Category Archives: Cisco

Cisco DHCP options for PXE boot to SCCM

September 3, 2011 Comments
In this article we will be setting up DHCP options on a Cisco Router for booting PXE clients in a separate subnet than the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Server. To do this we need to setup a DHCP pool with options 66 and 67 to point to the boot files and SCCM server.  Once your Windows Deployment and PXE services are setup and functioning on the SCCM server you

XBOX Live NAT issues and Port Forwarding with Cisco Routers

August 3, 2011 Comments
A common issue th at happens when connecting to XBOX Live is an error with NAT or Network Address Translation where XBOX live will tell you your NAT is Moderate or Strict. This causes issues with talking and playing to other players and friends.

Static NAT and port forwarding on Cisco ASA

August 3, 2011 Comments
In this example we will be setting up a device to do 2 forms of NAT'ing.  THe first example i will do a simple port forward.  The second example we will Nat to a seperate global IP address. Continuing from the following post where we set up port forwarding on a cisco router to an XBOX 360, we will use port forwarding to an XBOX 360 again.  This example can be used for more than just XBOX 360's as long as you

WebVPN / SSL certificate authentication with GoDaddy CA and Cisco ASA

August 3, 2011 Comments
In this configuration we will be setting up a public certificate authority or CA as a trustpoint to authenticate our SSL certificate. We will be suing a cisco ASA running 8.x though running 7.x should be the same.