Ok, I've decieded what to do next after CCNA Security certification. I will give myself this year to acheive CCNP certification. I have access to CBT Nuggets through work so I will use that to get my CCNP exams.
Wish me luck.
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Cisco Terminal Server
Today I have been setting up my new secure management network. This consists of a little segment behind a firewall that I will VPN to to get console access to critical routers in the network.
I had a 32 ASYNC module from ages ago and went about configuring it.
Mostly it was reasonably straight forward but I seemed to remember something about setting the modem type. So far I could get console access onto my PIx firewall and an old 2600 router acting as the console server. I just couldn't get the console on the switch working.
As it turns out, if you set the modem to DialIn then that gets the switch console working.
Useful information for anyone out there trying this.
I had a 32 ASYNC module from ages ago and went about configuring it.
Mostly it was reasonably straight forward but I seemed to remember something about setting the modem type. So far I could get console access onto my PIx firewall and an old 2600 router acting as the console server. I just couldn't get the console on the switch working.
As it turns out, if you set the modem to DialIn then that gets the switch console working.
Useful information for anyone out there trying this.
Friday 8 January 2010
Blast from the Past
I managed to stumble across this famous piece of writing from the formative years of the commercial Internet...
http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration
I remember reading that whilst trying to patch together my degree at university, the same place I learnt about the Internet and how big it was. Of course the Internet of the early 90s fame was far different from the one most people know today. Yet even then the potential of the medium was overwhelming to me a struggling computing student.
The very concept of near instant communication over the entire globle using email was astounding. I remember showing my sister the joys of real time chat to random people in Perth. Of course this was before IM or even the web. This was back when search was via Archie.au and you could finger university servers to see who was logged in then 'talk' to them directly.
Wow, what a flashback. How things have changed. Now almost everything is web based, just like everything is TCP/IP. I guess it's nice to have a little perspective and understand a bit about where things have come from.
http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration
I remember reading that whilst trying to patch together my degree at university, the same place I learnt about the Internet and how big it was. Of course the Internet of the early 90s fame was far different from the one most people know today. Yet even then the potential of the medium was overwhelming to me a struggling computing student.
The very concept of near instant communication over the entire globle using email was astounding. I remember showing my sister the joys of real time chat to random people in Perth. Of course this was before IM or even the web. This was back when search was via Archie.au and you could finger university servers to see who was logged in then 'talk' to them directly.
Wow, what a flashback. How things have changed. Now almost everything is web based, just like everything is TCP/IP. I guess it's nice to have a little perspective and understand a bit about where things have come from.
Thursday 7 January 2010
A Difficult Choice
I have made a new years resolution to blog more...
I am coming up on ten years in my current job. Logic says its time for a change but after ten years, change is a difficult thing to contemplate. I have the problem of having reasonable job satisfaction coupled with the nagging sensation that I could do better. Add to that the fact that I can't easily define my current position and it makes the thought of changing jobs daunting.
I have considered network engineer, generic manager, project manager and can't think of what else.
Any ideas? I had been waiting for my boss to move up the food chain but I fear he's in the same boat as me, likes what he does, reluctant to move and just in a cushy place.
I have recently aquired my CCNA Security specialization but I just can't see work rating that worth of a pay increase considering I'm not a network engineer.
Oh the pain of it all.
I am coming up on ten years in my current job. Logic says its time for a change but after ten years, change is a difficult thing to contemplate. I have the problem of having reasonable job satisfaction coupled with the nagging sensation that I could do better. Add to that the fact that I can't easily define my current position and it makes the thought of changing jobs daunting.
I have considered network engineer, generic manager, project manager and can't think of what else.
Any ideas? I had been waiting for my boss to move up the food chain but I fear he's in the same boat as me, likes what he does, reluctant to move and just in a cushy place.
I have recently aquired my CCNA Security specialization but I just can't see work rating that worth of a pay increase considering I'm not a network engineer.
Oh the pain of it all.
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