Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
I have an OpenVPN instance operating on a pfSense firewall virtual machine. Within OpenVPN I’m using both radius-based two factor for authentication, and certificate-based auth in the client. Doing this Continue Reading…
Posting this in case anyone else runs into the same issue. It is not exactly obvious how to get AT&T-assigned static IP’s up and running on your own hardware residing Continue Reading…
Here’s some highlights if you don’t feel like reading: Be very careful – your resulting config may be passing flood-based routing protocol packets, spanning tree BPDU’s, and any other broadcast Continue Reading…
Spent way too long troubleshooting an issue where OpenVPN Connect, on iOS in this case, was connecting to the server successfully, receiving both an IPv6 address and gateway assignment, and Continue Reading…
I may be wrong, but I think the only difference between Cisco’s Quality Management and Advanced Quality Management is the screen recording component, so these same steps may work fine Continue Reading…
I’m a happy proponent of Opengear devices for out of band management (serial and/or VPN); been using them back to 3G days with great success. Fast forward to 2018 and Continue Reading…
Not sure if anyone will ever actually find this article useful, as we’re dealing with ancient technology here, but I figured I’ll write it out just in case. I found Continue Reading…
Are you used to doing this in Cisco IOS? and what you end up with is an easy and obvious local user who can authenticate over SSH using their key Continue Reading…
Just got a new pair of NCS5501 SE’s, and per my article here, they are upgraded to what is currently IOS XR 6.2.25. Next, if you’re coming from Arista, you Continue Reading…
An update to this article; there’s a method to get around the issue I ran into. It is not well documented, and TAC knows nothing about it in my experience, Continue Reading…