From the monthly archives:

March 2007

No I’m not CAN Certified

by patrick.ogenstad on March 24, 2007

During the week I wrote a certification exam for Cisco, before the actual exam I was presented by a survey where they ask questions like background and experience. One of the questions was for which existing certifications I held.

From the Novell camp they had listed CAN, CNE and MCNE. I archived my CNA status in 1998 but haven’t really thought of pursuing the CAN certification. Since it isn’t listed on the Novell page for certifications, I’ll give you a hint on how to reach your goal.

If you already have the CNA status you’re ready to go, otherwise just follow the guidelines provided by Novell  before you start. Then when it’s time to write your CV just open up a word processor which has automatic spell check and write about your trophies hopefully the program will replace CNA with CAN, voila!

I haven’t seen that many CAN’s in the real world although I noticed one of the authors who writes for Syngress has it, good for him!

I would also guess that a lot of happy jobseekers have listed the CAN certification in their resumes. :)

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Cisco ASA 5505 and DHCP Client Problems

by patrick.ogenstad on March 14, 2007


It’s a shame but my brand new Cisco ASA 5505 has just been sitting on my desk untouched for two weeks. The only think I’ve noticed about it is that it still had the old Cisco logo. Basically I’ve watching it from time to time without having time to play with it.

Finally I had some time to spare and I connected it to my cable modem, I have an ADSL connection with a few DHCP addresses so at first I just connected the device with the default configuration. The intelligent network seemed nowhere in sight and nothing worked. [click to continue...]

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