Using 2 internet links with Juniper screenos Firewalls to separate traffic (pbr) and apply traffic shaping
Scenario : you have 1 Juniper firewall, which has 2 internet connections : an expensive but reliable 4Mbit connection, and a fast, less expensive, but less reliable 20Mbit connection. Goal : use the reliable connection for smtp traffic (1Mbit) and http traffic (3Mbit), and route all other internet traffic over the other connection The techniques […]
Using OSPF on Juniper Netscreen Firewalls
Introduction to OSPF OSPF is a link-state (dynamic) routing protocol that operates within an autonomous system. OSPF falls within the group of Interior Gateway Protocols. Devices that use OSPF will advertise link state information. The devices generate Link State Advertisements (LSA’s) for directly connected links, and will forward LSAs received from other devices to ensure […]
Free Tool – Cisco Ironport C350 Safelist / Blocklist merge utility
If you have multiple Cisco Ironport C350 devices, you may have noticed that safelist / blocklist entries are bound to an individual device. So if your Ironport devices are both installed to handle incoming mails, end users need to manage safelists/blocklists on both devices in order to be sure that both devices operate in the […]
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 […]
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 – PVE SMTP Open Relay Tester
I have decided to make some of my old (and new) tools and scripts available to the community. The first (6 years old but still useful) tool is my SMTP Open Relay Tester. This small standalone Windows console application (no installation, no dll’s) will test if a given smtp server accepts third party relays or […]