IPv6 Stateful Active/Standby Failover with Cisco ASAs

Posted on 2011-01-28 by Guy Edwards

There was some debate on the Cisco ASA failover situation with regard to IPv6. Since we’re potentially about to make a interim firewall purchase for the main university IPv6 traffic (we route IPv6 separately to IPv4 to avoid a limitation … Continue reading →

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Changes in the core

Posted on 2010-03-08 by Guy Morrell

On Tuesday 2nd March we made two significant changes in the Core. Both are inline with current Cisco best practice are have been implemented as part of our Backbone ‘feature update’ project. VTP We have moved to using VLAN Trunking … Continue reading →

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Wireless – what could possibly go wrong?!

Posted on 2010-02-01 by Oliver Gorwits

I love this slide from a Troubleshooting Wireless Networks talk I attended last week. It says a lot about how difficult it is to tackle trouble tickets of the “client can’t connect to network” variety.

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Cisco firewall SMTP “fixup” considered harmful

Posted on 2009-11-26 by Oliver Gorwits

This issue is old and familiar to us, and crops up about once every six months or so. I thought it might help to document the situation more publicly. On Cisco firewalls (PIX or the newer ASA), various protocol inspection … Continue reading →

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Connecting to JANET

Posted on 2009-10-06 by Oliver Gorwits

Sorry it’s been a little while since our last post. We’re just coming to the end of the summer vacation, the point when we (and most other IT support staff around the university) get things ship-shape in time for the … Continue reading →

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