Avaya’s System Platform

by Ron Staples February 1, 2011 Avaya Bytes

Many AVAYA products have already moved to the System Platform base (and the rest of them except CMS will move to SP by end of year). System Platform is a “virtual server” environment… there is one VERY CRITICAL “feature” that everyone

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EIGRP query messages, the good the bad the ugly.

by Ron Staples January 24, 2011 Cisco Bytes

If a network goes down, EIGRP will send out query messages to its neighbors to find an alternate route. EIGRP will do this for 180 seconds (three minutes) it will keep sending the query messages even if a path is reported within that time frame, the path will simply set in queue until all queries have been answered.

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A little virus farm thrives!

by Ron Staples December 7, 2010 Microsoft Bytes

It’s funny at what you find when Googling for help. I ran across this cartoon while searching for “Virtual Windows Machines Network”

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My preliminary Cisco router setup

by Ron Staples November 18, 2010 Cisco Bytes

As a potential engineer one of the many basic skills you’ll need to master in your career is setting up a newly purchased router. Surprisingly I know a lot of Engineers that have worked in NOC’s (Network Operations Centers) for years, troubleshooting all sorts Cisco devices and various issues and never really having to configure anything

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What I got from a typo with the Cisco show command.

by Ron Staples November 16, 2010 Cisco Bytes

At first I was like whoa… what did I do? After realizing what I did, I thought this is nice way to go over those long endless configs. I can see this being very useful on a conference bridge, “If you look at line blah bla you will notice that the blah blah is miss configured.”

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CVOICE 642-436 Completed!

by Ron Staples October 4, 2010 Featured

The router gave help with configuring my pots dial peers and using the debug commands. Lastly I want to mention GNS3, I used this to mimic a 3745 Cisco router which I installed Call manager Express on, and this allowed me to configure my softphone and register a Cisco 1740 and send calls back and forth.

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Custom Cisco menu configuration

by Ron Staples September 14, 2010 Cisco Bytes

A while ago I stumbled upon a great piece of code that could make your Cisco router a little less intimidating for your tier one tech support staff. The tier one team is useless the first ones that the customer engages when calling in a trouble.

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