At the heart of Cisco's new SMB products is a different approach and a different operating system than that which it has traditionally delivered to big enterprise customers. As opposed to Cisco's own IOS operating system, the open source Linux operating system is the mainstay in the new SMB products

Nagios provides a monitoring option to evaluate routers and switches using SNMP, Simple Network Management Protocol. This course will show you how to set up Nagios and specifically how to locate the information you want to monitor with SNMP on a Cisco router. This is a Free Course available to anyone.

Netflow with Cisco routers can be set up and integrated with Nagios for detailed information about traffic data on your routers and switches. Using nfdump and nfsen this data can be gathered and charted and then connected to the Nagios interface.

For us to be able to drive the price points in this market space and the complexity down, these are not IOS-based products," Mark Monday, Cisco's vice president and general manager of small business solutions, told InternetNews.com. "It is a Linux underlying operating system.

It’s a little known fact that the fimware on Linksys routers is open-source. In fact, the operating system on WRT54G’s version 4 and below is Linux. Some time ago, people took advantage of this and made their own replacement firmware images for their routers.

To reset your CISCO router configuration, type this command.

Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.

Open source appliance maker Vyatta has unveiled the 3500 networking appliance family, which combines routing, firewall and VPN functionality. Vyatta claims it costs 1/20th the price of rival Cisco gear. But are partners and customers listening?

"The news is official now: Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc..." -- The road is still long for Cisco to embrace the Free Software Movement. Hope they'll release their products under the GPL License...