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Prevent IP Access by Routing to Null

The goal of a router is to send network traffic to its destination based on its routing table. Some times its necessary to prevent traffic form flowing through a router. This can typically be achieved with access control lists, but a cost. ACLs, particularly long and complicated ones, come with the cost of performance. When preventing access to an entire subnet it is possible to simply route traffic into a “black hole” where it will be discarded. This is achieved without using an ACL. Continue reading

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Introduction to Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRFs)

If you have listened to anything IT in the past five plus years you have probably heard of and experienced the “virtualization” buzz word. Typically, it’s referencing host or server virtualization as this is the most common and well known. There are, however, other instances where virtualization of sorts can be used to break hardware into isolated network building blocks. Virtual Routing and Forwarding instances (VRFs) on Cisco routing devices are one such example. Continue reading

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Traffic Rate Limiting with Monowall

Recently I was called to implement a system to limit the bandwidth used by our guest network. There was no firewall in place for this network aside from the device provided by the ISP. Needless to say, it was junk and supported none of the more advanced features we needed. I implemented a Monowall with a fairly typical setup and jumped into configuring the traffic shaper. In this article I will only be limiting traffic Continue reading

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Backup Cisco Configurations with SSH on Windows

I have done a brief write-up about backing up Cisco IOS configurations over an SSH connections in the past. Unfortunately, this article was based on expect, a Linux utility. There is, however, a similar but simpler way to accomplish the same thing on windows. Continue reading

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