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The Coolest Cisco Links of All

Okay, here’s my thought. I’ve got some links that I have found very handy in the Cisco world over the years…links that I typically forget about, but then someone shows me the same link months later and I get all excited about them again. Rather than continuing the cycle, I was hoping to enlist your …

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Using a Cisco Router as a DNS Server

The folks over at NIL have put together an excellent article on using a Cisco router as a central DNS server for your organization. They also include a new feature called DNS Views – it allows you to configure your Cisco router for split-DNS: giving private addresses to servers accessible to internal users but public addresses to anyone else asking from the Internet. Nice!!! Click here for the full story.

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Think network architecture, not more bandwidth

At last week’s Interop shindig, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers’ annual walk-about keynote presentation focused on “Web 2.0 creep” and its impact on the network. According to Chambers, enterprises will adopt Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis and Web video and bring today’s networks to their knees in the process.  While I believe that the enterprise Web 2.0 trend is in its early genesis phase, I tend to agree with Mr. Chambers’ hypothesis. Enterprise networks have grown organically over the past 15 years–a switch here, more port capacity over there, add a wireless access point, etc. The design criteria were simple: extend the network and move packets as quickly as possible. Any problem along the way was easily solved by adding more bandwidth. This formula was effective in the old client/server days, but it doesn’t cut it anymore. Why? Applications are designed across multiple loosely coupled tiers and delivered over …

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Cisco and Microsoft Unveil Joint Architecture for NAC-NAP Interoperability

Security architecture to enable customers and partners to deploy interoperable Cisco Network Admission Control and Microsoft Network Access Protection. BOSTON — Sept. 6, 2006 — Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are delivering on their previously stated commitment to provide customers and partners with clear guidance on how Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft® Network Access Protection (NAP) will interoperate. The two companies are demonstrating the new interoperable architecture at The Security Standard conference (http://www.thesecuritystandard.net), which opened today in Boston. A technical white paper released today by the two companies describes how Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP interoperate for security policy enforcement and health assessment. The white paper describes the architecture and provides details on how to integrate the embedded security capabilities of Cisco’s network infrastructure with those of Microsoft Windows Vista™ and the future version of Windows Server®, code-named “Longhorn.” The white paper can be downloaded at http://www.cisco.com/go/nac …

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