Organization, Schmorganization!

25 03 2008

I am trying to gather up my blogs and posts and condense them into something usable here. I tend to be a bit frenetic about what I write about. Right now, it’s all about firewalls and I’m working on a study guide for SNPA. I find firewalls interesting and confounding all at once and I just have to understand them better. I’m especially interested in learning more about IDS/IPS. In the meantime, I will go ahead and post a collection of links I’ve stumbled upon lately that have been helpful.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/index.shtml – Links to Password Recovery Procedures for All Cisco Devices
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/ssh.shtml – Tutorial on How to Configure SSH in Cisco IOS – Add greater security to your network by accessing your devices using SSH, not telnet!

http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/EEM?page=main – Cisco Embedded Event Manager Scripting Community – Can you script in Ciscoland? Of course, and it can help with troubleshooting as well.

http://www.blindhog.net/ – My latest favorite site for Cisco tutorials. I have especially been enjoying their series using the gns3 network device emulator. It’s free and as long as you have access to IOS images, it’s easy to create a virtual test lab.

http://www.garethevans.info/products/acleditor – Gareth Evan’s ACL Editor – I stumbled upon this while trying to learn ACL’s for my CCNA exam. This gentleman wrote an ACL editor that simplifies creating ACL’s as a college project. At the time I downloaded it, it was free, but I see that he is charging a small fee for it now, although it does have a free 30-day trial.