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.…
"It works similar to access-list in that if you have any SNMP View on certain MIB trees, every other tree is denied inexplicably." :)…
I've gotten a look at a powerpoint with the technical details now. Nothing too earth shattering. More of a natural progression of capabilities and performance. I'm such a geek. The one cool new feature is that they have finally put in a USB console port. Actually…
Looking for a cheap and reliable way of doing packet capture remotely. I found this reference to using PFSense and it looks like a pretty slick idea. I was quite happy with PFSense when I was using it as a firewall so this idea looks like a winner. I'…
I'm mystified as to how Cisco.com can go down worldwide for 2+ hours during business hours and there is virtually nothing in the news about it. I managed to find this reference in the Register. Not surprising as the outage hit the UK in the middle of…
Helped someone figure out a weird problem just now. He would telnet to a router and then telnet back out to a host. He would then try the ctrl-shift-6, x sequence and he would get nothing on the screen. He could type disconnect 1 and get no feedback but as…
Comcast managed to hose up my internet connection which I host this site as well as some forums on. They did this by assigning my static IP's to another location in their network. The result was split routes at their peering routers with the majority of traffic going…
I didn't see much in the way of review info on the NORCO RPC-450 4U Rackmount Server Case . On top of that, the pics almost always showed a microATX motherboard installed, which was nice for having lots of room left. However, I had an Extended ATX or EEB…