Network design, architecture, thinking, working. Tech.
I notice that Cisco has released 2.1.0 for the Cisco ACE today. A quick read of the release notes show lots of fun goodies packed inside. These features are starting to ‘catch up’ with the F5. I have installed the ANM 1.2 management platform in the last couple of weeks and will post a review [...]
A short note on how to erase the configuration in your Netscreen firewall. Mainly so I can find it next time….
Debugging on the Netscreen wasn’t all the obvious to me. Because I don’t always work on Netscreens here is a note to myself to remember how to do it.
In a recent post on Two OSPF Processes on an ASA firewall Christian asked why you would want to do this. Here is one case of a design that needs secure routing :
ìkewlî is the network geeks word that has the same meaning as gnarly (surfer culture), sick (teen subculture), wicked (american movies). That is, it can mean something magnificent, or something so retarded or mind bendingly stupid as to be beneath contempt and varying degrees in between. Not normally used in executive meetings or board level [...]
Sometimes, thinking too much stops you from checking the basics. I have often wished that the Cisco ASA supported more than one routing process like the Juniper Netscreen does (which does this brilliantly). Why didn’t I look for this sooner ?-
The market has been commenting on the rise of Juniper for some years and the fact that Cisco has not been able to stop them growing. Well, we can now see that Cisco was listening to the stock market by spending a lot of time and money developing a new operating system. Oh yeah, and [...]
Today I was working at a customer site and using their guest wireless network and was having DNS problems, and not for the first time this week. It could be the router, it could be the provider. I thought about it for a bit and went searching other DNS servers and found OpenDNS. OpenDNS seems [...]
