Here’s a quick post highlighting the most important fact about bundle vs install mode. Bundle mode (the old style of using a .bin and booting off of that), mounts the image in memory. Thus it uses up as much memory (RAM) as the image is in size. While install mode (the new style with packages.conf), …
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How to route between VRFs on a Cisco router
This guide is the simplest way to route between 2 VRFs on a Cisco router. I didn’t invent this method as someone showed it to me. Here’s the GNS3 project + images if you want to follow along. https://upw.io/3uh/route-between-vrfs.gns3project Essentially IOU1 is the client with 192.168.1.1, and the default gateway is IOU2. IOU2 PATs …
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Cisco Catalyst Switch Sync time to Windows Domain Controller
Recently I had some issues syncing my switches to the Windows DC PDC Emulator for time. A lot of blogs were saying Windows only supports SNTP and not full blown NTP so we can not! Even Cisco docs say this! These docs are for versions before Windows Server 2008. The only issue I had with …
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GNS3 BGP Route Injector
Here’s how you can inject thousands of routes into BGP with testing GNS3. I recently discovered this blog post where someone created a Ubuntu VM that can do this. Here’s a quick tutorial on how you can get this to work in your network. First of all, credit to the original creator! http://www.stubarea51.net/2016/01/21/put-500000-bgp-routes-in-your-lab-network-download-this-vm-and-become-your-own-upstream-bgp-isp-for-testing/ Now for …
How to replace a 3850 Stack Member and Upgrade the Stack
Here are some clear instructions on replacing a failed 3850 stack member (switch 4 in this case) and upgrading the 3850 stack as well. First, go get the latest recommended image as of 5/1/2018 download link: https://upw.io/2Ve/cat3k_caa-universalk9.16.03.06.SPA.bin 1. Take full backup of switch stack 2. Upgrade stack and new switch (separately) to latest image as …
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How to install Cisco AnyConnect on Fedora 27 Linux
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get the latest anyconnect client installed on Fedora 27 or CentOS 7! Straight to it! 1. Download anyconnect https://upw.io/2Vd/anyconnect-linux64-4.5.05030-predeploy-k9.tar.gz 2. Install pre-req sudo yum install pangox-compat 3. Extract any connect tar -xvf anyconnect-linux64-4.5.05030-predeploy-k9.tar.gz -C anyconnect 4. Install it cd anyconnect cd anyconnect-linux64-4.5.05030 cd vpn sudo ./vpn_install