student, it is [...]

Netios 0.73

Netios 0.73 fixes some bugs and Complete changelog : 2010-02-10  (0.73) Jean-Christophe Baptiste <jc@phocean.net> * remove useless options * fix various bugs Check there (tools page) for more details and a download link.

Netios 0.72

Netios 0.72 fixes some bugs with the show_run mode and large config files. I also found some issues concerning the prompt detection, so it should be fixed now. Complete changelog : 2010-01-14  (0.72) Jean-Christophe Baptiste <jc@phocean.net> * ciscoclass.py : forgot to remove a debug print * ciscoclass.py : finish and fix a bunch of bugs [...]

Netios 0.71

I release a new version of Netios : 0.71. There are a lot of changes, starting with cosmetics, but the biggest one is the support of multiprocessing. It is now able to process several routers at the same time, so using it on a large list of machines results in a big speed up. A [...]

Netios

I just released an alpha release of a little tool that may help network administrators with a large park of Cisco routers or switches : Netios is a little tool aimed to help network administrators to administrate a large number of Cisco network devices. Providing it with a list of equipments, it connects within SSH [...]

Cisco configuration buffer full

I got this weired message while trying to save a configuration : Looks scary at first, but normally it should be solved with a single command : I guess that there are little chances the issue remains after that, but if so, well, you may be in trouble…

Netflow on MLS switches

I had some trouble today at office with monitoring flows going through a MLS switch. The Nfsen collector was working well for our routers, but I came to realize there were something definitely wrong with the traffic going through a Cisco 6500 switch. The traffic reported was way below the real one. After some research, [...]