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 […]
Windows XP L2TP over IPSec dialup client VPN to a Juniper ScreenOS firewall, using Certificates
Before looking at the various configuration steps, we’ll have to take the following assumptions into account : – We don’t want to use the Netscreen Remote client, but we want to use the Windows XP built-in dialup VPN technology that allows us to build PPTP or L2TP/IPSec connections. Juniper screenOS does not support PPTP (which […]
IPSec VPN between Windows Server 2008 and Juniper ScreenOS
In this blog post, I will show you how to set up a IPSec VPN tunnel between a Windows Server and a Juniper ScreenOS based firewall and route traffic between hosts that are located behind these 2 VPN gateways. The Windows Server will acts as a gateway to build a VPN tunnel towards the Juniper […]
Exchange 2007 : Resource Room Mailboxes
Scenario : You have an AD account domain, that holds user accounts used to log on to the network/Outlook, and you have a dedicated Exchange 2007 resource forest, that holds the Exchange infrastructure, (linked) mailboxes, etc. Accounts in the account domain are synced from the account domain to disabled accounts in the Exchange forest (e.g. […]
Juniper ScreenOS Admin authentication using Windows based IAS (Radius)
On popular request, this is a quick write-up on how to set up a Juniper screenOS firewall to use an external Radius server (I’ll use Windows IAS) to authenticate administrators and to let the Radius server to assign admin privileges (read-only or read-write) First, you will need to set up an dedicated external Authentication server […]
My very best wishes…
The year is almost over, so I guessed this would be the perfect time to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a healthy, successful and splendid New Year. 2008 has been quite busy for me… I’ve migrated this blog from Sharepoint to WordPress, made this blog available on the internet over ipv6, […]
Blog now available over IPv6
I just wanted to share with you that, from this point forward, this blog and forum are now available over IPv6 (it might take a little while before all DNS servers are updated, but it should be fine before the end of the day I guess) If you access this website via IPv6, you should […]
Using Fedora 9 as an OSPF / BGP router (Quagga / Zebra) and set up BGP between Linux and Juniper ScreenOS
In this post, I’m going to show you how to set up a Linux host (Fedora Core 9) and use it as a BGP enabled router. In order to fully understand the setup & configuration, please have a look at this blog post first, because I’ll use the setup in that post as a foundation […]
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It started snowing today, so I guessed it would be the perfect timing to write a quick and dirty howto on getting connected to the internet over IPv6, using a Juniper ssg5. I’ll also discuss the easy steps to configure Windows and Linux clients for IPv6 and access to the internet. Before looking at the […]