Here I stumbled on an intro into Bash scripting for NetOps by John Kristoff " Introduction to Shell and Perl scripting for Network Operators" https://www.cymru.com/jtk/talks/nanog54-intro-scripting.pdf and could't help but do it my way. Here it is, bash script that generates random password of printable …
This one can be filed under Fortinet ‘undocumented/unwanted’ feature rather than bug.The case in question: Fortigate 80C , firmware 4 something, all subscriptions are up-to-date, no crazy configurations, all looks fine... Until client adds to his LAN some back-up device that works by gathering data from clients installed on …
Trying out Amazon AWS Glacier with fastglacier.com as the upload GUI app I looked at few SHA256 sum calculating tools, and found this one by Jesse Kornblum to be the best for Windows. It has some quite useful options like recursive folders calculation, file size limitation, reading file names …
While not mentioned explicitly in Release Notes for SNX 75 (it lists there only Mac OS X 10.7, 10.7.1, 10.7.2 Lion, 32-bit and 64-bit as supported versions) , it does work with new version of Apple Mac. Yesterday I did it for R71.40 and it …
I've been seeing this for some time so you will see it soon too. We speak here mostly about SNMP probes coming from a set of very specific IPs. If you do a search on IP you get to the webpage below http://critical.io (web site is not up …
There is a known issue with transferring big files (bigger than 1 Mb) from/to SecurePlatform firewall by Checkpoint. The file transfer fails with some error about buffers. The problem is that Checkpoint SPLAT comes with old opensshd daemon , which has a bug in it dated 2006 ( https://bugzilla.redhat …
It is worth mentioning that Cisco IOS routers can serve as CA servers as well. The example configurations are easy to find on the cisco.com (see link below). The only trick to know not stated in the documentation - when enrolling Cisco VPN client with IOS CA the syntax you …
One of the first things you do when checking connectivity issues on the Checkpoint (or any networking gear for that matter) is to see speed and duplex parameters of the interfaces. But have you tried to do it on a firewall with 15-20 interfaces ? No fun entering one by one …
After years with Checkpoint products I came to conclusion that if you don't have logical explanation why something doesn't work, it is most probably license issue. My client stopped getting emails behind UTM-132 at some remote branch . Doing the basics - telnet to port 25 (Checkpoint answered as it should), Exchange …
It was predictable thing for Fortinet to do as everyone else has already been doing so. I haven’t verified myself but according to the informed source (can only say his name - Hen) they are using Maxmind database . So let’s see how to do it . First you create in …