How Do I Find/Change My IP Address?
KB ID 0000208 What’s an IP address? An IP address is the address used on a network to find your PC, Server, Laptop, or Printer etc. It’s the networking equivalent of your house number and post code (or Zip Code for visitors from over the pond). Do you want your PUBLIC or PRIVATE IP address? As we started to run out of addresses, there were a number of solutions that we came up with, one you will see below (DHCP) the other...
Enable The “Remote Registry Service” through Group Policy
KB ID 0000488 Problem I was rolling out Trend Worry Free Business Security this week, and to send out the client software all the client machines needed the remote registry service enabled. That’s great but it’s set to manual startup be default. As I didn’t want to visit each machine I wanted to do this through group policy. Solution 1. On a domain controller, Start > administrative tools > Group Policy Editor...
Cisco IOS – Configuring Switch to Switch MACSEC
KB ID 0001000 Problem My colleague had to set this up on the test bench today, and it looked infinitely more interesting that what I was doing, so I grabbed my console cable, and offered to ‘help’. This was done on two Cisco Catalyst 3560-X switches, each with a 10G Service Module (C3KX-SM-10G), and 1Gb SFP modules (Note: Not 10Gb ones, this will become important later). Solution 1. First hurdle was, when we tried to add...
Sync Microsoft Domain Time To A Cisco NTP Device
KB ID 0001038 Problem I’ve been posting domain time articles for a long time, and on more than one occasion I’ve really needed to take my Windows time from a Cisco Device and failed miserably. I’ve even used third party NTP software to solve this problem on my own test network. On a client network, my colleague deployed ACS5 this week, I secured the ASA5585-X for AAA and it failed authentication. Logging revealed a...