... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREQceSePlE

I can’t tell you how many times I’m working with a client and I grab a piece of equipment that no one knows the ip address of. I have written articles in the past showing you how to figure out the ip address of the device when it’s some sort of network equipment. The other day I ran into the same scenario with a client who purchased a Profitap IOTA. Not to get into salesman mode but the IOTA is an inline packet capture analysis tool. If you want more information go to https://www.profitap.com/iota-1g. They didn’t want to reset the unit but didn’t know if had a static ip or dhcp enabled, so I showed them how to figure it out by capturing some packets. The key point in this exercise is to ensure you are connected to the device management port, or the port read the full article at ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1LewwURWE

Aircheck SSID AP Troubleshooting it is quite common to have several physical access points support the same SSID. Every vendor has their own way of handling handoffs and in most cases, it works pretty good. But what do you do when you suspect one access point is causing an issue? I don’t care which operating system you are using, it is very difficult to select one physical access point to connect to. I should know, I tried for hours with android and several windows applications with no luck. In this video, a client had an issue where clients would complain that they intermittently couldn’t get internet access. That’s when remembered my previous point. How can I troubleshoot this. In the past, I would physically power off access points to test this theory, but today I had my NetAlly AirCheck G2 and thought I would give it a try. Fortunately it was pretty straightforward. I configured my wireless security settings and manually connected to the access points. In the video below you will see that it only took a few minutes to determine that one of the access points was not passing DHCP. It would have taken me about an hour to physically or virtually trace the connections alone. After some more investigative work, I determined that the access point was new access point on a VLAN that did not have any dhcp configured. We simply changed the VLAN configuration and, boom, internet. Of course I took an extra 10 minutes to confirm that all the access points forwarded DHCP packets, not just the one we worked on. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqB6ezvaOjs

tons of info at www.thetechfirm.com I was working with a project team installing over 100 switches across 3 towers which is daunting enough. To top it off, it was active construction site, which means power is not reliable and in some cases, no elevators were available. Me and another contractor’s responsibility was to get as many switches racked and configured within my 3 week period there. The contractor, I was working with was not interested in installing the equipment at all and I appreciated his honesty. I talked him into doing one rack together so he can at least what is involved. Since I was, um, more seasoned ;) I volunteered to rack the remaining switches and he can configure them. Trust me, I got the short end of that stick big time. Racking the switches involved physically retrieving the equipment from the storage room in the basement, transporting it to the relevant floors, unboxing, installing, labelling, discarding the empty boxes and wrapping the equipment with bags to protect against dust. If we had power, the other consultant configured the equipment. If we didn’t have power, we noted it and moved on. The next day the project manager asked me if I would be able to manage since the other consultant would not be in that day. I asked what exactly he was talking about. He thought the two of us were racking the switches on all the floors. I chuckled and explained that one person can do it. The project manager was shocked and said that he spoke to a few network analysts and all of them said it was a two person job. He then asked if I mind showing him exactly how it did it. Unfortunately I’m not up on the new fancy terms to properly title this methodology. Some people call it a lifehack, a hack, but I prefer a tip or trick. What I couldn’t show you in the video is that it doesn’t matter if you need to install one or 5 switches, it the same process. The only difference is with more than one switch, start with the bottom one and use the existing switch as a shelf to support the new switch and work your way up. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_DRMYlUhI