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Over the years, I have come across numerous challenging technical situations that have surprisingly very little information after Google searching and scouring IT discussion forums. TEKinaka.com has articles that have been pieced together by my experiences and are in no way designed to be a “fix all” for every problem you might be faced with. However, after hours of banging my head on the wall, it’s worth having something documented here that I can refer back to down the road. If it helps another person in the process, then its even more worthwhile. I hope you find these entries useful, informative, or at least thought provoking enough to kick start a troubleshooting process that gets you to a solution.
Cisco AnyConnect Reconnects Immediately After Login
Something strange would happen when I connected to a Firepower 2130 running Firepower Threat Defense with Cisco AnyConnect. Basically, the AnyConnect client would contact the VPN gateway just fine, prompt for user credentials, authenticate and connect but then literally after about 3 seconds of being connected it would immediately drop and [...]
Upgrade Firmware on Cisco SG350 / SG550X Switches
While we are sad to see some of the Cisco Small Business 300 series switches go End-of-Sale, we welcome the 350/550X series with open arms. Cisco has expanded their offering of Small Business Switches to the SG350 or SG550X models. Strangely, some 300 series models have been given end-of-sale [...]
APC Metered Rack PDU Password Recovery
Perhaps you picked up an APC Metered Rack PDU used, and want to use the built-in management features but can't because you're locked out. This often happens not only with the sale of used equipment, but also when there isn't good documentation, or a company acquires a competitor and [...]
Meraki MR Access Point Link Aggregation (LAG) Configuration
It would have been so awesome to rip out all our switching infrastructure and put in hardware that supports Multigagbit and UPOE. Sadly, management didn't want the network infrastructure projects to wipe out the entire IT budget. Good news, there is a simple way to take advantage of "more than [...]
Upgrade Firmware / Bootloader on Cisco SG300 / SG500 Switches
Cisco continues to put out new SG switch firmware which adds some nice features and more stability to the product line. Several companies I have worked in the small / medium business sector are turning to these switches for their inexpensive port density and management options in an access layer switch. [...]
Password Recovery Procedure for Cisco SG500 / SG300 Switches
Cisco documentation is out there for this, but searching for it generally only comes back with forum questions and responses. Here's the consolidated information on how to easily break into a Cisco Small Business switch that has a console port. Generally this is limited to the SG300 and SG500 series [...]
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