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My name is Mike, I am married to my wife Nathalie and I am soon to be dad! I have worked in IT for about ten years. I started out working as a network technican while I was going to school. I then moved to Chicago and attended Loyola University while I worked as a consultant. I moved back to Michigan, worked as a consultant doing everything from networking to server and workstations. I then took a job with a company as an IT analyst, after a year I was promoted to a Systems Engineer mainly responsible for servers. Today I work as a Senior Network Administrator and systems Engineer.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Don’t have a huge budget, but you want to practice on Cisco gear?

I recommend http://networksims.com/, for what you may spend on dinner you get tons of labs http://networksims.com/em_details.html

This is great for testing and for practicing for Cisco CCNA, CCNP and CCIE!

 

Friday, November 12, 2010

Emulating a WAN connection on Cisco Gear

 

I have two Cisco 2611 routers and I have two Cisco 1721 routers, This will work with a wide variety of Cisco router gear.

On router A, get to priv exec mode, and get to the first serial interface. Issue the commands below on that interface, also don’t forget a valid ip address, subnet mask (12.173.110.2) (255.0.0.0) and lastly issue a no shut to bring the interface up!

interface Serial0
no fair-queue
service-module t1 clock source internal

On router B, get to priv exec mode, and get to the first serial interface. Issue the commands below on that interface, also don’t forget a valid ip address, subnet mask (12.173.110.3) (255.0.0.0) and lastly issue a no shut to bring the interface up!

interface Serial0
no fair-queue
service-module t1 clock source line

 

If you need to make a t1 crossover cable, see below

 

1--4

2--5

3--3 unused

4--1

5--2

6--6 unused

7--7 unused

8--8 unused

Emulating a WAN connection on Cisco Gear

 

I have two Cisco 2611 routers and I have two Cisco 1721 routers, This will work with a wide variety of Cisco router gear.

On router A, get to priv exec mode, and get to the first serial interface. Issue the commands below on that interface, also don’t forget a valid ip address, subnet mask (12.173.110.2) (255.0.0.0) and lastly issue a no shut to bring the interface up!

interface Serial0
no fair-queue
service-module t1 clock source internal

On router B, get to priv exec mode, and get to the first serial interface. Issue the commands below on that interface, also don’t forget a valid ip address, subnet mask (12.173.110.3) (255.0.0.0) and lastly issue a no shut to bring the interface up!

interface Serial0
no fair-queue
service-module t1 clock source line