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Cisco is a provider of switches and routers to commercial consumers. Cisco devices run IOS or NX-OS operating systems. This is a generic tag to be used when no more specific tags are available. See the partial list of tags in the full Tag Wiki.

Cisco is a provider of switches and routers to many medium and large companies. Cisco devices often run IOS or NX-OS operating systems.

Since Cisco acquisition of Linksys, the consumer line of switches, firewalls and routers (which do NOT run IOS) have been rebranded under the Cisco name.

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Puppet Error: undefined method 'captures'

I posted this question on the networkengineering SE site, but it was determined to be off topic.... blah. I'm toying with the idea of using puppet for core network device configuration to increase accuracy of the configs my team is generating. I…
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Google Contacts on IP phones via asterisk PBX

I've skimmed google on this but haven't found anything too useful. Is there a way to use Google Contacts with a HardPhone supported by Asterisk PBX? Google contacts is exposed thru a MSExchange server Thanks
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"Shutdown" in a show running configuration

When you see the word 'shutdown' in the output of a 'show running-config' command on a Cisco router... what does that exactly indicate? My basic assumption would be that it means that interface is shutdown and not operating. Is there more to it than…
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Free monitoring software for Cisco routers?

I'm looking for something i can install on my machine and get the logs from a couple Cisco routers. Whats out there that can connect to my routers and pull logs for quick access without having to go into the SDM? It would be nice to see some graphs…
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How do you allow ICMP Echo Requests on a Cisco ASA 55xx Router?

I'm very new to managing Cisco equipment, so bear with me. I'm configuring a Cisco ASA 5505 router for my office, and I am reasonably competent enough with the console to configure the basics -- our business needs are not extravagant. Our pings are…
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Monitor Size of the CAM Table on a Cisco Switch

We noticed some stray packets from our switch going out ports they should not have. After clearing the cam table with clear mac address-table the problem seems to have gone away. Our best theory at the moment is that the table got flooded at some…
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Cisco ASA Command length

Whenever I write some command in ASA , it hides the full command and show the bit of command . What is the way to increase the length of Commands I write in ASA, so it doesn't hide the command written on the Terminal Session? I tried to google it…
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How can I configure an ASA such that I can use a sub-priviledge 15 user to download the current config from http?

I am setting up our new ASA's at Stack Exchange and am trying to follow some best practices like using configuration management and minimum-permissions-necessary users. What I'm trying to do is utilize the https server to download the running…
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Configuring Frame Relay using a Switch Simulation - Packet Tracer

I have the following set up in Packet Tracer: I am trying to configure frame-relay between the RTR-EDGE router, the RTR_ENG router and the RTR_SAL router using a frame-relay switch simulation (the cloud). I have used the following…
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How do I get past "SFP Validation Failed" on a SFP-GE-T transceiver on a Nexus 5548UP?

I inserted a SFP-GE-T (Gigabit RJ-45) transceiver in my Nexus 5548UP and I got "access down" "SFP Validation Failed" in show interface. According to the Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers Compability Matrix the SFP-GE-T is compatible with the…
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Cisco switch, how to determine MAC address of connected device or wake device up?

switch1#show interfaces descri ... Fa0/13 up up Fa0/14 down down Fa0/15 up up ... (the lights are also on on both ports 13 and…
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CCNA Case Study - Static Routes

I'm currently doing the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) course at school and am a bit stuck on my case study, so I was wondering if anyone could help. I have the following topology: I have set up all the connections to the ones shown…
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Why do I start at privilege level 1 when logging into a Cisco ASA 5510?

I have created a test user that is set to privilege 15 in the config: username test password **************** encrypted privilege 15 When I log in to the ASA 5510 I am in privilege 1 according to sh curpriv: login as: test test@192.168.1.253's…
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How to advertise routes to IPSec tunnels in OSPF using Cisco IOS

I have Cisco 1800 series router (running C181X-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M) with lots of IPSec tunnels. I want to add this router to OSPF and configure it to advertise routes to remote subnets accessible via IPSec tunnels (e.g. if I have tunnel VPN1 with…
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Switch Floods Packets that should be Unicast

I work as a Network Admin in a big company. Lately we noticed an issue with our network infrastructure. Basically our network backend lies on a Catalyst as main L3 backend switch, and few Cisco Nexus switches as edge L2 switches, connected to that…
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