Entries for January, 2010

Cisco goes to space

Cisco Systems wants to put a router on every communications satellite.
The networking giant has already sent the first one into space.
The company announced that the router has successfully completed initial in-orbit tests, after being launched Nov. 23 aboard the Intelsat 14 communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles above the Earth.
The move is one small [...]

How to use archive command to save configuration

In a large/critical network, it is fundamental backup the Cisco configuration for two reasons:

Rollback configuration
Restore configuration in case of a broken router

There are two ways to backup: manually (using write command each time that you would save running configuration) or automatically (using software like Ciscoworks, HP OpenView, … ).
In this tutorial, I would explain a different [...]

Multiple Cisco WebEx WRF Player Vulnerabilities

The The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has published one important vulnerability advisory:  Multiple Cisco WebEx WRF Player Vulnerabilities.
Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco WebEx Recording Format (WRF) Player. In some cases, exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system of a targeted [...]