Some of you may remember portsdb.org which was a valuable tool when searching for port information, but unfortunately this website has been gone and thought to be lost for over 2 years. Cisconews is proud to announce its impending resurrection!!! Read the rest of this entry »

The Cisco 2800 series is a very popular router right now, covering everything from VPN to Voice it really is the all-in-one solution for the SMB.

Check it out at http://cisconews.co.uk/gallery/

This page is dedicated to the VPN errors that may be seen on a Cisco router running IOS.
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As part of our ongoing effort to provide Cisco related news we have decided to dedicate some time and space to error messages.

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Cisco ASA 5505 Review

Most people these days are happy to have a Linksys, Netgear or D-Link router attached to their broadband connections. The basic functionality and throughput that they provide are ample for the casual user.

But when you need more out of a device, and are willing to spend the money to achieve this, the market can become a bit of a mine field. At the time of writing, the 5505 is available for around £350 retail. Those of you who work in the Cisco arena may be able to get them for less.

Personally, I have used a Cisco 831, 1721 and more recently a Cisco ASA 5505 Security Appliance for terminating my cable connection. It is the latter that we will be taking a look at today!

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A few days ago we posted about building a CCIE lab at home using Emulation. If you were interested in that, but want something a little more user friendly, then read on.

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This one could be useful for anybody looking to upgrade to a newer IOS or feature set.

Crucial, one of the worlds biggest Memory manufacturers now sell Cisco Compatible Memory. Simple go to www.crucial.com select Cisco as the manufacturer and then pick your device type. It will tell you which memory you need and how many free slots you will have.  Best of all, it will be far cheaper than buying from Cisco.

This guide will take you through the steps required to upgrade the compact flash in a Cisco ASA 5505. This can be useful in a couple of scenarios. Firstly, you may like to take advantage of “bufferwrap” and store months of ASA logs in flash. Alternatively, you may be replacing damaged flash memory in the device.

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Hi All,
We have added the Cisco 1721 to the Gallery. Even though this device is no longer available, there are still lots of them in the wild!

The gallery can be accessed by hitting the button in the bar above

Merry Christmas all!

This one came as quite a suprise to me. There is no Cisco IPSEC based VPN client available for Vista 64. Not only that, but it does not look like there will be one any time soon. They are trying to nudge people in the direction of the AnyConnect client which uses TLS for security! Unfortunately, this cannot be used with the PIX series of hardware appliances.

As soon as we get more information on this front it will be posted here.