What if you want to find out what's taking up your bandwidth but you don't have netflow or any monitoring tool available? All you have if your Cisco router. The answer is NBAR (Network-Based Application Recognition). It is so simple! On the WAN interface, configure terminal interface fa0/4 ip nbar protocol-discovery To see the stats: … Continue reading Monitor your top protocols on your cisco router →

I have been missing in action for the last couple of weeks due to a number of reasons, work, life and currently sick with what seems to be a flu. Pretty busy work schedule aside from driving all the way to the coast, had to ramp up getting my head around the system and our … Continue reading Sunday fever →

For the last three weeks, I have been working on having a couple of Brocade ICX 6110 switches to be deployed as a top of rack switch in one of our Data Centers. I had an amazing opportunity to work on the project which entails doing the templates and research the ideal firmware upgrade on … Continue reading Upgrading Brocades ICX 6110’s FastIron →