Sunday, 17 February 2013

How to check if there are upgrades for your Cisco IOS

It is a good practice to check periodically for new versions of Cisco IOS because of security vulnerabilities. To do it you can use
 Cisco IOS Software Checker
On this page you just need to choose your IOS version,  based on the output of the command:

show version

For instance: 15.2(4)M1

After this the wizard will show you the list of possible updates for your IOS. Next step is to get these updates. It is not so easy as with Microsoft or Linux, you can't just download them. The easiest way is to ask  your Cisco supplier, they usually have access to all Cisco downloads.

Ping does not work

Today I would like to discuss a banal situation: host A is directly connected to host B, ping from host A to host B does not work. What are...