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Hardware or Software RAID?

War Stories

The question is usually framed as Is Hardware RAID better than software RAID? Well actually it's ...

Updated 7 months ago by david

Five Apes In A Cage

War Stories

Put five apes in a cage. In the middle of a cage is a set of steps, and at the top of the steps i...

Updated 7 months ago by david

Email Inbox Management, 2011

War Stories

(10 October 2011) Interesting results from an IBM study comparing the effectiveness of folder-fil...

Updated 7 months ago by david

Email Inbox Management, 2008

War Stories

(29 January 2008) I watched the Google Talk video about the Inbox Zero concept. It is long (about...

Updated 7 months ago by david

Greylisting's Effect

War Stories

(19 March 2012) Last year when I rebuilt my server I had the opportunity to see specifically what...

Updated 7 months ago by david

IPsec MTU Adjustments

FortiOS v7.0.x

MTU can be adjusted via three ways: Adjusting the MTU of the physical interface where the IPsec...

Updated 8 months ago by david

Packet Tracer

Cisco ASA 9.14

(2025-01-13) General: packet-tracer input ifc_name [ vlan-id vlan_id ] icmp [ inline-tag tag ] { ...

Updated 10 months ago by david

Ping ASA interface

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2024-09-18) Problem: Can't ping my ASA. Design: With Cisco ASA, it is impossible to ping any int...

Updated 10 months ago by david

SNMP v3 Read-Only setup

Cisco IOS-XE 03.16

(2024-09-05) Example ip access-list standard snmp-access permit 10.11.12.13 snmp-server view snmp...

Updated 10 months ago by david

SNMP v3 on ASA

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2024-09-03) Problem SNMP on ASA please Solution snmp-server group GlobalRead v3 priv snmp-server...

Updated 10 months ago by david

Use User's Password As Enable Password

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2020-12-17) Problem I want to use my username password as the enable password in ssh sessions So...

Updated 10 months ago by david

TLS DH Group Key Length

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2020-01-20) Problem Something like SSL/TLS: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Insufficient DH Group St...

Updated 10 months ago by david

Test Authentication Server

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2020-03-18) Problem Is my Radius (or LDAP) server working? Solution # show run | begin aaa-serve...

Updated 10 months ago by david

SSH pubkey authentication

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2020-09-25) Problem How to set up an ASA to accept an ssh pubkey? Solution Create a ssh key as n...

Updated 10 months ago by david

Security Commands

Cisco ASA 9.8

(2019-01-20) Problem Collection of the SSL mitigations I've been collecting. Solution No commenta...

Updated 10 months ago by david

SNMP configuration

Palo Alto 10.1.x

(2024-12-17) set deviceconfig system snmp-setting access-setting version v3 views My-SNMP-View vi...

Updated 11 months ago by david

CLI Basics

Palo Alto Random

(2024-12-17) Command Mode Show System Info > show system info hostname:... ... Show configurati...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Upgrading Remi PHP

Linux CentOS 8

(2024-12-05) Assuming you already have a remi php installed: # dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.3

Updated 1 year ago by david

Check Internet Service Database Match

FortiOS v7.2.x

(2024-08-28) Remember you need to have basic support in order for this db to be populated. Firewa...

Updated 1 year ago by david

dotfiles

My Stuff

(2024-11-24) Dotfiles for my personal consumption: # wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xdroo...

Updated 1 year ago by david