Networking – Page 2

AWS VPC VPN, dual tunnel with Fortigate firewall

By mike April 15, 2016 March 28, 2017 0 Networking, Security, Technology AWS, Fortigate, Security

How to run 2 VPN tunnels between Fortigate firewall and AWS VPC VPN using static routing or BGP.

Cloudflare rocks

By mike February 26, 2015 February 26, 2015 0 Networking, Software Security, SSL

tl;dr: Cloudflare rocks

Twin Cities vBeers November 20th, 2013

By mike November 9, 2013 0 Networking, Random vBeers

Twin Cities vBeers – an event that should not be missed!

Set up a VMware vSwitch – the vMA way

By mike September 2, 2013 0 Networking, Software, Virtualware virtualization, VMware, vSphere

Straight forward scripting to add port groups to an existing vSwitch including setting VLAN assignments and adding vmkernel ports. This makes for an easy transition to Virtual Distributed Switch from VMware using the vSphere client (or new web interface).

VXLAN and Juniper – the quick and dirty way

By mike April 22, 2013 0 Hardware, Networking, Software Juniper, VMware, VXLAN

I made the VXLAN submit to my Juniper whims. I hope this is helpful to others doing a quick and dirty deployment like I was working on.

Denial of service attacks suck

By mike July 13, 2012 0 Networking Bandwidth, ipHouse

I said it, you read it, hope you aren’t offended. Short summary from my point of view dealing with our denial of service issue this evening.

How do our servers connect?

By mike April 30, 2012 August 18, 2013 0 Networking, Techie, Virtualware FreeBSD, ipHouse, MySQL, Postfix, Ubuntu, virtualization

This morning we had an outage and while I did what I could to describe it via text, I can’t seem to come to grips with three unrelated issues occurring together creating so many pages. Why? Our network is segmented/separated by multiple physical segments and these unrelated incidents should not affect the other. This graphic representation isn’t necessarily 100% accurate […]