Thursday, June 2, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Dhoni acknowledges role of quartet
Before he led India to a World Cup victory, MS Dhoni's earliest identity as a cricketer had been attached to the Twenty20 format. It was India's victory in the World Twenty20 under Dhoni that was one of the factors that led to the speedy launch of the Indian Premier League. Dhoni then led his team, the Chennai Super Kings, to a double last year, winning the IPL and the Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa.
Yet, more than once during this World Cup, Dhoni has demonstrated that he is conscious of the course taken by Indian cricket in the last three decades and where Saturday's victory now stands.
At the media conference following India's six-wicket victory, Dhoni was asked by an English reporter to explain what the World Cup victory actually meant to Indians who, Dhoni was told, did not enjoy much success in other world-level sport. Yuvraj Singh, the World Cup's Player of the Tournament sitting next to Dhoni, raised his eyebrow, and his captain took the opportunity to say that India had been growing as a nation that supports sport, citing the examples from shooting, badminton, hockey and football.
But cricket, Dhoni said, "was special" to Indians because of the change that the 1983 victory achieved for Indian cricket. "People started loving the sport and you then saw two individuals making their debut, Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar." He then said that the successful careers of Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, which began in 1996, marked the next step. "This was the chain of players because of whom we are in this position right now. We earn a lot of money, we get a lot respect and what we are trying to do is to pass it onto the next generation."
Three of the players mentioned by Dhoni were at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday night; Tendulkar a part of Dhoni's team, Kumble in the audience and new commentator-columnist Ganguly, who stood at the boundary on the far side of dressing room from where he watched the Indian team go past on its lap of honour with Tendulkar sitting on Yusuf Pathan's shoulders. Ganguly, who led India to the final of the 2003 World Cup and who still responds to India's performance as if he were a part of the team, was beaming. "What a win," he said, "what a performance."
Dhoni was asked to compare his two biggest victories as India captain and said, that while every format was "special" in its own way, "I have always loved the ODI format. Because I always think you see a lot of variety in one-day cricket." The final he said had been the best example. "In this game, we lost a couple of early wickets and then you have two batsmen struggling to get runs." He said that the one-day game showed "a glimpse" of what may not be Test cricket but was a shortened version of its demands.
"Two batsmen looking for survival and looking to get runs at the same time. At the end you saw a slog, from Yuvraj and me. And at the end of it," Dhoni said, "you see a result." It is a summary that would please the ICC enormously which, after the unfortunate 2007 event in the Caribbean, has needed a successful World Cup to prove to its community that the three formats of the sport could survive. Between that World Cup and this one, there has been a mushrooming of the Twenty20 leagues, and was seen as a threat to the 50-over format. Now with the captain of the 2011 World Cup winners, and the biggest audience and market in the sport, enthusiastically endorsing the format, the ICC has further proof of what it has always maintained: that the 50-over game can play a few more innings.
Yet, more than once during this World Cup, Dhoni has demonstrated that he is conscious of the course taken by Indian cricket in the last three decades and where Saturday's victory now stands.
At the media conference following India's six-wicket victory, Dhoni was asked by an English reporter to explain what the World Cup victory actually meant to Indians who, Dhoni was told, did not enjoy much success in other world-level sport. Yuvraj Singh, the World Cup's Player of the Tournament sitting next to Dhoni, raised his eyebrow, and his captain took the opportunity to say that India had been growing as a nation that supports sport, citing the examples from shooting, badminton, hockey and football.
But cricket, Dhoni said, "was special" to Indians because of the change that the 1983 victory achieved for Indian cricket. "People started loving the sport and you then saw two individuals making their debut, Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar." He then said that the successful careers of Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, which began in 1996, marked the next step. "This was the chain of players because of whom we are in this position right now. We earn a lot of money, we get a lot respect and what we are trying to do is to pass it onto the next generation."
Three of the players mentioned by Dhoni were at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday night; Tendulkar a part of Dhoni's team, Kumble in the audience and new commentator-columnist Ganguly, who stood at the boundary on the far side of dressing room from where he watched the Indian team go past on its lap of honour with Tendulkar sitting on Yusuf Pathan's shoulders. Ganguly, who led India to the final of the 2003 World Cup and who still responds to India's performance as if he were a part of the team, was beaming. "What a win," he said, "what a performance."
