Configuration Example, Management
RADIUS Authentication
I am sure that many of you would like to do the same thing and many of you successfully configured it. I am trying to configure RADIUS Authentication on my Cisco 877W. I have two different RADIUS policies, the first for privilege level 1 and the second for privilege level 15. I am using Microsoft … Read More
Network simulator
More often I have to change critical configuration options in live environments, but sometimes I don’t no the effect of these changes on the network. So I would like to build a test network where I can check the impact of the configuration changes. A good network simulator would definitely help in this situation. Cisco … Read More
Anti-virus / Anti-SPAM, Mail relaying
LDAP and eSafe Gateway
eSafe Gateway can be used for scanning incoming and outgoing SMTP connections for virusses and SPAM. Normally eSafe Gateway doesn’t check incoming mail addresses against a directory like Active Directory or Novell Directory Services. This means that all mail addresses for a trusted domain are forwarded to the internal mail server. In the most ideal … Read More
Configuration Example, IP Telephony
QoS matching for VoIP
Voice over IP is, as you know for sure, very time-sensitive traffic. That is why VoIP signaling and payload traffic should receive enough bandwidth and as less jitter and delay as possible. QoS is an important tool to assign VoIP traffic more preference over “normal” traffic. Important for QoS tools to function correctly is placing … Read More
Cacti, easy going
A decent management server is very important in a network, at least that is my opinion. The most important aspect of a management server is its user friendliness. Our customers are most of the time busy with their own problems and the problems of end users, which include all kind of (silly) problems. So the … Read More
Port-channel Cisco vs. VMware ESX
I have had different discussions with different customers about the load-balancing algorithms between a Cisco switch, configured with a port-channel and a VMware ESX server using multiple NICs. Our VMware consultants always choose Route based on IP hashes as load-balancing algorithm. This means that load-balancing happens on layer 3 of the OSI model (source-destination-IP). In … Read More