Understanding WPA3: The Future of Wi-Fi Security
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– Disclaimer: This post was written with the help of AI! Understanding WPA3: The Future of Wi-Fi Security In the ever-evolving landscape of wireless networking, security remains a top priority. Enter WPA3, the latest Wi-Fi security protocol designed to address vulnerabilities in its predecessor, WPA2, and provide stronger protection for wireless networks.
Cisco SD-WAN Part 1
Cisco SD-WAN Part 1
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– I will be using this series of posts as an aide for teaching myself about Cisco SD-WAN. These posts are not meant to be used as a tutorial or any kind of learning guide for others and therefore may not follow logical steps or may be missing crucial information!
Configuring Flexible NetFlow on a Cisco Device
Configuring Flexible NetFlow on a Cisco Device
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– Flexible NetFlow is as the name states, a more flexible version of NetFlow. Flexible NetFlow gives us more granular control over the traffic flows that we want to see and what information we want to pull out of those flows.
Configuring NetFlow With Solarwinds Network Traffic Analyzer
Configuring NetFlow With Solarwinds Network Traffic Analyzer
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– NetFlow is used to collect information about traffic flows in your environment, this information is exported to a NetFlow analyzer which converts the raw data into human readable formats such as graphs, charts and tables.
Configuring Traditional NetFlow on a Cisco Device
Configuring Traditional NetFlow on a Cisco Device
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– NetFlow is used to collect information about traffic flows in your environment, this information can be exported to a NetFlow analyzer which converts the raw data into human readable formats such as graphs, charts and tables.
Cisco WGB Bridging Table Issue
Cisco WGB Bridging Table Issue
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– The Issue I had an issue on a recent project where I had a WGB-client directly connected to Gi0 on a Cisco IW3702 WGB that I wanted to be in VLAN200 so I configured the workgroup-bridge client-vlan 200 command, therefore the MAC address for this WGB-client should be in bridge-group 200 (BG200).
Cisco WGB Debugging Data Rates
Cisco WGB Debugging Data Rates
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– debug dot11 <radio_interface> trace print rates is a pretty cool command you can use to show debugging information related to the dynamic changing of WIFI MCS rates. Below is an output from one of my lab APs while running this debug, the drop to M6 and M7 data rates is when I put a metal pot over the top of one of the APs!
Cisco WGB Debugging Uplink
Cisco WGB Debugging Uplink
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– The debug dot11 <radio_interface> trace print uplink command can be used to see detailed information on what the radio interface is doing while looking for a parent. The below shows the output from a WGB client AP when it lost its parent AP.
Cisco WGB Multiple VLAN Configuration
Cisco WGB Multiple VLAN Configuration
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– These Cisco WGB configurations enable support for WGB-clients in different VLANs. In this deployment I have two VLANs: VLAN100 is for device management such as the AP BVI interfaces.
Podman Checkpointing
Podman Checkpointing
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– What is Checkpointing? Checkpointing stops the container and freezes it in the current running state that can be restored at a later point in time. Checkpointing currently only works with rootful containers.
Podman Networking
Podman Networking
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– Podman Network Types There are three main networking types in Podman: bridge, macvlan, and slirp4netns. bridge The bridge network type is the default. Containers can initiate communications to hosts outside of the host system, i.
Podman Basics
Podman Basics
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– Installing Podman If you need to install Podman from scratch see https://podman.io/getting-started/installation. My host system is running Alma Linux with podman, cockpit and cockpit-podman pre-installed, you can enable Podman directly from the Cockpit webGUI in the “Podman containers” menu.
eBGP Multihop Explained
eBGP Multihop Explained
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– Summary The bgp neighbour X.X.X.X ebgp-multihop <value> command is used to set the multihop value eBGP messages are sent with a TTL of 1 by default The show ip bgp neighbors | i External command is used to check the ebgp-multihop configuration The multihop requirement does not affect iBGP peerings eBGP Multihop By default when configuring an eBGP neighbour, BGP expects the neighbours IP address to be less than 1 network hop away, or in other words, have a TTL of 1.

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