iPhone VPN and Cisco IOS, Part2

I previously posted about some luck I had getting IPSEC VPN to work from my iPhone to my IOS router/firewall.  That post is now kind of useless because the source blog disappeared about a year ago.  So, in order to make this useful again I'm posting my…

iPad...Nuff said

Yup...did it.  In fact I'm typing this on the new iPad specific wordpress app and I love it!!!  The keyboard in landscape mode is very nice and I can type very quickly. I think it might drive some bad habits with all of the autocorrection and not…

Cisco AnyConnect Essentials still crushing it

Seems my original post about the AnyConnect Essentials license is still quite popular.  So why not capitalize on that!  :) The license does work as advertised.  It's a replacement for the IPSEC based client that Cisco seems to have stopped development on.  I've been using it in…

Breadboard Arduino with FTDI cable and no reset button

So, here' my coming out for the other project I've been working on lately.  Learning about Arduino's.  More later about why I'm doing this but for now... I got a regular Duemilanove from Adafruit a couple of weeks ago.  These things are so…

Checkpoint doesn't support Proxy-Arp???

Say whaaaatttt????????  Ok, so you have a Checkpoint firewall with a whole lotta NATed addresses.  The router won't find these NATed addresses though unless you go through a painful procedure to enable proxy-arp on the Checkpoint or you have to add static host entries to the router pointing…

HP TC1100 and the iPad

I've had a TC1100 for a while now. I just decided to get a new battery since the old one wouldn't hold any charge.   So as I sit here using it with Win7 it occurs to we that this is pretty much the exact same size…

Fixing a weird Cisco syntax error

Ran across this tonight.  Someone had entered a prefix-list with the name "at& ;t" instead of "at&t" (wordpress didn't like it either so I added the space between the p and the ; but they should really be together. Oddly enough, IOS…

Cisco IPS doesn't like ICMP redirects

I've been trying to figure out why a pair of Cisco IPS (AIP-SSM in this case) wouldn't auto-update signature files or connect to the new Global Correlation feature.  The management interfaces were located on a subnet that was between the firewall and the internal L3 switch.…