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View VPN Pre Shared Keys in ASA V8
My boy Brian shows you how to view the PSKs for your VPN groups on your ASAs running 8 code with a single command here.
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Desktop Catapult
So, I saw some homemade catapults a while back and figured I would try my hand at making one. Here’s the prototype. BTW, the video is at the end! Materials: About 2 feet of 1X4. I picked up a 10′ sheet for $1.81. I used pine since this was a prototype, for the real deal,…
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Couple of Good Deals
Everyone knows I’m a fan of CablesandKits, and I happened across this deal from them, so I thought I would share it. This is 1U rack mount APC PDUs for $10 each! I also saw that BalticNetworks is running some good deals on their gear – RB1000 for $595, RB750 for $35. I’ve not ordered…
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Meraki Mesh APs
So I’m sitting here on the porch of our cabin in Leaky (pronounced lakey) Texas. This place is beautiful:fall leaves, quiet, Frio river. With all this beauty, the first thing I naturally do is to boot up my laptop and see if I can get wireless 😉 Indeed I can. The AP is a Meraki.…
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Cisco BGP Troubleshooting
Some times there is nothing better for trouble shooting that a nice process tree. Cisco has a great set of them here. My favorite is “Troubleshoot missing routes”: Always remember that when you check your filters that you are checking your prefix list AND your AS-path filters! Issue the “show ip bgp sum” command to…
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Migrating Vmware Server 1/2 Guests with IDE Hard Drives to ESXI4
First off, I have to say thanks to Justin B, he gave me the quick and dirty on doing the migration…”Try it. The worst that can happen is that it won’t work.” hehehehe. I had some old VMW server 2 guests that were originally built with IDE drives, so migrating to ESXI3.5 was way more…
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Using Mikrotik to Block Bit Torrent
The bane of most ISPs is Peer to Peer traffic(p2p). If you run hotels or apartments, especially apartments full of students, p2p will be your main source of issues. In some cases, extreme measure must be taken. So how does one go about taking back their network? The first thing to do is to find…