CCIE Quest

In a previous tutorial, i had shown ASA emulation in Ubuntu 9.10 (Linux) . Good news is you no longer need to compile and patch Qemu (its already done for you). You just need to build initrd and linux kernel from ASA binary, set path to them in GNS3 preferences and you are all set. If you are installing in Ubuntu, follow the previous tutorial (just skip the compilation and patching section).

If you are installing GNS3 in any of Windows flavour e.g Windows XP , Windows Vista or Windows 7 , its (more…)

If you have gone through all previous parts of this tutorial, you have  learned to configure CUCME for SIP trunk support to a VOIP SIP Internet Service Provider (ITSP) ,configuring  Inbound and outbound dial peers for call routing as well as configuring and supporting IP phones(e.g.CIPC).This is the last part of tutorial in which you will configure a SIP endpoint for same purpose.I will use (more…)

This tutorial will be focused on configuring Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) VPN access using AnyConnect SSL VPN Client Software.The Cisco AnyConnect client is an SSL−based VPN client .

Cisco AnyConnect Client can be installed on a variety of operating systems, such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Linux (Multiple Distros) and MAC OS X.It can be installed manually on the remote PC by the system administrator.It can also be loaded onto t (more…)

In one of my previous tutorials, i had used Putty Connection Manager for Console Access which helps centralizing all your consoles into a single window with easy tabbing in between different router consoles. This tutorial shows yet another way of achieving same functionality.This time, i  will setup an Access Server/Console Server/Terminal Server, whatever you name it in order to access all lab devices from a single console.

Normally, people practicing for CCIE lab (more…)

This tutorial will help those who are having problems with insufficient flash disk capacity in Cisco Call Manager Express (CUCME) configurations. In order to copy files e.g Music-on-hold files, GUI  files, Basic-ACD scripts and prompts to your flash, you need to have considerable amount of disk space to house all stuff there.

Fortunately, you can increase PMCIA (more…)

This tutorial will cover PIX firewall in greater detail. I will demonstrate both CLI and GUI access to PIX firewall. We will first setup PIX firewall in GNS3 and then install and enable ASDM on top of it.

Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) is the successor to PIX Device Manager (PDM) which allows easy GUI access to device for (more…)