In PuTTY, right-click on the mouse is configured to automatically pastes the contents from the clip-board. While this is a great convenience, it is equally dangerous when you are logged onto live production systems. Have you pasted “reboot” and pressed enter without realizing what you’ve done??
Category: Networking
FileZilla FTP Client configuration through BlueCoat proxy
If you are attached to a corporate or an enterprise network and connect to internet from behind a BlueCoat proxy which proxies FTP connections then FileZilla FTP client needs needs to be configured accordingly to get it work properly. There is an FTP proxy configuration and a Generic Proxy configuration that can be set in FileZilla client.
Import WyseTerm Host List from one user to another in Windows
Back from the holidays only to find my Windows Profile gone missing at work. One of the annoying things was to add all my remote hosts back onto WyseTerm. While the bad news is that there is no single file (which one would expect) that maintains this list, the good news comes in the form of Windows Registry. Yes, the WyseTerm host information is stored in Windows Registry and can be exported from the registry on to a new profile or other users profile.
The WyseTerm Host information, also known as the Common Address Book can be exported from the Windows Registry and then imported onto the new users profile as follows:
Default Link/Port costs for Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
With Spanning Tree Protocol, messages from a connected device always takes the least cost path to the Root Bridge. The least cost path also called as Link Cost or Port cost is the lowest cost path of the one or more paths available from the device to the root bridge. Each link type has its own default costs which is used by the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) to calculate the least cost path.
SolarWind Advanced Subnet Caculator for Classless subnet & CIDR calculation
Advanced Subnet Calculator from SolarWind is a simple but powerful easy to use Subnet Calculator for Windows.
Advanced Subnet Calculator can perform
whois lookups for hostnames and Domain Names
IPWhois Lookup for the provided IP Address
Classful Subnet Calculator
Claseless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) Calculator
Address Generator for a given IP Address and Subnet Mask
RANCID – Network Device Config Differ,Config Change alert,backup
RANCID is Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ. AS its name implies, RANCID monitors network device configuration, including software and hardware and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes. RANCID is simple and is easy to use.
The same very functionality of RANCID can be used as a backup system for Network device config backup system or even a config change alert system as it can email changes from previous saved configurations. All this RANCID does by logging on to a network device using Telnet or SSH and runs various show commands to grab config changes (hardware & Software), send alert emails of any changes, format the info and commit to the CVS system.
Packet Trap – Free Network Diagnostic suite & Monitoring tool
Packet Trap pt360 Tool suite is a Windows based free Network Diagnostic tools suite and a Network Monitoring tool. Packet Trap has a nice Dashboard with drag and drop dashboard components.
At the first look, Packet Trap is very impressive, simple, easy to use, easy to understand, simple and easy navigation and menu options. All the diagnostic tools are graphic and provides a great advantage as a one stop shop for most of the Network troubleshooting. What is even more impressive is that the monitoring system being integrated into a Network Diagnostic suite which allows an admin to monitor and troubleshoot all from one place and they all can export the results in nice HTML format.