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Free Month 1

1) Schedule commands with the Cisco IOS
- Have you ever wanted to schedule a command to run on a regular basis on a router? Now you can without requiring extra software.

2) Overwrite running config rather than merge
- The "copy startup-config running-config" only merges configs, it does not replace the running-config. Now you can replace a router's running-config without reloading a router.

3) Archive running-config
- Multiple copies of a router's config can be stored on a router giving the ability to roll back to previous configurations.

4) Send a message to vty lines
- This useful command allows you to send messages to other people connected to the same router.
 

Free Month 2

1) Using the power of regular expressions with Show commands
- We have covered some basic regular expressions in our "Cool IOS Commands" EBook. Here I want to show you more complicated examples of how to use the power of regular expressions to filter output. This will allow the router to do the searching, rather than us doing it manually.

2) Get a router to phone you
- There are many hidden commands in the Cisco IOS. This useful hidden IOS command gets a router to call you.

3) Your questions answered: How to stop password recovery
- By default anyone with physical access to a router can reset the routers' password and gain access to the routers' configuration. Learn how to stop this.

4) Searching for specific text using linenum and includes
- Here we combine two powerful IOS commands to save time when searching for text in show commands.

Free Month 3

1) Save time with the + - / IOS commands
- These are time saving commands and worth knowing - engineers are saving hours with them.

2) Save yourself with reloads
- This could save you a lot of headache! When you are working on a remote router, the last thing you want to happen is that you make a mistake and lock yourself out of that router.

3) More command power
- The more command is great at reading text on the router. You could use it for example to read the contents of a file saved on the router's flash or even a file stored in RAM.

4) Featured Cisco Utility - How much bandwidth does a voice call use?
- When converting an analog voice signal to digital, various codecs (coder-decoder algorithms) can be used. How much bandwidth do they actually
use?

Free Month 4

1) Setting up a hybrid back-to-back router/frame-relay switch
Frame-Relay is still to be found in many Cisco courses and in a lot of networks. Learn to set up a router as a frame-relay switch.

2) Startup-config too big to save?
I was asked recently if I could help a customer who had a router that would not save the config as it was too big.

3) Your Questions answered: Required CME files?
What files are required apart from IOS on CME

4) Your input - Speed/Duplex mismatches
Your point with regard to speed/duplex mismatches (this topic is covered in the premium newsletter, please subscribe to read), it may be worth pointing out some of the commands that can be used on switches to see errors...

Month 5

1) CCNA/CCNP Topic - OSPF Network & Passive Commands - Part 1
There is often confusion on what mask should be used when using the network command in OSPF (and other routing protocols).

2) CCIP/CCNP Topic - QOS Part 1
Thinking of deploying VOIP? Or do you simply want to get more out of what you already have – improve responsiveness and utilisation?

3) Service config-compress questions
A couple of questions regarding use of the "service compress-config" option.

Month 6

1) CCNA/CCNP Topic - OSPF Network & Passive Commands - Part 2
Just thought that something that might be worth sharing is that is a more logical way of provisioning OSPF - making it easier to remember

2) CCIP/CCNP Topic - QOS - Cisco's Modular Quality of Service CLI - Part 2
The Cisco IOS Command Line Interpreter (EXEC) includes an extension that makes Classed-Based deployment of QOS simple.

3) VoIP - get routers with phones to talk to each other - Part 1
What are FXS ports and how to get analogue phones to call each other?
 

More to follow....