Earlier today I was needing to verify two pieces of configured equipment were using the correct 802.q trunks by using a packet capture. Continue reading “Mirroring 802.1q trunk interfaces while preserving the tags”
Mercurial for Tracking Cisco Configs
As I have been working with different routers I have squired a small repository of configuration files that I use for examples, backups, and ways of remembering the way the network was set up before a change. At the start I maintained each config as a separate file, usually containing the date (i.e. router1-071012.cfg). While that worked for a while it got cumbersome when I wanted to track more than one legacy version of a config file. Continue reading “Mercurial for Tracking Cisco Configs”