Cisco Small Business (SG500) Link Aggregation (LAG) With LACP
KB ID 0001277 Problem At work a client was having trouble with a NAS Drive (Buffalo Terastation). It was being used as a backup target and some of the servers were dropping connections. I knew the client had some Catalist 3750’s So I suggested going and creating an Ether Channel to the two NICs in the NAS box, to try and cure the problem. However when I went onsite, I noticed the 3750 didn’t have any spare Gigabit ports...
ASA Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM)
KB ID 0001107 Problem Both the 5506-X (rugged version and wireless), and 5508-X now come with a FirePOWER services module inside them. This can be managed from either ASDM* (with OS and ASDM upgraded to the latest version), and via the FireSIGHT management software/appliance. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links *UPDATE: All ASA ‘Next-Gen’ firewalls can now have their Firepower Service Module managed...
Audi A6 – Luggage Compartment Fuse Box Location
KB ID 0001161 Problem I know it’s not the usual site content, but PNL was born from my dislike of vendor documentation, and crappy documentation is not limited to the world of IT. The 12v power socket in my A6 wasn’t working, this was probably because there was a 1p coin stuck in it that took a lot of fishing out, I assumed the fuse had blown, and put up with it for a while. When I finally got round to sorting it out...
GNS3 Update – Could Not Find a VM Named ‘GNS3 VM’
KB ID 0001160 Problem GNS3 had nagged me the last few times I tried to use it about upgrading, so I downloaded and installed the update and it stopped here; Could not find a VM named ‘GNS3 VM’ is it imported in VMware or Virtualbox I use both VMware Fusion and Virtualbox. But Virtualbox looks after all the VM’s I use in GNS3. Either way I did not know what I was looking for, and the download (and application folder)...
FMC – AMP Malware Inspection
KB ID 0001159 Problem If you take a look in your SourceFire dashboard, and there is no data shown on the malware threat section like so; Solution The message is pretty descriptive, and it’s telling you exactly what you need to do. Now I’m making the assumption that you have added a valid AMP / Malware licence like so; Policies > Access Control > Edit your access control policy > Then Edit the file policy. Add in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...