Panorama is a nice management tool. It is nice compared to NSM and Security Director:) On the other hand, I had to deal with an issue which is address group content on panorama was different than the firewall. Here is an example; Panorama had AddGroup1 = Addr1 , Addr2, Addr3 Firewall had AddGroup1 = Addr1,
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There are various SSH clients for Windows platforms and up until couple of months ago I was thinking that the best SSH client for me was SecureCRT but I discovered another one called Mobaxterm. This product really took my attention, primary reason of which is the richness of the feature set. Fist look at what
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Slow file transfers must be really bothering everyone. I have a ZyXEL NSA325 NAS device which has a gigabit interface but I am getting extremely low throughput. Unfortunately this has been a problem I think since I bought this device. Now I could finally get hold of time to troubleshoot the issue. Here is my
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This post aims to give an introduction to configuring Palo Alto Networks firewall for initial deployment as it is for beginners, I would like to cover the following topics; Configure management interface settings (i.e IP Address, default gateway) via console Assign IP addresses to ethernet interfaces and default gateway Configure NAT and Security Policies to
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Once you are familiar with one firewall, sometimes it is difficult to be comfortable on another firewall. Here I will list 2 things that you do differently on these firewalls. At least these were the first things I noticed. 1) PING On an SRX firewall, if you ping a remote address, command will be accepted.
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OSPF has slightly different way of removing routes compared to BGP. On this short post, I will present how a link failure is propagated to other routers on OSPF domain. For this test, I have the following topology section in which AREA3 is connected to AREA0 and we simulate a link failure on the Junos
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What happens when you change a BGP import routing policy in your neighbor configuration? Changes take effect immediately or we need to issue the soft-inbound command to request the routes? Let’s see by an example. We received the route 10.83.0.0/24 from 10.82.1.9 already as you see below. root@J29> show route protocol bgp terse 10.83.0.0/24 inet.0:
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On this micro post, I would like to show one reason why a BGP open message receives a TCP RST. For this test, I set up a BGP neighborship between two peers: PeerA(10.82.1.9) and PeerB(10.82.1.10) PeerA initiates the connection and look what happens in the packet capture. According to the sequence, TCP seems to have
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On this post, I will show an example of loop prevention on OSPF protocol. There is a nice document at here about the principles of loop prevention. What I will just do is to show this on Junos. In order to show this, I am using the following topology; On this topology, J40 and J32
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On this post, I will try to show how OSPF behaves when there are two equal cost paths towards a destination. To demonstrate this, I have prepared my usual topology. On this topology all routers are running OSPF but our focus is on the router J32 which is circled at the bottom and our destination
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