Once again I was asked to get involved when a customer had problems with an application. I won’t go into application or problem details here but the process eventually involved capturing traffic on a customer laptop to see what was actually happening. The consultant doing the capture was not using Wireshark as I would have […]
Installing AWS CLI on Cygwin
To get AWS CLI working in Cygwin: Install “python2-pip” with the Cygwin installer (and accept whatever dependencies it brings) Run “pip2 install awscli“ See what you have: “aws –version“, and continue with the usual “aws configure” procedure. Using AWS CLI is not very fast in this setup however. For example, showing specific Virtual Private Gateway […]
How to Fix GoToMeeting or Skype for Business on Second Monitor
[Update on 2018-08-31: The instructions below are probably not useful anymore after several Windows 10 or other software updates. Things look much better nowadays, even though many software still have problems with differing font scaling factors. I still feel sorry for the many developers out there who apparently don’t have sufficient possibilities to test software […]
Junos Default Applications
From Junos 12.1X47-D25.4 on SRX240H2: markku@srx> show configuration groups junos-defaults applications # # File Transfer Protocol # application junos-ftp { application-protocol ftp; protocol tcp; destination-port 21; } # # Trivial File Transfer Protocol # application junos-tftp { application-protocol tftp; protocol udp; destination-port 69; } # # Real Time Streaming Protocol # application junos-rtsp { application-protocol […]
Enabling Python Syntax Coloring and Indenting in Vim
Sending Twitter DMs in Zabbix Actions
When configuring actions in Zabbix for example for problem alerts, there is a built-in method for sending email notifications. Here are the instructions for sending alerts as Twitter direct messages. These instructions are based on a Debian 8 Jessie installation where Zabbix has been installed from the packages in the Zabbix repository. You maybe want […]
majornetwork.net Is Now TLS-Enabled
IPsec VPN Tunnel between F5 BIG-IP and Juniper SRX
This post is an example of configuring an IPsec tunnel with F5 BIG-IP. In the diagram below the IPsec tunnel is configured between SRX210 (Junos 12.1X47-D20.7) and F5 BIG-IP (11.6.0 HF5-ENG11). F5 BIG-IP is connected here in one-arm setup. The SRX240 is not “an interesting device” in this demonstration. It is just a firewall and […]
SoftEther VPN with a VPN Address Pool
For replacing a physical remote access VPN implementation with a VPN server in a virtual machine, one of the options is SoftEther. There is a lot of documentation in the site but somehow I felt the material was hard to absorb. In this post I describe the reference implementation I managed to complete with SoftEther. […]