Using Microsoft Active Directory as the Authentication server for an SSL VPN on a Cisco ASA.

Posted on 2012-07-06 by Guy Morrell

Background We wanted to be able to run an SSL VPN for a second team (Team B) on one of our ASA pairs. It was important to give each team a different VPN pool for security reasons. The first team … Continue reading →

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ASA 5505 Transparent Mode DHCP and Memory fun

Posted on 2012-03-29 by Guy Morrell

We have a customer who uses a Cisco ASA 5505 in transparent mode to protect a small LAN. They did the right thing and took out SmartNet cover, but the reseller botched something and the TAC wouldn’t play with them … Continue reading →

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VPN NAT Changes

Posted on 2012-01-09 by Guy Morrell

What is this post about? We are planning to make a minor change to the way our VPNs NAT clients. For those who are interested, this blog post explains why and how we are doing this. Please note that these … Continue reading →

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How to generate graphs with gnuplot

Posted on 2011-09-02 by Guy Morrell

Introduction During the JANET Carrrier Ethernet Trial we we took part in, I needed to plot some data based on our testing and came across gnuplot. It is actually quite simple to use and we’re doing so more and more … Continue reading →

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OUCS Backbone Network Naming and Numbering Conventions

Posted on 2011-08-15 by Guy Morrell

Introduction This blog post is intended to help ITSS in Oxford to better understand how the centrally provided network fits together with their own local networks. It is also hoped it will assist them in assessing the impact of any … Continue reading →

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Budget High Availability ASA testing

Posted on 2011-05-24 by Guy Morrell

The problem We’re looking at setting up a management network behind a couple of ASAs. My requirements and prerequisites are: No L2 end to end VLANs through the core. That is bad and wrong. A total site failure at one … Continue reading →

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MAC Flaps – why are they bad?

Posted on 2011-02-04 by Guy Morrell

What is a MAC Flap? A MAC Flap is caused when a switch receives packets from two different interfaces with the same source MAC address. If this makes no sense, perhaps a  quick summary of how switching at layer 2 … 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 Application Firewall

Posted on 2009-08-26 by Guy Morrell

In order to prevent ‘Location Independent Network’ abuse resulting in C&D orders landing on the desks of ITSS, we’ve recently added an Allot Netenforcer to the backend of eduroam and OWL. It will be configured to block P2P traffic and … Continue reading →

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