Dhoni was asked to compare his two biggest victories as India captain and said, that while every format was "special" in its own way, "I have always loved the ODI format. Because I always think you see a lot of variety in one-day cricket." The final he said had been the best example. "In this game, we lost a couple of early wickets and then you have two batsmen struggling to get runs." He said that the one-day game showed "a glimpse" of what may not be Test cricket but was a shortened version of its demands.
"Two batsmen looking for survival and looking to get runs at the same time. At the end you saw a slog, from Yuvraj and me. And at the end of it," Dhoni said, "you see a result." It is a summary that would please the ICC enormously which, after the unfortunate 2007 event in the Caribbean, has needed a successful World Cup to prove to its community that the three formats of the sport could survive. Between that World Cup and this one, there has been a mushrooming of the Twenty20 leagues, and was seen as a threat to the 50-over format. Now with the captain of the 2011 World Cup winners, and the biggest audience and market in the sport, enthusiastically endorsing the format, the ICC has further proof of what it has always maintained: that the 50-over game can play a few more innings.
Sharda Ugra is senior editor at ESPNcricinfo
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Link: http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/story/509399.html
Friday, March 11, 2011
How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP
The Microsoft Loopback adapter is a testing tool for a virtual network environment where network access is not available. Also, you must use the Loopback adapter if there are conflicts with a network adapter or with a network adapter driver. You can bind network clients, protocols, and other network configuration items to the Loopback adapter, and you can install the network adapter driver or network adapter later while retaining the network configuration information. You can also install the Loopback adapter during the unattended installation process.
Installation
To manually install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. If you are in Classic view, click Switch to Category View under Control Panel in the left pane.
3. Double-click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Next.
4. Under See Also in the left pane, click Add Hardware,and then click Next.
5. Click Yes, I have already connected the hardware, and then click Next.
6. At the bottom of the list, click Add a new hardware device, and then click Next.
7. Click Install the hardware that I manually select from a list, and then click Next.
8. Click Network adapters, and then click Next.
9. In the Manufacturer box, click Microsoft.
10. In the Network Adapter box, click Microsoft Loopback Adapter, and then click Next.
11. Click Finish.
After the adapter is installed successfully, you can manually configure its options, as with any other adapter. If the TCP/IP properties are configured to use DHCP, the adapter will eventually use an autonet address (169.254.x.x/16) because the adapter is not actually connected to any physical media. Note By default, TCP/IP properties are configured to use DHCP.
Installation
To manually install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. If you are in Classic view, click Switch to Category View under Control Panel in the left pane.
3. Double-click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Next.
4. Under See Also in the left pane, click Add Hardware,and then click Next.
5. Click Yes, I have already connected the hardware, and then click Next.
6. At the bottom of the list, click Add a new hardware device, and then click Next.
7. Click Install the hardware that I manually select from a list, and then click Next.
8. Click Network adapters, and then click Next.
9. In the Manufacturer box, click Microsoft.
10. In the Network Adapter box, click Microsoft Loopback Adapter, and then click Next.
11. Click Finish.
After the adapter is installed successfully, you can manually configure its options, as with any other adapter. If the TCP/IP properties are configured to use DHCP, the adapter will eventually use an autonet address (169.254.x.x/16) because the adapter is not actually connected to any physical media. Note By default, TCP/IP properties are configured to use DHCP.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
GNS3 Dynamips for Cisco Emulation Step by Step Tutorial
If anyone wants to understand GNS3 for the first time best link ever I got:
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
How to integrate GNS3 with Virtual PC
In this article I want to show you how to extend your posibilities to test a network in GNS3. Sure, it’s simple sometime to use a Loobpack interface on one of your edge routers to simulate an external network, but sometime is useful to have something connected to the router port.
GNS3 is a Graphical Network Simulator that allows emulation of complex networks. It allows you to run a Cisco IOS in a virtual environment on your computer. GNS3 is a graphical front end to a product called Dynagen. Dynamips is the core program that allows IOS emulation.
The Virtual PC Simulator (VPCS) allow you to simulate up to 9 PCs. You can ping/traceroute them, or ping/traceroute the other hosts/routers from the virtual PCs when you study the Cisco routers in the Dynamips. VPCS is not the traditional PC, it is just a program running on the Linux or Windows, and only few network commands can be used in it. But VPCS can give you a big hand when you study the Cisco devices in the Dynamips. VPCS can replace the routers or VMware boxes which are used as PCs in the Dynamips network.
