Archive for January, 2008

Configuration leak found

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

A few months ago a third party installed a server in our network. Because we, the IT departement, was not actively involved in this I decided to screen the systems myself. Afterall our department had full responsibility for these systems, even though we did not know anything about them.

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Unexpected behaviour Cisco 2950 switch while adding VLAN

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Yesterday I noticed something strange when configuring a 2950 switch.
I had to create a new VLAN, so I went in to configuration mode and added a new vlan (interface) by entering “interface vlan 234″  and did a “no shutdown”  on the interface. When I had done this I immediatly lost connection to the switch.
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