About

My name is Nish Vamadevan and Fnode is the new face of (nishv.com) where I used to post my blogs on. I mainly concentrate on the Networking, DNS and Security side of things, thus this website mainly consist of those things along with any interesting and informative aspects of IT which I encounter on a day-to-day basis.

This is my lab where I do most of the testing…

The Rack on the left running Internetwork Expert’s CCIE R&S v4 Topology, and the one on the right runs my own topologies depending on what mood I’m on…

Hardware Spec:

Rack 1

R1 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R2 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R3 – Cisco 2611XM (128/32)
R4 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R5 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R6 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)

BB1 – Cisco 2612
BB2 – Cisco 2501
BB3 – Cisco 2501

FRS – BB1 – Cisco 2612

SW1 – Cisco 3550 EMI (48 Port)
SW2 – Cisco 3550 EMI (48 Port)
SW3 – Cisco 3550 EMI (48 Port)
SW4 – Cisco 3550 EMI (48 Port)

AS – Cisco 2610 + 32 ASYNC

Rack 2

R1 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R2 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R3 – Cisco 2691 (256/64)
R4 – Cisco 2610 (64/16)
R5 – Cisco 2610 (64/16)

SW1 – Cisco 2950T (24 Port)
SW2 – Cisco 2950T (24 Port)

AS – Cisco 2509

Other

Cisco 877W, Linksys WAG160N