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Inside Greg’s Brain

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    List Stored Procedures From Query Analyzer in SQL 2000

    I know not too many of you will need this, but I’ll have to look this back up at some point 😉 USE databasename SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT ROUTINE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE = 'PROCEDURE' AND OBJECTPROPERTY ( OBJECT_ID(ROUTINE_NAME), 'IsMsShipped' ) = 0 ORDER BY ROUTINE_NAME

  • Layer 2 Security – Protect You and Your Users From Attack
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    Layer 2 Security – Protect You and Your Users From Attack

    Before your access lists or firewall rules comes layer 2(L2). This is the Data link layer where your MAC addressing lives. Why do we need to protect L2…? Man in the middle attacks happen via L2 Rogue DHCP on a single segment DHCP server starvation attack ARP attacks against your switches Lets hit these guys…

  • Mikrotik RB750G Testing
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    Mikrotik RB750G Testing

    This is the new gig version of the RB750. The upgraded model has 5 gig ports and a 680Mhz processor. Lets first take a look at this guy. You can see that the new, bigger, proc has a heatsink. Orientation of the RAM moved Some additional SMDs on the bottom. In the product lineup it…

  • Class Video – Mikrotik Security
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    Class Video – Mikrotik Security

    This class video includes some best practices along with firewalling. This class is about 50 minutes long and you will be a genius and beloved by all by the end. Slides can be found here: *****Here’s a Border Router Firewall Script that is a great start.***** As always, questions and comments are very welcome! Thanks…

  • I’m The Skinniest Engineer
  • Mikrotik Newsletter 22

    Here is the letter in PDF format. They talk about the: 750G and the 800, which I’ve already posted. Foreign MUMs…videos should be up soon. Spectrum analyzer, which we have spoken about. There is a new command that allows you to kill jobs other admins have left running: /System script job print /System script job…

  • Cisco Callmanager External Phone Numeber Masking
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    Cisco Callmanager External Phone Numeber Masking

    The external phone number mask is a method to present whatever caller id (CID) info you want to the outside world. As in, when I call you from my Cisco phone my number shows up as 555-5555, because my phone number mask is set to 555-5555. There are multiple places you can affect the number…