Recently I upgraded dozens of SRX240H2 and SRX340 series Juniper firewalls and around %10 of SRX240H2 boxes either crashed during upgrade or after upgrade and none on 340 series. Although 340 is a newer platform, I would like to be positive and believe the fact that Juniper has improved both hardware and software quality. What
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SRX can send the logs in two formats standard and structured. If you haven’t made any extra config, what you see in the traffic logs is usually standard one. However structured one is easier to read and parse. Look, it is in the format field_name = field_value, so you can parse it or more friendly.
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I wonder if people look at the rating of a company at glassdoor.com before making their decision? Please share your view if you can, I really wonder. I checked the rating of my former employer PAN in Amsterdam and the current rating is 2.1 when the global rating is 3.7 What are your criteria before
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I don’t know if there is any comprehensive list of changes which brings down an interface apart from specifically disabling the interface. So far I recall two of them which are striking and might not be expected to flap interface. If anyone has also experience, it might be a good place to share. per-unit-scheduler Years
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I have got the following error while I was trying to copy a file via SCP on Junos. As per the error, I thought it is something to do with my local permissions but I could read the source backup.conf file. I searched online, numerous entries showed up. yilmaz@host> file copy backup.conf scp://yilmaz@10.1.1.1:~/ yilmaz@10.1.1.1's password:
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if you somehow end up having hundreds of address objects in a PAN firewall and you would like to delete all of them, good luck! probably to prevent accidental removal there is no way on GUI as of now on 7.1.x releases (or I don’t know yet) but if you want to you can use
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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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