Download Cisco VPN Client Software
Nov17

Download Cisco VPN Client Software

KB ID 0001098  Problem The Cisco VPN client software (CVPN-CL-IPSEC-ALL) is no longer available from Cisco. Milestone Definition Date End-of-Llfe Announcement Date The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life of a product is distributed to the general public. July 29, 2011 End-of-Availability Date The last date to download the product from Cisco.com. The product is no longer for download after this date. July...

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Cisco – Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg
Nov17

Cisco – Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg

KB ID 0001099  Problem A friend was rolling out some PC’s for a client and wanted me to give him a network with the same subnet etc so he could build everything on the bench. I grabbed a router and set it up for DHCP, and to NAT all traffic for him, but annoyingly it kept doing this; %Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (timed out) %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILIURE: System config parse from...

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Webmin – Upgrade Error – ‘Perl (Net::SSLeay) is needed’
Nov17

Webmin – Upgrade Error – ‘Perl (Net::SSLeay) is needed’

KB ID 0001100  Problem I like to keep my CentOS server updated as much as I can, but the last couple of times I’ve gone to run the upgrade of the Webmin console, I’ve got this; error: Failed dependencies: perl(Net::SSLeay) is needed by webmin (version) Solution 1. As error messages go this is not a bad one, it obviously needs perl installing. So SSH into the server and execute the following command; yum -y install perl...

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Cisco FireSIGHT – Enable Active Directory (LDAP) Authentication

KB ID 0001102 WARNING this is for older versions of the FirePOWER Management Platform, go to the following link for newer versions Cisco FirePOWER Management Appliance – Allowing Domain Authentication Problem To save you creating multiple users on your FireSIGHT appliance, and assigning roles to them you can utilise your existing Active Directory. In fact FireSIGHT does a good job of enabling granular administration based on AD...

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Cisco ASA 5500-X Restart the FirePOWER Service Module
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500-X Restart the FirePOWER Service Module

KB ID 0001101  Problem I’ve only just recently started to work with these, the advantage of them is they are great for SOHO and SMB, and they don’t need additional SSD drives installing. Note: This also procedure works on the larger ASA5500-X firewalls that have Firepower installed on an internal SSD drive, (i.e. 5512,5515,5525, and 5545 etc.) While getting them to work with a Sourcefire appliance, I had to...

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Cisco ASA – Cannot Enable Third Party Certificate (9.4 and later)
Nov17

Cisco ASA – Cannot Enable Third Party Certificate (9.4 and later)

KB ID 0001106 Problem I installed a third party certificate for a client on their ASA (from Digicert). And followed my usual procedure. I enabled it on the outside interface and tested AnyConnect, it wasn’t working. The ASA refused to present anything other than its self signed certificate. Solution This is because after 9.4 the ASA will automatically present a certificate that has an elliptical curve cipher. Even if the ASA has...

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HP iLO – Password Must Contain 8 to 39 Characters
Sep17

HP iLO – Password Must Contain 8 to 39 Characters

KB ID 0001103 Problem While setting up a new HP storage server, I jumped on the iLO and went to setup a new user and password, only to be greeted with this pop-up. Well I want a seven character password? Not because I’m awkward, but because it’s my iLO password. That and the fact, at three in the morning when the servers go down, I don’t want to be scrabbling about looking for passwords. Solution 1. You need to...

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