Oct
01
2010
You are experiencing extremely slow response times, bandwidth is flat-lining or unusually high, or download speeds are close to 0? Here you will find how to troubleshoot and monitor traffic going through a Cisco ASA or PIX firewall with the command line. Access Lists Statistics You’ve most likely configured some access lists to filter […]
Tags: ASA, Cisco, monitor, pix
Aug
16
2010
We use Fortinet VPN client Forticlient to connect to our Fortigate firewall with IPSEC encryption. We’d like to give clients a DHCP address so we do not have anything to manage other than user authentication. Dialup VPN client do not seem to get an IP address although a DHCP pool is created and “DHCP-IPsec” is […]
Tags: DHCP, Fortigate, Fortinet, IPSEC, vpn
Dec
14
2009
Dynamips and dynagen let you create a virtual Cisco router on a Linux box. It would be even better if that router was reachable from the LAN, wouldn’t it? Going further, that same router could lead us to another couple of virtual routers running in a lab. Download and Installation Download dynamips and dynagen from […]
Tags: Cisco, debian, linux, router, virtualization
Oct
04
2009
Compilation Error? The Oracle client being installed (11g R2 in my setup), Freeradius doesn’t seem to find Oracle headers. I get the following error message: Error compiling Oracle/Freeradius configure: WARNING: oracle headers not found. Use –with-oracle-home-dir=<path>. configure: WARNING: silently not building rlm_sql_oracle. configure: WARNING: FAILURE: rlm_sql_oracle requires: oci.h. Specifying the path to –with-oracle-home-dir doesn’t […]
Tags: compile, Freeradius, Oracle
May
30
2009
We have seen a few posts on Freeradius user list and other forums asking how to collect accounting periodically. The Radius protocol provides accounting but not in the way that many would like. Here’s a short list of things we would like to modify or improve: Traffic is not collected at regular intervalsAs a result, […]
Tags: Accounting, Cisco, Database, Freeradius, Mysql