The Reliable Static Routing Backup using the Object Tracking feature can ensure reliable backup in the case of several catastrophic events, such as Internet circuit failure or peer device failure.
This excellent article shows how to configure Static Route Tracking using IP SLA, so your Cisco router automatically switches between different routes. With the use of IP SLA, the Cisco router can use ICMP echos (PING) to monitor the WAN link and automatically initiate a backup connection in the event of a link failure.
Our legendary step-by-step instructions will teach you how to successfully configure and troubleshoot IP SLA.
This article was written by Sujit Nair who works as a Support Engineer in the Routing Protocol section of Cisco Systems.
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Posted by admin on Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 20:29:42 EEST (10 reads)
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GFI Software Enhances its Security Product Offering with the Acquisition of Sunb
GFI Software, a market leading provider of software infrastructure products for small and medium-sized enterprises, announced today that it has acquired Sunbelt Software and specifically its VIPRE® product suite. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition will allow GFI to merge VIPRE technology into GFI’s email security and web security solutions group, and will provide GFI with new security products consisting of world-class and innovative technology. The assets of Sunbelt’s software distribution business, started over 16 years ago and separate from the technology side of the company, will be divested into a separate entity and the company is exploring other strategic partnerships.
To read more about this strategic acquisition, please follow the link below:
As a popular network security website, we use a variety of tools to help us analyse protocols and illustrate how they work. Many of these tools are found in a network engineer's every-day toolbox, while others not.
Colasoft's Capsa is a network analyser you are likely to find many engineers using and does more than simple packet capturing. We've used Capsa in the past as a packet sniffer but this time we were left very impressed by what we saw, so we decided to check it out in depth and review this terrific tool for our community.
Our review contains a generous amount of pictures and step-by-step guide through the application so you won't need to go elsewhere to figure out what it can do and how it can help you.
If you are interested in network analysis, looking for a tool to help troubleshoot network problems or even would like to get a glimpse of the tools professional engineers use, then make sure you continue to our detailed review.
WEB SSL VPN is a term frequently used these days by many vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Checkpoint and more, but what exactly is it and how does it differ from the VPNs as we know?
The WEB SSL VPN article aims to introduce the concept of Web VPN and how it works. We analyse the concept, the advantages, why the market is moving to these solutions and how it can help any businessman or engineer get the most out of their network resources when connected remotely.
This very popular article was originally written by Chris Partsenidis, Founder & Senior Editor of Firewall.cx, for Techtarget's SearchEnterpriseWAN.com.
GFI Software, a leading infrastructure provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) has released GFI Backup 2010 – Business Edition. The new backup solution is ideally suited for IT administrators who want to create a single backup/restore task and apply it across the entire network, saving valuable time in configuring multiple tasks as well as maintaining them when a change in policy occurs.
GFI Backup – Business Edition has purposely been designed to ensure that the process to restore data is reliable, efficient, fast and easy to manage.
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Posted by admin on Monday, May 31, 2010 @ 15:34:50 EEST (303 reads)
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We would like to inform our community that our site upgrade has been successfully completed!
While there are some small glitches we need to take care of, everything should be working without problems. Should a member discover an error or problem, please report it using our site forums so we can take care of it.
Thank you for your patience.
The Firewall.cx Team.
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Posted by admin on Sunday, May 23, 2010 @ 00:12:48 EEST (149 reads)
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SITE UPGRADE DURING THIS WEEKEND
chris writes "We would like to inform the community that Firewall.cx will be offline during this weekend due to a scheduled maintenance and upgrade.
The upgrade is scheduled to begin early hours of Saturday morning (US time), and will take a few hours to complete. During the upgrade, the site will be unavailable to the public.
We are expecting to have the site fully functional by the end of the day.
Thank you for your understanding!
Chris Partsenidis
Founder & Senior Editor"
Posted by admin on Friday, May 21, 2010 @ 00:31:57 EEST (139 reads)
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Installing & Configuring Windows 2003 DNS Server
chris writes "This article describes step-by-step how to install and configure a Windows 2003 DNS server.
The article begins by setting up a cache-only DNS server and progress to creating a primary forward lookup zone, a reverse lookup zone, and finally some resource records.
Posted by admin on Sunday, May 09, 2010 @ 01:32:48 EEST (248 reads)
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Cisco 64-bit VPN Client is on its way!
chris writes "Cisco VPN Client 64-bit is on its way!
After many years of anticipation, Cisco has finally got the message and decided to develop a 64-bit version of its popular Cisco VPN Client software!
As most Cisco engineers are aware, the absence of a 64-bit VPN Client produced a lot of problems when it came to connecting remote users (with 64-bit Windows) to the corporate network.
The 32-bit version of Cisco VPN client refuses to install on any 64-bit operating system, leaving the administrator with two options: 1) Install and configure (if possible) the new VPN trend of Web SSL VPNs, where purchasing licenses are necessary, or 2) Use a third party/opensource 64-bit VPN client.
While third-party VPN clients do provide a solution, they seem to fall short of functionality when it comes to connecting to corporate networks with multiple intranets/networks.
Now, thanks to Cisco (and the persisting community), this nightmare is nearly over as a Beta version of the 64-bit Cisco VPN client is already out.
Trials until now, show that even thought the VPN client is in Beta version (5.0.07.0240), it is extremely stable and should be ready for release very soon.
Note: We would like to thank Eleftheriadi Dimitri from Cooper-Industries for his input on this post."
Posted by admin on Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 15:41:23 EEST (453 reads)
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Firewall.cx the world's first official Media Review Partner of CiscoPress titles
chris writes "Cisco Press today cemented a long-standing partnership by appointing Firewall.cx as the world's first official Media Review Partner of Cisco Press titles. Already officially recommended by Cisco's CCNA Academy program, Firewall.cx has been reviewing networking titles since 2003 and has Cisco certified engineers throughout the world serving a huge user community.
Chris Partsenidis, founder and senior editor of Firewall.cx said, "We're delighted with this award which underlines the great work being done by our team. We aim to provide resources and support for our members as they learn and develop, and this partnership will allow us to introduce new Cisco titles to a wide audience while at the same time providing useful feedback for Cisco Press."
A special 'Official Reviewer' logo has been created to mark the occasion.
