Default settings are the worst. Every systems has them, and they’re great until they’re not. For whatever reasons in the past, my predecessors decided to purchase a bunch of bare-bones HP servers and install Check Point’s firewall software on them. The HP servers were…
Over the past few years of my Juniper SRX adventures, I’ve run into a few cases where the Routing Engine (RE) CPU is pegged at 100%. From what I’ve seen so far, this is typically one of three causes: high traffic (spike in IPS inspection), logging…
I ran into an interesting issue recently, which was caused by use of the switchport protected command…. So I use a pair of Cisco 2960-8TC-L switches at home, for both my home network and lab. A few months back I ran a bunch of ethernet cabling within my house,…
“The network is slow” – Sound like something you’ve heard before? What does ‘slow’ mean anyway? And is it different from yesterday? Sometimes tracking down network ‘slowness’ can be pretty difficult, especially when you don’t have a good baseline of…
Last year we began migrating from our old Juniper SSG firewalls to the new SRX line. After a few months, I’ve honestly really started to enjoy working with them – so much that we’ve decided to start standardizing our firewall platforms by ditching everything else. So…