Recent content by Boscoh

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    SSL VPN

    Narrow it down to Juniper and Cisco. Contact account teams from both companies and request a demo box to play with. We used Juniper (Netscreen/Neoteris) where I worked before joining Cisco and it was great. 3 years ago, Juniper owned Cisco on SSL VPN...now they don't. ASA 8.0 has very easy to...
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    WOW! New CCNP/CCDP tests are very hard

    I finished up taking all the new CCNP/CCDP tests at the end of January. I'm in the Associate Systems Engineer training program at Cisco and they mandated that we all take the new exams. I'd never taken the old ones, so I had nothing to benchmark them against. I took the BSCI/BCMSN composite exam...
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    PIX Question

    What version are you running on the PIX?
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    blogs for project management?

    Wordpress is an awesome blogging tool. You could also use something like vBulletin, phpBB, or YaBB bulletin boards for this. Bulletin boards would probably work better if you're expecting heavy feedback for each post.
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    Network Infrastructure Recommendations

    I'd have them get their own internet connection. What you're wanting to do is technically possible, with the ability to reasonably secure your own network from threats. However, the liability you create (as illustrated above), and the steps you'd need to take to make sure they don't use all your...
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    Cisco ASA 5500 Series Appliances

    The last version I played with in a production network was 7.2 on a 5510 at my last job. It was very, very stable. We replaced a 515 with it. The initial release, 7.0, was incredibly buggy. The bugs were fixed rather quickly though. I have only played with them in the lab since then. Stateful...
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    Does this mean Cisco will be its own ISP?

    Given how much time we've spent building our partner model, and given that service providers are a MASSIVE part of that model, I would be very very surprised if Cisco ended up trying to form it's own service provider. It doesn't make business sense. I'm with cmetz...looks like a defensive...
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    Tracing message board posts...

    It doesn't look like he's using cross-site scripting...at least in his posts. He may be using it in a PM. However, it looks to me like what he's doing is PM'ing someone to click a link to some sort of external page. Could possibly be a map that dynamically loads a map based on the IP address of...
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    Questions about routers and firewalls

    Since you're just learning, you might as well learn correctly. Routers dont do anything but route traffic. They don't block anything. "Network Address Translation" and "Port Address Translation" (NAT/PAT) are features on routers that allow you to have multiple computers on your home or...
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    Get around a firewall

    If you just need to fill out a bit of paperwork, go do that. Once you get it done, go research how to get around proxies. Like someone else mentioned, theres a thread on this a little ways down the page. While you may have completely noble intentions, others who read this forum may not. Also...
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    Access-list question

    In all the IOS versions I've used, you cant use the "access-list <name> line <#>" command to insert an entry into an ACL. You have to remove and rewrite the entire ACL. This is a function that should be implemented in IOS...but it's not in all the versions I've used.
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    Is there a "best" server brand?

    Also, make sure you stay up on your licensing from the very beginning. I was put in a situation at my last job of going through all the old software and bringing us up to date licenses for 200 employees. It was a giant PITA. It also has the perception of being cheaper to keep your licenses up to...
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    Is there a "best" server brand?

    The IBM servers have a good reputation with people I know. The HP's do too, though. At my previous job, we used Dell servers. The servers were good, but the support sucked.
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    IDS - Snort for commercial purposes?

    Yeah it works pretty well.
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    Can't seem to find a decent wireless router

    FWIW, I've always had good luck with ZyXel wireless routers. I've got a ZyXel Prestige 334W and it works great. I've never had a problem with it. Just offering this up in case you start looking at another brand.