I have seen a few posts out there about this as well as links to sites that will decrypt a Cisco type 7 password.  Since I am trying to share what I know I figured I might as well throw my hat into the ring and include this information here. If you have a type…

A few years ago I had a TAC case open with Cisco.  The case was centered around an unusually high CPU condition on a Cisco 3800ISR series router.  This router was only routing traffic between the Ethernet interfaces, doing some SNAT (stateful NAT), and basic BGP routing – so the CPU should not have been…

Configuring DHCP on routers is not something that is normally done in a production network.  Typically in a production network DHCP servers are either Windows, Linux, or some other vendors implementation.  Occasionally you will need to configure a Cisco device to provided DHCP for initial purposes – say a new location build-out, a lab network,…