Tool - hping

Wanna test your TCP/IP packet monkey skills? Well then you may like hping.
hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The interface is inspired to the ping unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send [...]

Daily Trivia - 11/28

The Catalyst 4500 Sup 6-E will forward up to how many packets per second (pps) when installed in a 4507R-E Chassis?

A)  105 Million
B)  205 Million
C)  48 Million
D)  210 Million
E)  250 Million 
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Cisco Encryption Sales Tool Quick Reference Guide

Ok so today I was asked by my customer where in the world he could ship a new ASA to. He has offices all over and he needs/wants to put an ASA in those offices which are scattered all over planet Earth. There is a very nice concise location available on CCO which will list [...]

Daily Trivia - 11/27

True or False, in the 7200 Series router the midplane contains a time division multiplexing (TDM) switch with two dedicated connections to each chassis slot which supports interconnections between port adapters that have TDM interfaces.
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EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Receive-Only Gigabit Interface Converter . The last day to order the affected product(s) is May 9, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin.   [...]

EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Unified IP Interactive Voice Response (IP IVR) 4.5. The last day to order the affected product(s) is May 12, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the [...]

IntelliShield Cyber Risk Report Highlight: Weak Government Random Number Standard

Earlier this year, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a revised version of Special Publication 800-90, a document that specifies four methods for generating random numbers using Deterministic Random Bit Generators (DRBGs). One of the DRBGs, an elliptic curve method known as Dual_EC_DRBG, is facing scrutiny over the mathematical constants that [...]

EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Unified CallManager 4.0. The last day to order the affected product is May 15, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as listed in Table 1 in the EoL announcement. For more details, refer [...]

EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Unified CallManager Version 4.2. The last day to order the affected product is May 15, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as listed in Table 1 in the EoL announcement. 
For more details, [...]

EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Bandwidth Quality Manager 3.1 and 3.2. The last day to order the affected product(s) is January 30, 2008. Customers with  active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance  Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. 
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EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco 12000 Series 1-Port OC-192c/STM-64c DPT IR Line Card Dual-Card Set. The last day to order the affected product is September 27, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as listed in Table 1 [...]

EoL/EoS Announcement

Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Selected Components of Cisco IP Solution Center Layer 2 VPN Management Release ISC 4.1/4.2. The last day to order the affected product is February 15, 2008. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as [...]