Before we start, I assume that you already have these tools installed. If not, please download and install GNS3 and VPCS.
On the following example I will show you how to configure a network topology including 2 Virtual PCs and one router and how to interconnect them in GNS3. This presentation is simulate a basic network, but after you learn how to do it, you can configure more complex one. You can have a look to the topology to understand better what I’m talking about. Check the link below.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Cisco Router Configuration Commands
| Requirement | Cisco Command |
| Set a console password to cisco | Router(config)#line con 0 Router(config-line)#login Router(config-line)#password cisco |
| Set a telnet password | Router(config)#line vty 0 4 Router(config-line)#login Router(config-line)#password cisco |
| Stop console timing out | Router(config)#line con 0 Router(config-line)#exec-timeout 0 0 |
| Set the enable password to cisco | Router(config)#enable password cisco |
| Set the enable secret password to peter. This password overrides the enable password and is encypted within the config file | Router(config)#enable secret peter |
| Enable an interface | Router(config-if)#no shutdown |
| To disable an interface | Router(config-if)#shutdown |
| Set the clock rate for a router with a DCE cable to 64K | Router(config-if)clock rate 64000 |
| Set a logical bandwidth assignment of 64K to the serial interface | Router(config-if)bandwidth 64 Note that the zeroes are not missing |
| To add an IP address to a interface | Router(config-if)#ip addr 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 |
| To enable RIP on all 172.16.x.y interfaces | Router(config)#router rip Router(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 |
| Disable RIP | Router(config)#no router rip |
| To enable IRGP with a AS of 200, to all interfaces | Router(config)#router igrp 200 Router(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 |
| Disable IGRP | Router(config)#no router igrp 200 |
| Static route the remote network is 172.16.1.0, with a mask of 255.255.255.0, the next hop is 172.16.2.1, at a cost of 5 hops | Router(config)#ip route 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0 172.16.2.1 5 |
| Disable CDP for the whole router | Router(config)#no cdp run |
| Enable CDP for he whole router | Router(config)#cdp run |
| Disable CDP on an interface | Router(config-if)#no cdp enable |
Cisco Router Show Commands
| Requirement | Cisco Command |
| View version information | show version |
| View current configuration (DRAM) | show running-config |
| View startup configuration (NVRAM) | show startup-config |
| Show IOS file and flash space | show flash |
| Shows all logs that the router has in its memory | show log |
| View the interface status of interface e0 | show interface e0 |
| Overview all interfaces on the router | show ip interfaces brief |
| View type of serial cable on s0 | show controllers 0 (note the space between the 's' and the '0') |
| Display a summary of connected cdp devices | show cdp neighbor |
| Display detailed information on all devices | show cdp entry * |
| Display current routing protocols | show ip protocols |
| Display IP routing table | show ip route |
| Display access lists, this includes the number of displayed matches | show access-lists |
| Check the router can see the ISDN switch | show isdn status |
| Check a Frame Relay PVC connections | show frame-relay pvc |
| show lmi traffic stats | show frame-relay lmi |
| Display the frame inverse ARP table | show frame-relay map |
Cisco Router Basic Operations
| Requirement | Cisco Command |
| Enable | Enter privileged mode |
| Return to user mode from privileged | disable |
| Exit Router | Logout or exit or quit |
| Recall last command | up arrow or |
| Recall next command | down arrow or |
| Suspend or abort | and and 6 then x |
| Refresh screen output | |
| Compleat Command | TAB |
Cisco Router Copy Commands
| Requirement | Cisco Command |
| Save the current configuration from DRAM to NVRAM | copy running-config startup-config |
| Merge NVRAM configuration to DRAM | copy startup-config running-config |
| Copy DRAM configuration to a TFTP server | copy runing-config tftp |
| Merge TFTP configuration with current router configuration held in DRAM | copy tftp runing-config |
| Backup the IOS onto a TFTP server | copy flash tftp |
| Upgrade the router IOS from a TFTP server | copy tftp flash |
Cisco Router Debug Commands
| Requirement | Cisco Command |
| Enable debug for RIP | debug ip rip |
| Enable summary IGRP debug information | debug ip igrp events |
| Enable detailed IGRP debug information | debug ip igrp transactions |
| Debug IPX RIP | debug ipx routing activity |
| Debug IPX SAP | debug IPX SAP |
| Enable debug for CHAP or PAP | debug ppp authentication |
| Switch all debugging off | no debug all undebug all |
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