Netband Project - Goodies

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IOS Goodies

• send messages to other adminsitrative users through the cli

B1rt1#send *
Enter message, end with CTRL/Z; abort with CTRL/C:
hej hej
^Z
Send message? [confirm]
B1rt1#
***
***
*** Message from tty194 to all terminals:
***
hej hej

B1rt1#
***
***
*** Message from tty194 to all terminals:
***
hej hej

• disable password check on telnet sessions

line vty 0 4
 no login
line vty 5 15
 no login

• log straight into privilege mode

aaa new-model
username admin privilige 15 password cisco 
!
aaa authentication login default group local
aaa authorization console
aaa authorization exec default local

• tells the router to hold messages until it detects no input from the keyboard and no other output from the router.

line con 0
 logging synchronous
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
 logging synchronous
line vty 5
 logging synchronous

Linux Godies

When you look at logs and need realtime monitoring use the -f argument on tail. If you've changed something in the MRTG config file and want to know if it is correct use "tail -f /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log"