Configuration Example, Routing

Cisco DHCP server & VRF

René Jorissen on December 12, 2012 4 Comments • Tags: #cisco #class #connected #dhcp #excluded-address #exclusion #ios #server #use #vrf

I had some issues while configuring some VRF’s on a Cisco router and using that router as a DHCP server. First of all the router wasn’t binding any DHCP request. The DHCP server configuration is defined below. ip dhcp pool guest vrf vrf-guest network 10.10.0.0 255.255.252.0 default-router 10.10.0.1 domain-name internet-only.nl dns-server 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.222 The configuration … Read More

Configuration Example, Quality of Service

CB-WFQ Bandwidth Allocation

René Jorissen on January 13, 2010 0 Comments • Tags: #bandwidth #based #cbwfq #class #class-based #fair #max-reserved #priority #queueing #weighted

When configuring Quality of Service with CB-WFQ I am always puzzling to get the correct classes. When configuring CB-WFQ it is important to remember that the router does not allow the class queues to consume more than 75% of the total interface bandwidth. The remaining 25% are used for the default class as well as … Read More

Firewalling, Security

Cisco ASA: DNS reply filtering

René Jorissen on August 28, 2009 7 Comments • Tags: #asa #cache #class #dns #drop #expression #filtering #inspect #inspection #map #policy-map #regex #regular #request #url

Today I was asked to block access to multiple websites and the only device capable of doing this was the firewall. This customer is using a Cisco ASA firewall, which supports basic URL filtering. This customers wanted to block HTTP and HTTPS websites. HTTPS websites use a SSL tunnel from the end device to the … Read More