I come from a strong BIG IP F5 background and wanted to explorer alternatives to their LTM product line. BIG IP F5 LTMs are their Highly Availability and Load-Balancing network products, see here. They are...
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Cisco IOS –DHCP/DNS Authoritative Server on Router
I was trying to set up a SOHO router for a small client the other day and was having difficulty getting the DNS server to function the way I wanted on the router. I could...
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Linux — MRTG in Minutes!
MRTG is one of those tools a Network Engineer has on his/her toolbelt. MRTG allows the graphing of trending network activity for a wide range of devices. It uses SNMP to query a host and...
Continue reading...Cisco IOS — Link Aggregation with LACP and NIC Teaming
Hi All!, been awhile since I posted an article and I don’t think I have ever posted one on Network Link Aggregation!! Link Aggregation is the physical combining of network links into one logical link....
Continue reading...Squid Proxy — Splash Page
Hi All! So after my last article regarding securing a guest network web access with Squid and SquidGuard, I wanted to share how I came about creating a Splash Page for Guest users of my...
Continue reading...Squid Proxy — Caching Proxy with SSL with Squid3.1
Hello, hello! Recently I posted a two part article on creating a Guest wireless network using OpenWRT, VLANs, and Firewall rules. Now we left things kinda open from a security standpoint. WE gave our Guest...
Continue reading...Linux — dd Operations Notes
I recently was helping a friend with some computer trouble which resulting in me first creating a full disk Image backup using “dd”. I’ve done this before years ago, but I wanted to add some...
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OpenWRT — Multiple Access Points With 802.1Q (part2)
Welcome back! In the last part, part 1, we configured our OpenWRT device, got it to emit two(2) Access Point SSIDs (insecureWiFi & secureWiFi), created two(2) VLANs to separate traffic frames, and created a trunk...
Continue reading...OpenWRT — Multiple Access Points With 802.1Q (part1)
I set out on this home project with the intent of providing wireless internet to friends and family when visiting. I wanted to provide internet without allowing any malicious clients from consuming all my bandwidth...
Continue reading...Linux — IPTABLES Network Firewall
Most firewalls in the consumer world are ones that are either bought at Bestbuy or supplied by your ISP as an all-in-one type of network device. These devices, such as the Linksys WRT54GL, are good...
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