http://www.brandontek.com Life is short. Play with Cisco. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:02:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/stacking-cisco-3750-switches/ http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/stacking-cisco-3750-switches/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:47:27 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=578 There are a lot of articles out there on the web for Cisco’s 3750 switches. However, there is no promise that those blogs will continue to stay up, so I’ve decided to create my own blog with my own experiences with Cisco’s 3750-E’s and 3750-X switches with many tips along the way! I decided to [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/stacking-cisco-3750-switches/feed/ 6 http://www.brandontek.com/labs/sonicwall-nsa-250m-beta/ http://www.brandontek.com/labs/sonicwall-nsa-250m-beta/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:44 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=630 I apologize for the poor image quality. My iPhone 3G is past its prime. It says, “NSA 250 M”. Last month I was asked by SonicWALL to beta test their soon to be released NSA 250M firewall. This model will be replacing the NSA 240. In my opinion, the NSA series provide an excellent line [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/labs/sonicwall-nsa-250m-beta/feed/ 0 http://www.brandontek.com/entertainment/transformers-great-american-tour/ http://www.brandontek.com/entertainment/transformers-great-american-tour/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:52:30 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=608 Transformers, now one can meets the eye! Ok so what a treat. My Friday, September 30th 2011 ended in a 90MPH drive, one hour away from my office to a client who badly needed a very old server that we just brought back to my office last week. It was a Friday, rush hour, traffic [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/entertainment/transformers-great-american-tour/feed/ 0 http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/top-ten-it-certs/ http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/top-ten-it-certs/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:56:47 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=604 According to TechRepublic.com, SonicWALL’s CSSA edges out Cisco’s CCNA coming in at 5 and 6 respectively. I covered the CSSA course earlier this year that you can read here: SonicWALL CSSA I’ve honestly felt the last couple of years, Cisco has branched out a bit too far, this allowed other competitors into the market. With [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/top-ten-it-certs/feed/ 1 http://www.brandontek.com/networking/sonicwall-on-a-stick/ http://www.brandontek.com/networking/sonicwall-on-a-stick/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:27:47 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=584 SonicWALL’s never tasted so good! I touched up on this subject in my last blog titled, “Solutions to your SonicPoint WLAN Woes!” What I want to do here is go over what is traditionally known as “Router-on-a-Stick” or “ROAS”. In this case, “SonicWALL-on-a-Stick” or “SOAS”. The concept behind “ROAS” is that instead of taking a [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/networking/sonicwall-on-a-stick/feed/ 9 http://www.brandontek.com/networking/solution-to-your-sonicpoint-wlan-woes/ http://www.brandontek.com/networking/solution-to-your-sonicpoint-wlan-woes/#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:18:35 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=556 I recently blogged an article on how to quickly and easily configure a SonicPoint with your SonicWALL firewall. If you haven’t read it, you can read it here before reading further. If you have read it, keep on reading! Below is an example of a typical but small deployment utilizing a SonicPoint for wireless access. [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/networking/solution-to-your-sonicpoint-wlan-woes/feed/ 57 http://www.brandontek.com/sonicwall/feeling-locked-out-reset-web-access-via-cli/ http://www.brandontek.com/sonicwall/feeling-locked-out-reset-web-access-via-cli/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:58:15 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=535 SonicWALL isn’t known for their CLI, and why would you really want to use it when you can easily administer the firewall from its web interface! Having access to the CLI can come in handy if you, for whatever reason, locked yourself out from web access. I will show you how you can reset/enable the [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/sonicwall/feeling-locked-out-reset-web-access-via-cli/feed/ 1 http://www.brandontek.com/networking/sonicpoint-how-to/ http://www.brandontek.com/networking/sonicpoint-how-to/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:12:49 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=507 SonicWALL comes with nifty little access points called Sonicpoint’s. They can either be plugged in directly to your SonicWALL TZ or NSA series firewalls. They are PoE capable which makes installation a breeze if plugging them into PoE(802.3af) capable switchports. If you do not have PoE switchports, you will need their power injector which I [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/networking/sonicpoint-how-to/feed/ 8 http://www.brandontek.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-cssa/ http://www.brandontek.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-cssa/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:11:48 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=486 Not much has been blogged about SonicwWALL’s CSSA(Certified Sonicwall Security Administrator) certification program, so I think I’ll take a stab at it! Last month my company was visited by Sonicwall to take a 2 day course on administering and securing Sonicwall firewalls. Believe it or not, there was no catch, other than having to wake [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/sonicwall/sonicwall-cssa/feed/ 10 http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/when-deny-any-doesnt-deny-all/ http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/when-deny-any-doesnt-deny-all/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:22:25 +0000 admin http://www.brandontek.com/?p=480 I recently came across this discussion and thought I’d shed some light. A user wants to deny all traffic outbound a specific interface. Let’s say it is ethernetO. The best way to test this is to create an ACL and apply it to your interface outbound, and ping out from an internal device. You won’t [...]]]> http://www.brandontek.com/cisco/when-deny-any-doesnt-deny-all/feed/ 9