Archive for January, 2009

Academy vs. Industrial Cisco CCNA programs

January 30th, 2009 by Tilen Mlakar


Before I started working for NIL as a Cisco Systems Instructor, I lectured at a local Cisco Networking Academy (CNA) as an academy instructor. When I came to NIL, I found out that CNA was not very well-known among my new colleagues. That’s why I decided to emphasize some differences ...

Dance around the IOS bugs with EEM and Tcl

January 27th, 2009 by Ivan Pepelnjak


Recently, on an IPSec-based customer network, NIL installed one of the brand new platforms introduced by Cisco Systems. The initial software release had memory leaks (no problem, we all know these things happen), so we upgraded the box to the latest software. It works perfectly ... until you reload it. ...

Free access to IIUC2 1.0 remote lab exercises

January 26th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


From today on, the free-of-charge remote lab exercises for Implementing Cisco IOS Unified Communications Part 2 (IIUC2) are available. Only the first five students, who will register with 9E8C6F as a promotion code, will get access to all 12 IIUC2 remote lab exercises. The exercises will be available until February 2nd. ...

The Power of NIL Monitor, Part 2

January 22nd, 2009 by Grega Modrijan


In my previous post I mentioned that the NIL Monitor gave me much-needed visibility into the source of a problem, which contributed to fast and efficient solutions, and finally to customer satisfaction. But can the NIL Monitor supersede expensive test and measurement equipment, whose price can go beyond tens or ...

Mystery or just another troubleshooting task suitable for helpdesk

January 13th, 2009 by Dragan Spasojevic


Not long ago, the technical department at NIL received a failure report indicating that a certain application required for uninterrupted functioning of an organization was not working. The client suspected a router failure. Our first guess was that the problem was most likely in the international communications lines between the ...

Free access to SNRS 3.0 remote lab exercises

January 8th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


Have you passed the CCNA Security exam and now you’re working toward the CCSP? Grab another opportunity to be one step closer! Securing Networks with Cisco Routers and Switches (SNRS) remote lab exercises - FREE OF CHARGE to the first five students who register with promotion code B6E332. The SNRS course is ...

Proactive monitoring

January 7th, 2009 by Andraz Piletic


In my previous posts I wrote about how monitoring your network can help you to detect anomalies such as infected PCs sending spam, or illegal peer-to-peer traffic in your network. These examples have two things in common. First, such behavior in your network is unwanted, and the task of every network ...

Flexible Extranet Implementation

January 5th, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Do you need to deploy an extranet? In a simple yet flexible enough way? Getting rid of limitations brought by fixed addressing? MPLS VPN implementation of an extranet brings the flexibility that will make even complex extranets deployment easier. In this IP Corner article, Ivan Pepelnjak, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ...