Juniper ScreenOS : defeating iBGP full mesh requirement using route reflectors and confederations
As explained in one of my earlier posts, one of the requirements to successfully setup and operate an iBGP configuration is that all iBGP clients need to have a BGP connection to all other iBGP clients. (= full mesh). This is required because an iBGP device only exchanges information about its own networks and it […]
Juniper : Netscreen/ScreenOS to HTML (ns2html) + audit your firewall config (nipper)
A short while ago, I came across 2 really nice tools that will help – visualizing screenos configs into html pages – auditing firewall configs Converting screenos to html The first tool, called ns2html, was developed by Rodrigo Pace de Barros and can be found at http://ns2html.sourceforge.net/ It is written in perl and both […]
Cheatsheet : Cracking WPA2 PSK with Backtrack 4, aircrack-ng and John The Ripper
Basic steps : Put interface in monitor mode Find wireless network (protected with WPA2 and a Pre Shared Key) Capture all packets Wait until you see a client and deauthenticate the client, so the handshake can be captured Crack the key using a dictionary file (or via John The Ripper) I’ll use a Dlink […]
Cheatsheet : Cracking WEP with Backtrack 4 and aircrack-ng
I know, there a probably already a zillion number of websites that show how to crack WEP. So I guess this will be website zillion+1 learning how to audit your own WEP security. To be honest, the main reason I’m putting this info on this blog because I just wanted it as a quick reference- […]
Juniper Screenos : Redundant multi-exitpoint ISP routing failover using multiple vrouters, multiple OSPF areas and eBGP
Introduction As you most likely already know, Juniper screenOS supports a couple of dynamic routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, RIP). These protocols can be used to build very powerful and redundant networks, however there are some screenos specific issues with these implementations, and these issues may introduce a little bit of complexity in the design and […]
Nessus/OpenVAS wrapper for ike-scan
ike-scan is a great tool to audit VPN/IPSec implementations. This tool, which runs under Lunix, Unix, MacOS and Windows, can be found at www.nta-monitor.com/tools/ike-scan/ (Latest version at time of writing is 1.9). My Nessus ike-scan NASL wrapper may or may not work with earlier versions or newer versions, so test test test) Some of the […]
Monitoring your network with Powershell
I have written a small powershell script that will help you to monitor various hosts on your network. Instead of using ping to see if a host is alive, this script will connect to tcp ports, so you can also monitor hosts behind firewalls (or hosts that cannot be pinged). In addition to this, you […]
Juniper : Netscreen Remote Dial-UP VPN with AD Radius Authentication and route based VPN / tunnel interface
The following procedure explains how to set up a Juniper ScreenOS based firewall to accept Netscreen Remote Client VPN connections and authenticate users using Active Directory (Radius via Windows 2003 IAS or Windows 2008 NPS). We’ll assume that all traffic to from the client to the 192.168.0.0/16 networks needs to pass via the client VPN […]
Exchange 2007 : Powershell script to select optimal database for a new mailbox
If you have multiple Storage Groups / Databases on your Exchange 2007 server, you may want to try to spread your mailboxes over all databases. You could use your “gut feeling” and/or select a database at random, or you could use a simple script to select the “best” database for hosting a new mailbox. The […]