Windows – How to Join a Wireless Network
KB ID 0000676 Problem You can still right click the networking icon in your task tray and manually join a wireless network, but with the new UI there is a much more user friendly way. Solution 1. Bring up the Settings menu (Press Windows Key+I, or swipe in form the left on a tablet/tablet) > Select the available networks icon. 2. Select the wireless network you want to connect to. 3. If you want to always connect to this network...
GNS3 Cannot Connect Network Interfaces when running on VMware vSphere
KB ID 0000671 Problem I have plenty of real ASA firewalls to play with, but it’s getting round to re-certification time, so for ease I thought I’d run up a Virtual ASA on my vSphere 5 box just for testing and breaking. However no matter what type of Virtual Network adaptor I used (vmxnet3, e1000, etc) I could not connect to the virtual firewall. Solution 1. Firstly make sure you actually have an IP address in the correct...
Cisco Router – Password Recovery /Bypass
KB ID 0000931 Problem If you have a Cisco router that you have forgotten the password for, or have been given one, or simply bought one from ebay, you may not know the password. In fact many years ago an ISP was going to charge me a ridiculas amount of money to put an entry in a routers routing table, this procedure ‘ahem’ would have allowed to to do it myself, for free, and then reload the router. Solution The reason you...
Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN’sSite to Site ISAKMP VPN (Main Mode)
KB ID 0000213 Problem As with most things, before you have a hope of fixing something, you will stand a better chance if you know how it works in the first place. Below is a quick run though of what’s happening with your site to site VPN’s and how they work. For the entire process we will have two Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and a site to site VPN. Solution What’s an Initiator and a Responder? 1. Our Laptop 192.168.1.50...
Cisco – Cracking and Decrypting Passwords (Type 7 and Type 5)
KB ID 0000940 Problem Decrypt Type 7 Cisco Passwords The Internet is full of sites that have something like the tool below, tap your ‘encrypted’ password in and it will reveal the Cisco password. Input Type 7 Obfuscated Password: Output Plain Text Password: As you can see I’ve specifically written ‘obfuscated’ above, because the password isn’t actually encrypted at all. All that happens is the...