Archive for the ‘In general’ Category

Use Your Routers as Traffic Generators

July 7th, 2010 by Andraz Piletic


While I was testing some new Remote Labs for a renewed CCNP curriculum (for a TSHOOT course, to be precise), I came across a very interesting but undocumented command that turns a router into a traffic generator. Even though this command was introduced awhile ago, in IOS version 11.2, please ...

Improve Your Presentations with Presenter View

June 28th, 2010 by Andraz Piletic


Whether you are delivering a pitch to potential customers or upper management, or you find yourself in front of a dozen students while lecturing in a Cisco course, there is a good chance that you’re using PowerPoint slides for your presentation. While your audience can normally observe the slide show ...

Remote Labs Appliance

November 12th, 2009 by Milan Jelicic


Setting up access to remote environments from a web browser can be difficult, unless you're a sysadmin or you deal with this kind of problem in your everyday job. The process requires tweaking Windows registry settings to reenable the Telnet protocol handler that was disabled in Internet Explorer 7 or ...

Data center: Hype, or a big story?

September 1st, 2009 by Klemen Stular


In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The next day, He created the data center. Or at least it sounded that way, when somebody from my team who had already made up his mind stepped into my office and wanted me to buy his arguments. Then you ...

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 5

July 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


How does it work in practice? I would say that for the people who understand what was happening up until this point, the operation of this blended environment will not be a problem. Normal user can end up being confused and frustrated, though.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 4

June 24th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


How do I now use the virtual applications? Simple :). I just go to the Start menu of Windows 7 and there's a subsection where the Virtual XP entry is. That subsection now has all the applications, that I have installed in Virtual XP, presented as published “virtual application”.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 3

June 16th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


First you need to start the Virtual XP, just like you would any old virtual PC.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 2

May 28th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


After the business apps such as Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes were up and running, I got to the part that I knew from the start would be tricky: the Cisco VPN client.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 1

May 20th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


I was a bit adventurous the other day. After a successful initial testing of the Windows 7 Release Candidate on a home PC, I decided that I would like to see how it would function in a business environment. After getting a blessing from the IT department and backing up all ...

Start on Time

April 22nd, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


For perhaps the hundredth time, I logged in on time (even ahead of time, to check whether my IT infrastructure worked) to an online webinar, virtual classroom, Internet audiocast – no matter how you name it – generally, to some Internet-based synchronous event. I should have been synchronized with the ...