Building IPSec VPN with Juniper Netscreen ScreenOS (CJFV)
A few days ago, I have posted some ScreenOS basics on this blog. Today, it is time to take it one step further and to look at setting up and especially troubleshooting IPSec VPN’s with Juniper Netscreen devices. The need for VPN A VPN can be defined as the simulation of a private connection by […]
Juniper Firewall ScreenOS Basics (CJFV)
ScreenOS Concepts & Terminology The following document is based on ScreenOS v5.4.0r7.0 – Interface = connection to a specific subnet. An interface is assigned an IP address only if firewall is operating in L3 mode. Default interface names can vary on different Netscreen devices. – Zone : logical grouping of subnets and interfaces. All devices […]
Cisco switch IOS cheat sheet
Reset to factory defaults : connect console (9600/8/None/1, no flow control) take out power cable press mode button (at the front), hold it, and put power cable back switch will go into recovery mode run : flash_init load_helper rename the config file : rename flash:config.txt flash:config.old run : boot When asked to enter the initial […]
Windows 2003 Server Network Load Balancing (NLB) for IIS based SMTP services
In this post, I will explain how to set up 2 or more Windows 2003 servers to use the Windows Server built-in NLB functionalities in order to provide high availability and network load balancing for IIS based SMTP services. Requirements You need to have at least 2 servers that communicate to each other over 2 […]
Free Tool – Password Generator dll for Visual Studio (and other languages)
Because some of my own applications required the ability to create random passwords, I decided to write a small dll that will allow me to implement the generation of random passwords in a fast and easy way. You can download the dll from How to use the dll in Visual Studio Create a new Visual […]
Free tool – PVE pcap statistics collector
Keywords : Wireshark Out Of Memory tcpdump statistics pcap The story I’m about to tell may sound familiar to most of you. You’ve been asked to gather some bandwidth utilization statistics on one of your servers. You’ve installed Wireshark on the server to capture all traffic, or you’ve used linux’ tcpdump to capture all traffic. […]
Free Tool – Exchange 2007 Outbound SMTP gateway redundancy
(a.k.a. PVE Exch2007 Rerouter manual) Keywords : Exchange 2007 outbound SMTP relay redundancy SendConnector outgoing mail high availability Microsoft Exchange 2007 allows you to consolidate your messaging infrastructure and host more users on one server. Combined with the introduction of new server roles, Exchange 2007 allows for high levels of redundancy and resilience, ensuring uptime […]