If your like most home/office network tweakers looking for every bit of performance you can squeeze out of your home network. For $49 the small, yet powerful Ubiquiti ER-X is a great value offering gigabit ports, PoE, small form factor and VPN functionality. As with any router the manufacturers release software updates periodically that offer fixes, security patches and added
Read MoreRecently I was given a Cisco ASA 5508-X Firepower Threat Defense appliance to deploy. While these are the same hardware platform as the tried-true Cisco ASA 5508 firewalls, these run Cisco’s new ‘unified’ SourceFire linux based operating system (asa-ftd), which is essentially an operating system combining the SourceFire FirePower functionality with Cisco’s conventional firewalling capabilities. It’s Cisco’s new direction for
Read MoreR1Soft error will resemble something like – “Failed to backup LVM/MD Configuration” with running LVM based commands from R1Soft. Usually due to an upstream vendor or repo update of the LVM binary that conflicts with the R1soft native configuration “lvm.static” command.
Read MoreWindows 10 build 1803 April 2018 update now includes by default openSSH for Windows – no more WSL, emulation or other work arounds – a full blown fully integrated SSH client in Windows. The executables are stored in C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH and also include scp.exe and sftp.exe. A great way of making this even more functional for daily use is creating what
Read MoreProblem On a Cisco ASA you can specify which interface to launch a ‘ping’ from, but that’s it. However sometimes in troubleshooting you may find yourself with access to all remote assets to triangulate issues full or to properly initiate ‘interesting traffic. We can use TCP PING in an interactive manner with a variety of parameters. Note: You need ASA
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