Cisco released several field notices today regarding manufacturing defects which reduce the reliability of certain Compact Flash and ATA Flash disks.The flash disks, manufactured between May 2005 and October 2006, may fail, preventing systems that rely on IOS images stored on them from rebooting.
A ROMMON upgrade resolves the issue in lower-end routers. For affected […]

Categories: Networking

Note: Now that Google is hosting email domains for free, it has become an interesting alternative for both new and old domains. As always, I’ve changed the names to protect those affected.
Transitioning a domain to Google can be an arduous task. Once you have set up the domain with Google and added all […]

Categories: System Administration

In response to Advisory 13/2006 posted by the Hardened-PHP Project, Cisco released a notification that several products were affected by the HTML encoder vulnerability. Affected products include:

Network Analysis Modules (NAM) for Cisco 6500 switch, Cisco 7600 router and Branch Routers
CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine Express (WLSX)
Cisco Unified […]

Categories: Security Updates

XHTML Character Entity Reference
Digital Media Minute’s Jim Rutherford has developed an invaluable reference in his XHTML Character Entity Reference. With this reference in hand, I can finally ditch all my little notes about copyrights, trademarks, and cedillas. Here’s an explanation of how the page works in Jim’s own words.
Each entity is contained within […]

Categories: Software

Deciding whether to use RADIUS or TACACS+ for AAA functionality on a Cisco-based network seems straight-forward. After all, if the network uses Cisco, shouldn’t the AAA server? The answer isn’t quite so clear.
Commonalities
Both RADIUS and TACACS+ are client/server AAA protocols. The server resides on a remote system and answers queries from clients […]

Categories: Networking