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GNS3 and Ubunutu VM for TACACS+

I was just testing around and finding a simple way to have a look at TACACS+ without getting a friend to obtain Cisco ACS for me. I have an Ubunutu VM that I was testing on so I thought I'd find a TACACS+ package or somewhat, many are available but I found one which is based off the original cisco TACACS+ code (doesn't provide LDAP integration but they have examples how to 'almost' fully integrate it haha)...   So this is more or less a quick post so I can look back when I need to revi

BSpendlove

BSpendlove

A guide to a Cisco R&S lab: Equipment

I've always wanted to do a post but felt like this is more appropriate for a blog post instead of on the networking forum. I've had a few people ask me on instagram + other social sites about building a lab and decided to create this so I can point them to it. Let us begin!     So, you're studying for a Cisco exam or want to get some 'real' hands on experience with Cisco equipment because either:   1) People are telling you real hardware experience is better than emulati

BSpendlove

BSpendlove

CDP Basics - Cisco Discovery Protocol

CDP - Cisco discovery protocol...   A protocol that runs on Layer 2 which means it doesn't give a damn which layer 3 protocol is running on the interface! The basic concept from our point of view with CDP is that it can obtain information related to device name, interface, management IP and more!   A tiny bit of theory that isn't really required for the CCNP level is what CDP runs on. Medias must support Subnetwork access protocol (SNAP). Essentially this is a frame format which

BSpendlove

BSpendlove

On the complaint of "incremental CPU improvements"

A common complaint I see about Intel is because they didn't have much in the way of competition from AMD for several years, they were content with releasing each new generation of processors with only "incremental" performance updates. Incremental being about 10%-15%. I wondered if in the past, we were enjoying a period of great performance improvements and so I went to looking around for benchmarks of processors from around the mid 2000s to late 2000s/early 2010s.   I found out that b

Mira Yurizaki

Mira Yurizaki

Back to school budget gaming PCs

While you might have thought that I abandoned this place, I haven't, it's just that the part prices are getting higher and higher on a pretty much weekly basis, and some components, such as GPUs and RAM, are shooting up in price due to limited stock and overall shortage   But no worries, I can still make pretty good budget builds for light to moderate gaming.   I'm going to do a little twist, I'm going to give nicknames to builds, not just "Budget build" or "Content creation

Djole123

Djole123

Benchmarking Prodecures

I haven't done anything that would require benchmarking in ages. Last change made to my old log file was 2014 after I changed some case fans and wanted to check if they did something to temps. This July I changed graphics card which is something I would say anyone should run their own sequence after. So after any bigger change (CPU/GPU mainly) anyone should run same benchmarks they have run before change. I will come back to this in a moment. In my situation need was really big. I went from 2011

LogicalDrm

LogicalDrm

LTT/Forum App

These questions seem to be more common now than ever. This is list of link to all of those threads. Or as many as I can find. Under each link is quotes from my reply and any official/semi-official if given. Note that this list doesn't cover times this has been asked in old Features and Suggestions thread in its many iterations.   Btw. If you know thread which isn't listed, tag me (for new ones) or PM (for old ones, >1 months).   *UPDATE* July 8th: Moved 2016 and 201

LogicalDrm

LogicalDrm

Topics created in 2017

(Almost) ALL Topics talking about having LTT/Forums app in 2017   Main post with all statistics: 2017 Stats (so far)   Total topics created: 14 Most in month: 4 (January) Average in month: 2.4   Aug 2nd   July 19th   May 13th   May 8th   Apr 27th   Apr 12th   Apr 2nd   Mar 31st   Mar 5th   Feb 15th   Jan 23rd   Jan 21st

LogicalDrm

LogicalDrm

Topics created in 2016

(Almost) ALL Topics talking about having LTT/Forums app in 2016   Main post with all statistics: 2016 Stats   Total topics created: 27 Most in month: 4 (April) Average in month: 2.25   Dec 31st Dec 18th Dec 12th Nov 14th Nov 12th Nov 9th Oct 26th Oct 16th Sep 21st Sep 11th Sep 2nd Aug 20th July 29

