Tag: Cisco
GNS3 supports JunOS
A lot of you will know GNS3. GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows simulation of complex networks. With GNS3 you can simulate multiple Cisco routers and the Cisco PIX firewall. GNS3 allows you to emulate real Cisco IOS images, design and experiment with complex networks, connect the virtual lab to the real world … Read More
Cisco Aironet: multiple SSID’s
I have been playing with some Cisco Aironet’s today. Configuration is quite simple and straightforward, but maybe not for everyone: Broadcast two SSID’s, unsecure and secure Authentication via WPA version 2 pre-shared key Management IP adres in management VLAN You are maybe thinking: “stand-alone access points, why no WLAN controller?” I agree, but be honest. … Read More
Configuration Example, IDS / IPS
Upgrade CS MARS
A customer was running CS MARS with version 4.3.6. Lately the Cisco IPS sensor was upgraded to version 7.x. This version wasn’t supported anymore by CS MARS version 4.3.6. That is why the CS MARS needed to be upgraded to 6.x. I don’t have a lot of experience with CS MARS and I couldn’t find … Read More
802.1Q between Catalyst 3750 en PowerConnect 6226
Configuring a 802.1Q connection isn’t that difficult, but you need to know the command line interface and the appropriate commands. Today I configured a 802.1Q connection between a Cisco Catalyst 3750G and a Dell PowerConnect 6226, while configuring I played a little with the trunking options on the PowerConnect and I noticed the following: The … Read More
Configuration Example, Routing
Policy NAT on Cisco router
A colleague of mine had to implement an IPSec VPN tunnel from a customer to a supplier. The customer has a Cisco router for connecting to the Internet, so nothing special. The router is already setup and in production. Configuring an extra IPSec VPN tunnel isn’t very hard, the most important part is the negotiation … Read More
Microsoft IAG
It has been a while since my last post, but time is short these days. Today I had to troubleshoot a Microsoft IAG appliance. Microsoft IAG stands for Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway. And indeed, intelligent it is. NOT. I have seen and configured multiple SSL VPN solutions like Juniper SA, Citrix Access Gateway, Citrix Secure … Read More