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First look at Exchange 2010 Beta1 High Availability using DAG

Lab config :

  • 1 x Windows 2008 server Standard Edition, 64bit : DC + HUB/CAS Server role : dionysus โ€“ 192.168.0.21
  • 2 x Windows 2008 servers Enterprise Edition, 64bit : Mailbox server roles : exch2010mb1 (192.168.0.22) and exch2010mb2 (192.168.0.23)
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Juniper ScreenOS : default route manipulations and redistributions

The default route or โ€œroute of last resortโ€ is an important route in most present inter-network connectivity configurations. It contains all public and private routes possible and is responsible for directing traffic to a next hop when no better Read more

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Free tool : Windows 2003/2008 Certificate Authority Certificate List Utility for pending requests and about-to-expire certificates

In one of my earlier posts, I have talked about setting up a Windows 2008 based Certificate Authority/PKI. Once your Windows 2008 CA setup is in place and configured, you can go ahead and starting issuing certificates. But Read more

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Juniper ScreenOS : defeating iBGP full mesh requirement using route reflectors and confederations

As explained in one of my earlier posts, one of the requirements to successfully setup and operate an iBGP configuration is that all iBGP clients need to have a BGP connection to all other iBGP clients. (= full Read more

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Juniper : Netscreen/ScreenOS to HTML (ns2html) + audit your firewall config (nipper)

A short while ago, I came across 2 really nice tools that will help

– visualizing screenos configs into html pages

– auditing firewall configs

 

Converting screenos to html

The first tool, called ns2html, was developed by Rodrigo Read more

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Cheatsheet : Cracking WPA2 PSK with Backtrack 4, aircrack-ng and John The Ripper

Basic steps :

  • Put interface in monitor mode
  • Find wireless network (protected with WPA2 and a Pre Shared Key)
  • Capture all packets
  • Wait until you see a client and deauthenticate the client, so the handshake can be captured
  • Crack Read more
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Cheatsheet : Cracking WEP with Backtrack 4 and aircrack-ng

I know, there a probably already a zillion number of websites that show how to crack WEP.

So I guess this will be website zillion+1 learning how to audit your own WEP security. To be honest, the main reason Read more

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Juniper Screenos : Redundant multi-exitpoint ISP routing failover using multiple vrouters, multiple OSPF areas and eBGP

Introduction

As you most likely already know, Juniper screenOS supports a couple of dynamic routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, RIP).  These protocols can be used to build very powerful and redundant networks,  however there are some screenos specific issues with Read more

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Nessus/OpenVAS wrapper for ike-scan

ike-scan is a great tool to audit VPN/IPSec implementations.ย  This tool, which runs under Lunix, Unix, MacOS and Windows, can be found at www.nta-monitor.com/tools/ike-scan/ (Latest version at time of writing is 1.9). My Nessus ike-scan NASL wrapper may Read more

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Monitoring your network with Powershell

I have written a small powershell script that will help you to monitor various hosts on your network.   Instead of using ping to see if a host is alive, this script will connect to tcp ports, so you can Read more

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