LogicalDrm

LogicalDrm

R9 Fury X upgrade

I recently purchased an R9 Fury X off of eBay for a couple reasons, the first being for the giant performance increase from my 380X, and the second being that I can mine with my 380X.   Picture of FrostByte:   Picture of my WIP ethereum mining rig/NAS:   And if any of you are interested on how the new card performs, I made a video on the topic:  

MoonlightSylv

MoonlightSylv

Are split browsers productive?

Answer: no  reasoning: the App Store has about 6 or 8 split window browsing apps. One of the most popular is Split by Savy soda. The issue is that you have to go back and forth typing new searches. Ideally the app would mirror the first search to get both windows to the first google page, then un-mirror allowing the user to tap through multiple links without pressing the back button which wastes loading time. Then re-mirror and un-mirror. Maybe with some ai or something. A solution to the "

Neotwoson

Neotwoson

June Build

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($195.69 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($65.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($99.99 @ Newegg) Storage: PNY - CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($52.99 @ Best Buy) Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.44 @ OutletPC) Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Dual Series Vide

RadiatingLight

RadiatingLight

We should really stop chastising people who think PC building is "too hard"

The other day I found a Gamer's Nexus video in my subscription feed. It was Steve Burke criticizing a magazine's article on how PC building is "hard" and to prove it wasn't, would do a speed build.   Admittedly I didn't watch the whole video, nor did I read the article in question. But my overall takeaway is this: to all you people who build or built their machines, stop saying it's easy as if building a PC is like operating an elevator or using a phone.   Now ignoring the ot

Mira Yurizaki

Mira Yurizaki

Web app development is actually a good way to learn multi-threading concepts

As a way to expand my skill set and give me something to do in my spare time on programming, I've taken up learning what is called full stack web development. In it's most high level description, that means dabbling in both the front-end (client app, web page, etc.) and back-end (server, database, etc.) of the development process. To ease going into this, because I didn't want to learn almost a half-dozen languages, I've stuck with Node.js and MongoDB, as both use ECMAscript. Essentially all tha

Mira Yurizaki

Mira Yurizaki

Commentary on the Legality of Microsoft's Data-Harvesting in Windows 10

This is a perhaps a more eloquent and elaborated presentation of what I was wanting to speak in the thread 7-times Microsoft MVP finds Windows 10 Enterprise collects too much data at minimum, calls for legal action.   The relevant links from that thread are these:   Windows, Spying, and a Twitter Rant Screenshots showing high levels of contact with Microsoft servers after employing all efforts to stop data-transmission Additional screenshots of further Microsoft ser

Delicieuxz

Delicieuxz

My Setup

Is this rig good for gaming at 1080p@60+fps highest preset? https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mohammed15/saved/

Ma name jeff

Ma name jeff

Simulated Processor - Creating an instruction Set

Hello,   So the other day, I was bored and thought, "You know what, I want to learn how to design a working instruction set," and thus I have been working out the details for a simulated processor using my own custom instruction set rather than getting some homework done that I really should be doing.   Here is what I currently have worked out: Croltex SM8 (simulated processor) specs ------------------------------------ L1 Cache - 64 bytes L2 Cache - 128 bytes L3 Cache -

SilicateWielder

SilicateWielder

Topics created in 2015

(Almost) ALL Topics talking about having LTT/Forums app in 2014   Main post with all statistics: 2015 Stats   Total topics created: 13 Most in month: 3 (August) Average in month: 1.1   Nov 7th Sep 10th Aug 21st Aug 10th Aug 6th Jul 11th Jul 1st Jun 21st Apr 7th Mar 24th Feb 26th Feb 24th Jan 16

LogicalDrm

LogicalDrm

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