Windows 10 – Installing IIS
Feb13

Windows 10 – Installing IIS

KB ID 0001158  Problem I needed to get a web server up and running today, so I could upload some files into a firewall via http. I have a copy of Windows 10 running on my mac in VMware fusion, so that’s what I thought I would use. Solution Open a command window and run appwiz.cpl > Turn Windows features on or off > Internet Information Services > OK > Follow the instructions. Now to test,  open a browser window and...

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Mac OSX and Linux – Quick and Dirty Web Server
Feb10

Mac OSX and Linux – Quick and Dirty Web Server

KB ID 0001157  Problem I was clearing out some old emails yesterday, and saw one my colleague Steve had sent me. It was info on how to fire up a quick web server on your mac. It wasn’t until I took a look at it, I realised how handy it was. After some reading, I found that it was not only possible on a mac, but on other flavours of Linux as well, (as long as they support ‘python’ and have it loaded). WHAT USE IS...

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AnyConnect Group Authentication With Cisco ISE and Downloadable ACLs (Part 2)
Feb09

AnyConnect Group Authentication With Cisco ISE and Downloadable ACLs (Part 2)

KB ID 0001156  Problem Carrying on from PART 1 Solution Add  > Create Before. Edit the Policy Giv the policy set a name and description > Create a new condition. Set Description to Device Type. Equals > All Device Types (The Device Group You Created Above). Add attribute value. Set Description to RADIUS. NAS-Port-Type-[61]. Equals  > Virtual. Edit the Authentication Policy. Change the identity source to the the identity...

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AnyConnect Group Authentication With Cisco ISE and Downloadable ACLs (Part 1)

KB ID 0001155 Problem To be honest it’s probably a LOT easier to do this with Dynamic Access Policies, but hey, if you have ISE then why not use it for RADIUS, and let it deploy downloadable ACL’s to your remote clients and give them different levels of access, based on their group membership. I’m going to keep things simple, I will have a group for admins that can access anything, and a group for users that can only...

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NTP Stratum 1 and Stratum 2 UK Time Servers
Feb07

NTP Stratum 1 and Stratum 2 UK Time Servers

KB ID 0001154  Problem There are a LOT of NTP servers lists published. I’ve sat and checked all the servers below, and their DNS resolution, and they are correct as at the date above. Solution Stratum 1 Hostname IP Address Resolvable By Location chronos.csr.net 194.35.252.7 DNS Cambridge Stratum 2 Hostname IP Address Resolvable By Location 0.uk.pool.ntp.org 109.74.206.120 176.58.109.199 94.125.129.7 5.77.45.219 DNS Various...

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