Cisco Router and IOS How To’s

Welcome to CellStream’s Cisco Router and IOS How-To Resource Center. This collection of articles, configuration examples, troubleshooting guides, and practical tutorials is designed to help network engineers, technicians, students, and IT professionals better understand, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco networking equipment.

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Maintenance with the ‘show diag’ command in Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 1,904 Routine maintenance is the underpinning of any well run network. Through routine maintenance, consistency, predictability and standardization all result allowing the network to operate as expected and in times of fault, makes a better troubleshooting environment. As part of any routine maintenance activity, Cisco provides several commands to help. One less known […]

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Leveraging Logging for Troubleshooting Using Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 4,401 Whenever we teach our Hands-On courses, we always have a section of the course that discusses troubleshooting the network or technology the class is learning. A key part of troubleshooting any network is knowing the technology, no argument. But even the masters of technologies like Multicasting, or IP Networking, or MPLS, still

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Service Timestamps in Logging in Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 4,275 You can use the service timestamps command to create timestamps on the router’s log files. Since version 11.3, the Cisco IOS has enabled certain timestamps by default, so most of us have this on. However, there are additional timestamps options that you can enable as well as places where timestamps are probably

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Keeping VPN SA’s Refreshed in Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 1,155 Many people are using VPN technology today to ensure data confidentiality between remote locations. When using a site-to-site type VPN (say between a Router and a Firewall), a common complaint among end users is intermittent delay before VPN traffic is successful. This is usually due to Security Associations (SA) becoming too old

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Spanning Tree Protocol Configuration Basics in Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 1,488 As many of our students and clients have learned, Spanning Tree in Layer 2 Ethernets is a basic control protocol that removes logical loops from physically looped networks creating the Spanning Tree. This How To focuses on the essential configuration commands in Cisco IOS that you need to know to manage Spanning

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IP Spoofing Security Tip in Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 2,172 All router administrators need to take whatever security precautions they can to prevent attacks to their systems and networks. While these attacks are a continually moving target, a common attack to IP networks is called IP Spoofing. This is accomplished by sending IP packets into the network with source addresses that appear

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Cisco IOS Order of Operations for NAT and QoS

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Post Views: 2,618 When learning Cisco IOS, students often ask, what happens if there is conflicting information? Cisco IOS order of operations plays an important role in how a router processes traffic and makes choices, especially if there are two possible answers. If you’re simply using the most basic features of the router, chances are

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CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE error Quick Fix in Cisco IOS

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Post Views: 3,285 In this article, I will explain steps to correct a CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE error in Cisco IOS. \If you are like many users of the latest IOS, you may find your routers constantly outputting a message like this: cell_pe1# %Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out) 19:20:43: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg) failed The reason

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