There is an interesting website located at http://www.archive.org which contains a utility called the “Way Back When” machine. It allows you to view a cache of websites as they have evolved over the years. I looked back at one of my personal homepages from many moons ago and found a journal entry that makes reference to the first MSN conversation I had with Helen in 2003:

15-03-03
Quite an uneventful week although I did catch up with an old friend online which was rather nice.

And to think we are now getting married!

Not particularly interesting but a few links to stop me from losing them later:

• Running Ntop on Ubuntu
• Block Control for Ubuntu
• Configure a Cut-Thru proxy on a Cisco ASA

I’m pleased to announce (belatedly) that on the 16th October 2008, Helen accepted a half-assed proposal of marriage (yes from me) outside the British Telecom telephone exchange in Newport Pagnell! I was convinced it was a temporary bout of insanity that caused her to agree but then I realised it was thought of dinner at Praego but either way, she’s made me the happiest person in town. W00t!

Current configuration : 2101 bytes
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! Last configuration change at 08:18:36 BST+1 Thu Sep 25 2008
! NVRAM config last updated at 08:18:43 BST+1 Thu Sep 25 2008
!
version 12.4
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
service password-encryption
!
hostname FRS
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
!
!
resource policy
!
no aaa new-model
clock timezone GMT 0
clock summer-time BST+1 date Mar 30 2008 1:00 Oct 26 2008 2:00
clock save interval 8
no network-clock-participate slot 1
no network-clock-participate wic 0
ip subnet-zero
!
!
no ip dhcp use vrf connected
!
!
ip cef
no ip domain lookup
no ip ips deny-action ips-interface
!
frame-relay switching
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!        
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
 no ip address
 shutdown
 duplex auto
 speed auto
!
interface BRI0/0
 no ip address
 shutdown
!        
interface Serial1/0
 no ip address
 shutdown
!
interface Serial1/1
 no ip address
 shutdown
!
interface Serial1/2
 description R2
 no ip address
 encapsulation frame-relay
 clock rate 64000
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
 frame-relay intf-type dce
 frame-relay route 203 interface Serial1/3 302
 frame-relay route 204 interface Serial1/4 402
 frame-relay route 207 interface Serial1/7 702
!
interface Serial1/3
 description R3
 no ip address
 encapsulation frame-relay
 clock rate 64000
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
 frame-relay intf-type dce
 frame-relay route 302 interface Serial1/2 203
!
interface Serial1/4
 no ip address
 encapsulation frame-relay
 clock rate 64000
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
 frame-relay intf-type dce
 frame-relay route 402 interface Serial1/2 204
!
interface Serial1/5
 no ip address
 shutdown
!
interface Serial1/6
 no ip address
 shutdown
!
interface Serial1/7
 description Connection to TS
 ip address 172.16.101.2 255.255.255.252
 encapsulation frame-relay
 clock rate 128000
 no arp frame-relay
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
 frame-relay intf-type dce
 frame-relay route 702 interface Serial1/2 207
!
ip classless
!
!
ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
!
!
control-plane
!
!
!
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!        
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!
!
!
line con 0
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
 login
!
!
end

If you are wondering like I was about how to change the hostname or “CLI prompt” as Cisco seem to refer to it, of a Cisco 11500 series CSS content switch, simply use the prompt command. You don’t even need to go into global configuration mode! It’s worth bearing in mind though that if you login with a new username, the prompt will probably default back to CSS11501.

Example:

CSS11501#  prompt CSS01
CSS01#

Cisco CSS 15500 Switch