Tag Archives: cisco

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Posted on December 5, 2012 by Chris

Springfield House, Laurelhill Business Park, Stirling, FK7 9JQ Tel No: 01786 406448 Hi I’m Chris the owner of ComTech.  I am just a regular guy who loves fixing (and sometimes breaking!!) computers for a living.  I have a passion for Linux and … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 1, 2012 by Chris

Springfield House, Laurelhill Business Park, Stirling, FK7 9JQ Tel No: 01786 406448 I fully believe in continuous training and as such have embarked on studying to the highest level possible.  I am qualified in Cisco, Windows and Linux and these certifications are outlined below. … Continue reading →

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Configuring vlans on a Cisco switch

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Chris

Today I will show you how to configure vlans on a Cisco switch.  For this tutorial you will need to establish either a console , telnet or ssh session to your switch and use the following commands. Configuring a new … Continue reading →

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How to configure a Cisco switch with an ip address

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Chris

Today I will continue the Cisco theme and show you how to configure a Cisco switch with an ip address.  For this tutorial you will have to connect to the switch using a console session. Lets start. Comtech1#configure terminal Comtech1(config)#interface … Continue reading →

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How to configure basic passwords and a hostname on a Cisco switch

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Chris

Today I will show you how to configure basic passwords and a hostname on a Cisco switch.  For this tutorial you are going to have to open up a console session to your switch. First we need to set an … Continue reading →

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How to establish a Cisco console session on LInux

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Chris

Today we are going to use Linux to establish a console session with a Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch.  I will be using Linux Mint 10 but the procedure is exactly the same on all the other major distributions. First we … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged cisco, console, dmesg, linux, putty | 3 Comments

How to configure sub-interfaces on a Cisco router

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Chris

Today we are going to configure sub-interfaces on a Cisco router. We will configure the Fast Ethernet port 0/0 on a 1841 router to have two sub interfaces for vlans 1 and 2. Hostname(config)#interface fastethernet 0/0 Hostname(config-if)#no ip address Hostname(config-if)#exit … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged cisco, encapsulation, hostname, router, sub interfaces, vlan | 3 Comments