Wednesday, May 9, 2007

configure replace - Replacing Your Running-Config

I ran across post on CiscoBlog.com about the configure replace command. I had not ever seen this command before, but I could have used it quite a few times in the past. Essentially it will let you replace the running config with another config instead of the standard copy command which just merges the two configs.

Below is the link for more information on Cisco's website

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios124/124tcr/tcf_r/cf_02ht.htm#wp1031947

This command was first introduced in 12.3(7)T

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Useful Tools

For some reason I am feeling a bit too lazy to write up a useful post on commands tonight, so I thought I would throw out a list of some of the tools that I use for testing and troubleshooting. I would love to see a list of any of the tools that I am missing or if you think there is a better tool out there than what I use, let me know!

STG - Graphs SNMP Data
Wireshark - Used to be Ethereal, a great free sniffer
ipload - Traffic generation tool, great for testing QoS or through-put
Pumpkin - TFTP Server
Quick'n Easy FTP Server - Nice standalone FTP server, requires no installation
PuTTY - The best free SSH and telnet client out there

As you may have noticed, these are all Windows based tools. Although there are some great UNIX based tools, the laptop I use on a daily basis is Windows XP so these are the tools I use on it.