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Nov 20, 2010 - General, Networking    No Comments

SCP

As people have become more security concious with the transfer of data, in particular on the Enterprise/Corporate environments security teams are tightening down more and more on the use of insecure protocols. As a result the old favourites of TFTP/FTP etc are being removed. A number of replacements exist SCP/SFTP and to all intense and purpose facilitate the transfer of data.

scp file.txt user@xxxxxxxxxxx:/home/user/.

and

scp user@xxxxxxxxxxx:/home/user/file.txt .

Sep 29, 2010 - General, Networking    No Comments

Send break through Windows Telnet

I have recently been building a number of devices as well as reconfiguring some old devices form stores. One of the issues in reusing pre-configured devices is that you may not know the password. Easy you say if these are Cisco devices just following the password recovery procedure by going into ROMMON. You are right however first I need to send a break sequence during the boot up of the device! Read more »

Oct 22, 2008 - General    No Comments

Hello world!

Hello and welcome to the blog pages, this is an area to put down any thoughts, ideas or technical details that I come across in my day to day life. I plan to detail things that I find useful, troubleshooting scenarios that I have used or come across.  As a idea of things that I might comments on;

  • Cisco data networking details (Routers/Switches/MDS/ONS)
  • DNS/DHCP
  • Network Management
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • Scripts

In reality it is open to what I fancy writing about.

Happy reading and if you would like to suggest a topic just drop me a note.

Rob