Introduction I noticed in Gmail recently they started warning when email messages weren’t encrypted in transit. When I say transit I mean when a message leaves your email server and sends to another mail server / edge server for another
Juniper Netscreen Site-to-Site VPN Rekey
Introduction The problem I was having was as follows. 3 Juniper devices in a hub and spoke topology, 1 HQ and 2 Branch. The 2 Branch firewalls were actually just basically identical configs in one branch on separate DSL lines.
SCP Example Cisco ASA to Linux
Introduction I’m adding this here cause sometimes I’m dense and I forget the command. Command Examples copy running-config scp://dave@myVM/home/dave/running-config-scp Source filename [running-config]? Address or name of remote host [myVM]? Destination username [dave]? Destination filename [home/dave/running-config-scp]? Cryptochecksum: 5b1178ff 4db70c26 45645f8f 7ec33023
Cisco ASA Install SSL Cert
Introduction You no longer need to continue using self signed certs as StartSSL offer them for free. If you need to replace or install a cert for the first time to use with an SSL VPN then this is how to achieve
ScreenOS Policy-Based Routing Commands Software Version 6.3.0.1.0.0.0.0
Introduction This is a reminder for me where to find the commands because there is a bug in the web gui that means whenever you try to apply an action-group it will implement it with a next-hop address and next-hop
Domain Controller to Domain Controller through Non-NATing Firewall
Introduction In most situations you are going to have VPN or private network to allow DC to DC traffic to work across the internet, in fact you would need either a VPN or private link as NAT would not allow
Juniper Netscreen Packet-Tracer Alternative (Debug Flow)
Introduction Thought I would write a quick one on this as I often need to look it up as it is incredibly helpful. Cisco ASA has the packet-tracer command for testing but netscreen firewalls have something a bit different. Debug
Modify ASA Startup Config
Introduction If you ever need to modify an ASA startup config for example if you are changing internet provider and need your wife to just reboot the device so it works with your new ISP’s PPPoE settings, here’s what you
IPv6 Encapsulation using a tunnel broker
Introduction Ever since I started to learn more information about the IPv4 Internet as we know it and its eventual successor I was intrigued how I could connect to this new version of the Internet. Unfortunately my ISP was not
Cisco ASA regex blocking
Introduction I was actually doing some research on DDOS attacks and what the ASA is capable of, when I came across this little known feature. Regex or regular expressions are used to match text strings or patterns in text. My