I upgraded my Internet connection from ADSL 2+ to FTTC a while ago. I’m with Eclipse as an ISP, but it’s basically the same product as BT Infinity, right down to the Openreach-branded modem, (a Huawei Echolife HG612 to be exact). With this modem, you need to use a router or some software that can [...]
Following on from my previous post regarding using SNMP to initiate TFTP backups, it’s also possible to use SNMP to remotely upgrade IOS on a Cisco device. I’ll reuse and extend the setup and configuration from the previous article so apply that first. The IOS device then needs the following additions: router(config)#snmp-server view myview ciscoFlashOps [...]
I recently discovered you can use SNMP to trigger a Cisco device to write its configuration to a remote TFTP server. Apparently this feature has existed in Cisco devices in one form or another for over a decade, but somehow I’d missed it completely. This seems a far better alternative to getting in a muddle [...]
