Network

Cloud Worker

Posted by on July 27, 2010 at 7:47 pm

I am so happy about my new job.  I am a cloud worker.  It’s a relatively new concept, where companies have a pool of resources and instead of using them all at the same time, they only use them when necessary.  The pool is familiar with the company and it’s policies and technologies, and yet [...]

Nested Object Groups

Posted by on May 4, 2010 at 5:32 pm

If you are working on a firewall and find that you need to allow traffic that is destined for more than one interface, you would probably use multiple access list entries.  This is so that you can more easily make changes later on to one group of destinations, without affecting the others.
Well, I don’t know [...]

Automating Network Tasks With Expect

Posted by on August 4, 2009 at 12:32 am

I just got an email about automating some configuration changes, so I figured I would just post about it and send the link.
Basically anything on a network device can be scripted out using Expect as long as it has SSH or Telnet access open to it. There are other ways,such as SNMP set, but I [...]

Cisco storm control again

Posted by on July 30, 2009 at 1:34 am

This document provides an overview of Cisco’s Storm Control including configuration steps and examples as well as implications of using storm control.
 
The purpose of storm control is to prevent a packet storm from over-utilizing the resources of a switch. By default storm control is not configured and must be enabled on a per-interface basis. There [...]

Cisco ASA and Windows Streaming Media

Posted by on July 30, 2009 at 1:32 am

This document provides a short overview of the limitations of Windows Streaming Media Services when using a Cisco ASA Firewall.
 
Protocols Used by Windows Media Services 9
Microsoft Windows Media Services 9 uses two protocols to deliver streaming media to client computers: RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) on TCP port 554, and MMS (Microsoft Media Server) on [...]