Cisco. Zero issue.

Cheers, comrades !!

This is the zero edition of amateur and professional Cisco speakers!





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For a long time I wondered why there were no blogs on the subject of Cisco equipment and computer networks in general. What is the network in the modern world is clear to all of us. What is Cisco in the world of computer networks is also clear to most. In this blog, we will talk about both the basic mechanisms for configuring and operating Cisco equipment, and new technologies that Cisco is going to bring to our lives.

For whom

For non_Cisco_admines

It often happens that small and medium-sized companies use Cisco equipment. Moreover, most likely such a piece of iron can perform an not obvious, but important role. For example, it can be a router or modem for accessing the Internet, to a partner’s network, or to communicate with a regional office of a company. Perhaps (and this happens most often), the iron cat has been installed for a long time and is unknown by whom. How it is set up - especially nobody knows. And so, it turns out that the admin of the company with fear waits for the day when this router still fails and will have to somehow find out the fault, re-configure the router and debug the network. For a person who has not previously worked with Cisco equipment, this can be a difficult problem. This is due to the fact that the command line interface (CLI) of the operating system for Cisco (IOS) hardware does not look like the command line of either Linux or Windows. But in order to perform simple configuration of Cisco equipment you do not need to have a lot of knowledge. Most of this knowledge and key concepts can be found here.

For Cisco_profi

Colleagues, I think we will have something to talk about here. There is a lot of news in the world of Cisco networks, so there will be topics for conversation.

In addition, each of us can help with practical advice for a beginner. We all started with something, and each one of us helped.

Also, each tsiskovoda there are many interesting and useful stories about solving some unusual problems.

What will be here

Let's start with the materiel. The first topics will be about how to perform basic configuration of routers and switches, if you have never had to work with them.

We continue by talking about higher matters, namely, routing (OSPF, EIGRP, RIP), as well as virtual VLANs. Also, do not forget about access control lists and access to the Internet via NAT.

Well, of course, we will discuss news in the Cisco world, proposed solutions and technologies, invitations to open conferences and all that concerns the life of us, tsiskovod!



Here we go!!



upd. The first article will be released tomorrow. You can suggest topics for the following articles in the comments. If I consider that they will be useful for beginners, then these articles will soon be published.