Routing on windows PC

     Wow, just wow. I just found out that Windows PCs don't have ip routing enabled by default. This came as a question to me by one of my acquaintances who's trying to install a Sun Web Proxy Server on top of his windows PC. 

Robin Padilla vs. Richard Gomez (a classic one)

 Hey folks! I saw this clip offa facebook. This clip is pretty interesting. I dunno when this happened, but this is a conflict or a fight between the Philippines' two of the most famous screen idols ever to grace Philippine showbusiness. The "Bad boy of Philippine movies", Mr. Robin Padilla vs. The "Adonis of Philippine movies", Mr. Richard Gomez.

Hilarious! Walang bawi si goma! Ahahaha.
Of course, showbusiness is a world of intrigues, but later on, we should all reconciliate with each other. Matatanda na tayo eh. We already know what's wrong and what's right.

Goma's campaign ad in his last senatorial bid.

Due to political reasons, I shall not be posting the actual video. But click on the link to view it anyways

Goma para sa senado campaign ad

Etymology of the word "HipHop"

I've always wondered about the etymology of some words.

Read:Etymology is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time.

And one word that popped in my mind is the word "Hiphop". I'm not so much of a hiphop fan, especially here in the Philippines, wherein Hiphop culture is not as big as Rock Culture. But in the western part of the globe, hiphop culture is as dominant as rock. The culture is so popular that some movies, TV series are themed after it.

What really is the origin or the etymology of the term HipHop? Lets find out!

Jologs-inator

Err, I recently stumbled upon a site that translates your plaintext, human langauge into Jologs language. I've never really used the jologs, or the text language, which is annoyingly very widely used here in the Philippines as it really irritates me. I always wonder how people I text put so much effort in keying in text entries like "Hi pFouH, MuZta, nA pFouH???" and the likes.

Simplify network design

Hi guys! It's me once again! I noticed that during these past few days, I notice that I'm gettin more and more active on this blog, as I share some tech/networking related tools/features that would most likely help many of our cisco/network guys out there.

Going back to my usual stuff, I found out this link.

Ciscoweb tools: Designer

It's a pretty neat tool, which I guess has been available for quite sometime, which helps us in planning and choosing the right equipment, design and the deployment for our equipment.

It asks us, for example, the number of users, how many branch offices(if applicable), if there will be remote users, what kind of connectivity do we plan to use, e.g. Private Leased WAN or the internet, the security you'll use, the technology we are going to use e.g. VoIP, storage, proprietary applications, etc... all that stuff. And you can choose to answer the questions in the form of a simple, radio button type of interview.

I usually design for medium sized to enterprise networks, having those in mind, I came up with this.

Click on the image above to see the picture clearly.

Pretty neat eh? Try this one out, and see different results for different network scenarios and needs. Enjoy!

New tambayan

Hey guys, I've a new tambayan. I really get useful information and stuff here, and by far, I think they present the most practical way to configure your network(not only cisco) devices. Configuration, FAQs, topics, discussions, all can be found here in one place. I hope you enjoy and make this your tambayan as much as I did.

DSLreports.com

DSL reports.com - Cisco FAQ, Configuration and discussion

While I was researching thru the internet about QoS, I came across a pretty neat blog, which has Cisco/Networking as topics on it. One of the best topics there as I scanned through the blog is the Cisco IOS Hidden tools. I hope this one's informative for you.

Cisco IOS hidden tools

Hello there,

Just a quick overview over a couple of cisco hidden command useful in certain circumstances

1. ttcp

ttcp is only available on routers/layer 3 switches

For those familiar with iperf, ttcp is a kinda”ish” iperf

Start ttcp on one router in point 2 point scenario and ttcp on the other endpoint. One router will be in receiving mode, while the other will be in sending mode… running the command is quite straight forward, thus I will not demonstrate it here.

2. test crash

Ok this used to be hidden, but isn’t in newer IOS version. Test crash allows to simulate a crash.. so you came to the office one morning and found your switch dead… not log, not knowing what happened. test crash can help you dig into the problem by simulating the crash

3. test transmit

This is a very cool feature. You can simulate traffic to interfaces, using specific encapsulations and protocols…

4. ip route profile and show ip route profile

Used in conjonction, this “debug” command enables you to see route fluctuation.

5. csim start “number”

This emulates a voice call to the specified number… practical for VoIP testing environment.

6. show controller switch

Need to get a quick overview on your switch traffic stats. Suspect a congestion network? show controller switch will give you the quick heads up on where you stand

7. debug ip osfp monitor

This command enables you to monitor the OSPF SPF process

8. ip-con 2 con

Available on cisco 7500… it enables you to enter the VIP console to execute VIP commands on VIP boards

9. ip osfp interface retry

Back to OSPF (the coolest routing protocol), by default OSPF pools retry on the interface 10 times… having too much fluctuation of states on the interface of your router? increase the pooling period.

10. show region

Displays how the memory is partitioned on the device

Taken from: Alouche.net