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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.  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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Juniper : Netscreen Remote Dial-UP VPN with AD Radius Authentication and route based VPN / tunnel interface

The following procedure explains how to set up a Juniper ScreenOS based firewall to accept Netscreen Remote Client VPN connections and authenticate users using Active Directory (Radius via Windows 2003 IAS or Windows 2008 NPS). 

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Exchange 2007 : Powershell script to select optimal database for a new mailbox

If you have multiple Storage Groups / Databases on your Exchange 2007 server, you may want to try to spread your mailboxes over all databases.  You could use your “gut feeling” and/or select a database at random, or you Read more

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Windows XP L2TP over IPSec dialup client VPN to a Juniper ScreenOS firewall, using Certificates

Before looking at the various configuration steps, we’ll have to take the following assumptions into account :

- We don’t want to use the Netscreen Remote client, but we want to use the Windows XP built-in dialup VPN technology Read more

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IPSec VPN between Windows Server 2008 and Juniper ScreenOS

In this blog post, I will show you how to set up a IPSec VPN tunnel between a Windows Server and a Juniper ScreenOS based firewall and route traffic between hosts that are located behind these 2 VPN gateways.

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Exchange 2007 : Resource Room Mailboxes

Scenario : You have an AD account domain, that holds user accounts used to log on to the network/Outlook, and you have a dedicated Exchange 2007 resource forest, that holds the Exchange infrastructure, (linked) mailboxes, etc.  Accounts in the Read more

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Juniper ScreenOS Admin authentication using Windows based IAS (Radius)

On popular request, this is a quick write-up on how to set up a Juniper screenOS firewall to use an external Radius server (I’ll use Windows IAS) to authenticate administrators and to let the Radius server to assign admin Read more

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My very best wishes…

The year is almost over, so I guessed this would be the perfect time to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a healthy, successful and splendid New Year.

2008 has been quite busy for me…   I’ve Read more

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