Category Archive: Techtorials

TCL Scripts

For those that don’t know, TCL (pronounced Tickle) is a method of creating and running scripts on Cisco devices, mainly routers and switches. These can range to do anything from configuring device components to pinging remote addresses. To write a script you need to go into the TCL Shell on a device, accessed from Priv EXEC …

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Switch Password Reset

Router Password Reset

The Problem:   We’ve all been there – a ticket comes your way where someone asks you to change a config of a device router that no one has touched for ages. You ask around the NOC for the password and you’re met with a variety responses like: “Its not documented in the password sheet” …

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Router Menus

Recently I have been doing quite a bit of labbing and one thing I have noticed is that there always seems to be repeatable elements such as the IP addressing, interface assignments. or if doing a BGP lab then the IGP configuration. I find that doing this isn’t really adding any value to the lab …

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