Lastline SSH Key-Based Authentication for “monitoring” User
If you are using a Lastline device (Manager, Engine, Sensor or Pinbox) you can reach the machine via SSH after you activated it via monitoring_user_password . However, per default this uses only a...
View ArticleWireshark Layer 2-3 pcap Analysis w/ Challenges (CCNP SWITCH)
While preparing for my CCNP SWITCH exam I built a laboratory with 4 switches, 3 routers and 2 workstations in order to test almost all layer 2/3 protocols that are related to network management...
View ArticleIdea: On-the-Fly TLSA Record Spoofing
It is quite common that organizations use some kind of TLS decryption to have a look at the client traffic in order to protect against malware or evasion. (Some synonyms are SSL/TLS interception,...
View ArticleCCNP SWITCH Lab show commands
Second post of this little series. While I was using my CCNP SWITCH lab for testing many different protocols, I “showed” and saved the output of those protocols as well. Refer to the lab overview of my...
View ArticleBasic Cisco Configuration
Following is a list of the most common Cisco device configuration commands that I am using when setting up a router or switch from scratch, such as hostname, username, logging, vty access, ntp, snmp,...
View ArticleWireshark Layer 2-3 pcap Challenge Answers
A few weeks ago I published a pcap file along with many challenges in order to invite anyone to download and to solve it. Though there are not that many answers posted in the comment section I hope...
View ArticlePalo Alto LLDP Neighbors
I just configured LLDP, the Link Layer Discovery Protocol, on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. What I really like about those firewalls is the completeness of configuration capabilities while the...
View ArticlePalo Alto Aggregate Interface w/ LACP
Since PAN-OS version 6.1 the Palo Alto Networks firewall supports LACP, the Link Aggregation Control Protocol which bundles physical links to a logical channel. Palo Alto calls it “Aggregate Interface...
View ArticlePalo vs. Forti: Blog Stats
I want to talk about a fun fact concerning my blog statistics: Since a few years I have some “CLI troubleshooting commands” posts on my blog – one for the Palo Alto Networks firewall and another for...
View ArticleADS-B Empfangsbereich mit dem FlightAware Pro Stick erweitern
Es war mal wieder Zeit für ein bisschen Bastelarbeit an meinem Dauerprojekt ADS-B. Letztes Jahr hatte ich zunächst eine DIY-Antenne und schließlich eine bei eBay gekaufte Antenne für den Empfang der...
View ArticleADS-B am Raspberry Pi: dump1090-mutability
Bereits seit einigen Jahren setze ich einen DVB-T Stick zum Empfang von ADS-B Daten an einem Raspberry Pi ein. Damals habe ich erklärt, wie man die Linux Software dump1090 dafür verwendet. Der seit dem...
View ArticleDump1090 ADS-B Stats
Genau das Richtige für mich: Viele Statistiken bzgl. des ADS-B Empfangs. Konkret laufen diese dump1090-tools lokal auf dem Raspberry Pi und werten das Log von dump1090-mutability aus. (Siehe meinem...
View ArticleJuniper ScreenOS Initial Cleanup Config
I still like the Juniper ScreenOS firewalls such as the SSG 5 or the SSG 140. However, they are End of Everything (EoE) and not used at the customers anymore. But they still do their job in basic...
View ArticleJuniper ScreenOS VPN Speedtests
Just for fun some more VPN throughput tests, this time for the late Juniper ScreenOS firewalls. I did the same Iperf TCP tests as in my labs for Fortinet and Palo Alto, while I was using six different...
View ArticleJuniper ScreenOS IPv4 vs. IPv6 Throughput Tests
And finally the throughput comparison of IPv6 and legacy IP on a Juniper ScreenOS firewall. Nobody needs this anymore since they are all gone. ;) But since I did the same speedtests for Palo Alto and...
View ArticleInternetanschlusswechsel innerhalb der Telekom: Ein Albtraum
Anstelle von technischen Details heute mal ein Erfahrungsbericht. Vielleicht sollte ich eher sagen: ein Odysseebericht. Für einen meiner Kunden habe ich den Business-Internetanschluss umgezogen....
View ArticlePAN NGFW IPv6 NDP RA RDNSS & DNSSL
Haha, do you like acronyms as much as I do? This article is about the feature from Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewall for Internet Protocol version 6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol Router...
View ArticlePalo Alto NDP Monitoring
With PAN-OS version 8.0 Palo Alto Networks introduced another IPv6 feature, namely “NDP Monitoring for Fast Device Location“. It basically adds a few information to the existing neighbor cache such as...
View ArticleIPv6 IPsec VPN Tunnel Palo Alto FortiGate
Towards the global IPv6-only strategy ;) VPN tunnels will be used over IPv6, too. I configured a static IPsec site-to-site VPN between a Palo Alto Networks and a Fortinet FortiGate firewall via IPv6...
View ArticleIKEv2 IPsec VPN Tunnel Palo Alto FortiGate
And one more IPsec VPN post, again between the Palo Alto Networks firewall and a Fortinet FortiGate, again over IPv6 but this time with IKEv2. It was no problem at all to change from IKEv1 to IKEv2 for...
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