When I saw this book on the coming soon list I was definitely excited. Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Office of Mandiant, has delivered a book surrounding the venerable Security Onion distribution entitled “The Practice of Network Security Monitoring.. After the…
A recent post by Greg Ferro over at Etherealmind exposed me to Sublime Text 2. This multiple format text manipulation software has seen some some great plugins. As pointed out by Greg, there is a Github hosted plugin for Cisco…
One of my most popular blogs on Cisco Inferno is the ability to install and run an ASA firewall by Cisco on GNS3. Since then I have shifted to a Macbook Pro and want to run everything in OSX. I…
I have a various number of devices in my lab. I constantly deploy them, rework them, and lab new things. Once up and operating I generally move off a console connection and move to SSH. Well sometimes there poses a…
Ever needed to deploy a device where multiple engineers are working in tandem. This could possibly be from different sites or someone peer reviewing configurations with you. I have. I have also not be able to access a phone or…
In the land of JUNOS, in the fires of Mount Doom. No, I’ll resist but I felt like I had Eye of Sauron on me. On a UNIX OS a concept of slices exist. The reason these exist are due…
As previous blogs have indicated I have my hands on a Juniper Networks EX-2200. This device has great functionality what I found great was the dual-purpose uplink ports. As pictured below these ports are linked and can take either a RJ-45…
Outage windows. They vary from after 5pm, to a 4 hour window per quarter, and even just 17 seconds per year. They are valuable. They are something that shouldn’t be squandered. The sad thing is that some treat them was…
Back on the juniper posts today, I am going to jump into local user authentication. Juniper offer quite a few options on configuring user based access. I will start to explore these among many other topics this year. I am of the…
Now some might say this is a silly blog post, especially since I have an Opengear 5004 console server. At this stage I haven’t explored all its uses so it is not in “production” at home. I currently SSH home…
Certification requires a lot of lab time. I mean a lot. Hundreds of hours of thorough, insightful, and meaningful labbing. Let alone the time invested behind the CLI of a CCIE certification. There are two routes these days that most…
A network is a dynamic, living entity. It changes based upon business requirements and needs to be flexible and scalable. Technology jumps ahead by leaps and bounds and as it changes as does the requirements of out networks. Documentation is something that is rarely…
I don’t have a blog roll yet but there are a few people in the industry that I will read a post from no matter what or take their opinion with far more weight that others. For those new to…
Today saw me in a spot where I had a dead Fiber SFP. You guessed it. 3750 chassis. Well I only had a few laying around and some were Linksys and one was stripped of stickers. Needing this link back…