Category: Configuration Example
Configuration Example, Management
CactiEZ – configuration basics
Every time I install CactiEZ or Cacti on another platform, I am searching for the commands to basically install the most common parameters, like static IP addressing, NTP sync and time zones. Several times I thought about writing a simple article with the necessary commands and final I had time to create it. Networking netconfig … Read More
Configuration Example, Wireless
AeroHive Spectrum Analysis
One cool feature about AeroHive is the build-in Spectrum Analysis feature, which is enabled by default from HiveOS 4 and higher. Spectrum analysis is very useful to get a view of the RF environment near an access-point. This is especially useful when troubleshooting bad connections (high volume of retransmissions) or other problems related to the … Read More
Configuration Example, Firewalling
Cisco ASA – Reset TCP connection
“Normal” TCP applications use a three-way handshake to establish a session. After data has been send the session is closed. Some legacy applications don’t always close a TCP session. They keep the session open, even when the session is idle for a long time (+ 2 hours). When the session is idle and a client … Read More
Configuration Example, Security
Windows CA template – web server and private key export
Creating a web server certificate request is very easy when using a Windows CA server. There is one disadvantage. The requested certificate is directly stored in the user store (by default) or the local computer store, if specified during the request. The disadvantage is that you cannot export the requested certificate including the private keys. … Read More
Configuration Example, Firewalling, Routing
NBAR and smart filtering
NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition) is a cool Cisco tool to identify and classify content flowing through a router. You can identify applications as mission critical, business-related, non-critical or unwanted. Once these mission critical applications are classified they can be guaranteed a minimum amount of bandwidth, policy routed, and marked for preferential treatment. Non-critical applications … Read More
Configuration Example, IPSec / SSL VPN
OpenVPN ALS
A few days ago I installed and configured the SSL VPN solution OpenVPN ALS, which is a direct descendant of Adito, which has a fork of SSL-Explorer. OpenVPN ALS is a simple to use SSL VPN solution to publish multiple services via browser-based portal. OpenVPN uses Java to publish multiple services. OpenVPN ALS isn’t an … Read More