Juniper ScreenOS BGP Basics : a simple iBGP test case
As explained in one of my earlier posts, ScreenOS supports a couple of ways to provide for dynamic routing. Today, I’m going to explain some basic implementations of BGP on ScreenOS. Unlike my post on OSPF, I won’t be going too much into all the details of what BGP is and how it works, but […]
PHP performance on Windows 2008/IIS7
My discussion forum has been running for more than a month now, and I guessed it was about time to have a look at the performance of the web site. The forum is based on bbPress, uses PHP 5.2.x and runs on a MySQL back end. In my configuration, the entire setup is running on […]
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 […]
Windows Live Writer unable to connect to WordPress Blog
Keywords : Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server – System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected end of file while parsing Name has occurred – After moving my old Sharepoint based blog to WordPress, I have encountered some problems when trying to connect Windows Live Writer to WordPress. When trying to connect Live Writer to my blog, I received […]
Free tool – PVE TCP Ping Utility – v1.0.0.1
I wanted to share a small utility that I wrote a while ago, allowing you to run a non-interactive ‘ping’ to a tcp port (e.g. from within a script). This could for example allow you to bring up a VPN tunnel from a script (by generating traffic to a target host), to determine whether a […]
WMI ADAP was unable to create the object Win32_PerfRawData_ ASPNET_2050727_ASPNETAppsv2050727
Scenario : OpsMgr SP1 (RC, but problem also exists in the RTM version) on Windows Server 2003 SP2 fully patched, OpsMgr agents deployed to various servers. Soon after deploying the agents, I started getting the following error message on various servers : WMI ADAP was unable to create the object Win32_PerfRawData_ASPNET_2050727_ASPNETAppsv2050727 for Performance Library ASP.NET_2.0.50727 […]
Freetools website down ! – Update : website online again
Hello all, Just wanted to let you know that the website hosting my free tools (http://users.telenet.be/internet.activities/freetools or http://freetools.corelan.be ) is down for a couple of hours. My ISP has promised to solve the issue before the end of the day, so let’s cross fingers. I apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. If you need […]