Just met Tom Hollingsworth randomly in the hallway. Here's a shout out to "the" networking nerd. Check out his blog: http://networkingnerd.net

The first full day at Cisco Live 2012 was a blast! I picked up quite a bit of info on MPLS (stay tuned for a future blog about that). Also, I met Terry Slattery who is a tremendously nice guy and for those who don't know, is a distinguished CCIE. 

The World of Solutions is great, lots of great vendors and booths. Tons of free t-shirts and trinkets. And of course the free food and beverages are nice too. The WoS is always well done and this year is spot on.

The wireless systems at CLUS have been plagued up to this point. They were working hard on it though and have said they've rectified the issues. We'll see how the rest of the week goes, hopefully a little smoother.

I have arrived! Here's what I've got so far:

Registration is a breeze.

There are Cisco people everywhere directing traffic, even in the hotel lobby.

The bus is a little slow, but beats walking uphill.

Weather is perfect! Why don't I live here yet?

Keep checking back, more to come...

World IPv6 Launch will be here June 6. If you haven't heard of it, this is the day where several large companies that have an Internet presence (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.) will permanently enable IPv6 for their online services. 

The following day, June 7, Infoblox is featuring an IPv6 webinar with host Cricket Liu. This webinar will focus on the following topics:

Cisco has created a new rendition of their Cisco Live website called Cisco Live 365. You can register with the site for free and gain access to some of the conference materials presented at the various Cisco Live conferences around the world throughout the year.

If you are signed up for CiscoLive2012.com (because you are attending Cisco Live in San Diego this June), then your credentials for that website don't apparently work automatically at the new site. To get access to the new site using your current credentials, login to the old site CiscoLive2012.com, then click on Registration, and click on the huge button that says Enter Cisco Live 365. A new tab or window should open and voilà, you're in.

Have you ever wanted to merge a bunch of text files together into one large one? For example, if you use a tool to go grab a bunch of show command results and output it to a text file per device, it's handy if you can have the operating system merge all that together for you. Many of you have likely done this at one point or another, but I figured it was worth capturing here to share the syntax.

So, if you are in a Windows command prompt, you can use the type command to output the contents of a file.

C:\>type text1.txt
This is a test. 

Then you can use the type command plus the double arrows to merge a bunch of files:

C:\>type *.txt >> merge.txt

text1.txt

text2.txt

text3.txt

text4.txt

This leaves you with all the original files plus a new one called merge.txt. Piece of cake.