Cisco IOS Flexible NetFlow
Browsing through the Cisco White Papers I stumbled on a new white paper about Flexible NetFlow. According to the white paper, Flexible NetFlow provides enhanced optimization of the network infrastructure, reduces costs, and improves capacity planning and security detection beyond other flow based technologies available today. Key Advantages to using Flexible NetFlow: Flexibility, scalability, aggregation … Read More
Configuration Mode Locking
While browsing some networking related blogs, so stumbled on a nice new feature in Cisco IOS on 6200networks.com. The feature prevents multiple users from changing the configuration of a network component simultaneous. This feature, configuration mode locking, is available in two different modes: Automatic – the session is locked, when you log in to the … Read More
Another Ictivity Connectivity blog
Another Ictivity Connectivity Consultant started a blog on the internet. Peter Bazelmans, a very experienced Connectivity Consultant started the blog PBSPlaza – Building things with IP… Check out some outtakes from this blog: The nice thing working with Cisco is that you always hear about features from which you never heard before. This is also … Read More
Configuration Example, Security
Cygwin with OpenSSL for CSR generation
A lot of services, which are published to the Internet, are secured with SSL certificates. A lot of times we use SSL certificates to secure communications when implementing ISA reverse proxy servers, Citrix Secure Gateway servers and/or Cisco WebVPN portals. When you want to secure a connection with a SSL certificate you have to create … Read More
Configuration Example, Firewalling
Secure Copy Server Cisco ASA
Lately there are a lot of changes in the firmware and the ASDM for the Cisco ASA firewalls. This means a lot of copying from files to the flash memory of the specific appliances. Normally when upgrading the software from an appliance I use a computer on the customer network. This could be my own … Read More
RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 on VMware
I had to install and configure RSA Authentication Manager 7.1. Looking at the Supported Platforms I couldn’t find VMware ESX as supported platform. VMware ESX was supported for RSA AU6.1. So I thought by myself, let’s give it a try. What I noticed first was the size of the installer. The installation file for RSA … Read More