For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...

Network security relies heavily on passwords. Cisco routers use passwords to ensure that only "trusted" users can perform certain services. In this Daily Drill Down, Todd Lammle takes you on a journey ...

During an important WAN class project, I ended up with a passworded router. I started to perform password recovery by booting into ROMMON. I typed the following commands:<BR><BR>confreg 0x2142 ...

I need to find the pin configuration for a DB9 Female to RJ45 adapter. I want to make an adapter to connect to the console port on a Cisco 1700 series router so I do not have to use a rollover ...