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Cisco PIX Configuration

Posted at September 21, 2008 2:32 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

I have a Cisco PIX 501 that I’m trying to setup. I have a fairly basic network configuration (relatively) and I have everything working except remote access VPN. I want to be able to VPN home on my iPod Touch from work and school. I’m trying to do everything from the CLI rather than the PDM GUI. PAT, SSH, etc are all working so if I get the VPN going I might buy it, even though it’s an end of life device. It’s still a really nice firewall. I’ll post the config if I get it working. Otherwise, expect to see it on eBay ($200 ballpark).

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Tags: Networking, Research

Research Papers: Topic Summaries

Posted at March 17, 2008 2:35 pm | In Research | By: Ben Woodruff

I’ve attached some of the research that I’ve done for my Advanced Networking Security class. Included are topic summaries on NAT, OSPF, and RIP.

Topic Summary: Network Address Translation
Topic Summary: Open Shortest Path First Routing
Topic Summary: Routing Information Protocol

If you notice any errors (especially in citations - I want to give credit where credit is due) send me a message or leave a comment.

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Tags: NAT, Networking, OSPF, Research, RIP, Security, Technology

Use DenyHosts to Allow More Secure SSH Access

Posted at February 7, 2008 4:40 pm | In Research | By: Ben Woodruff

The FLOSS project DenyHosts is designed to make it safer to allow SSH access to hosts. The basic idea behind it is that when there are X number of unsuccessful login attempts from an IP/host it will block that host from connecting via SSH.
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Tags: Networking, Research, Security

Allow Non-admin Users to Update Firefox

Posted at December 15, 2007 12:06 pm | In Software | By: Ben Woodruff

We recently noticed a problem where Firefox would prompt users (who are not administrators on their workstations) to update to the latest version (ie, from 2.0.0.8 to 2.0.0.9). If they tried to complete the update however, it would fail, giving the error “Software Update Failed”.

We decided the best solution was to come up with a way to let users update Firefox themselves, without being made local admins. The reason we wanted them to be able to do this is that IT doesn’t get around to everyone’s workstation often enough to keep up with the latest version of Firefox, and we felt that it was important for them to have that (for security reasons). (more…)

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Tags: Active Directory, Administration, Firefox, Hacking, Networking, Security, Software, Web Browsers

Rewriting URLs with Apache

Posted at October 14, 2007 7:18 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

As some of you have probably noticed I use Wordpress to manage this site.

Which is great, I like it, and my friend Jordan (hyper123.net) has a system that automatically updates it for me. Sweet. All is well, right?

Well… it was until today. The problem is that Wordpress works, and makes URLs “pretty” by rewriting them (which it does by putting a .htaccess file in your root install directory).

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Tags: Apache, Blogging, Hacking, Networking

I’m switching from RoadRunner to pigeon

Posted at September 23, 2007 8:17 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

…but it’s going to be slower than his current modem and there might be a lot of packet loss due to Hawks

Wrong. A 4GB Flash disk can easily be attached to a pigeon’s leg. If round trip time is even 30 min (1800 sec) between his home and the collection point, and only one pigeon is in flight at the time, you get 4GB = 32Gb =~ 32,000,000,000b. 32,000,000,000 bits / 1500 s = 17,777,777 bits / sec = 17 MBps. This is faster than FIOS!

Latency may be a problem as would be packet loss.

-b.

From Slashdot commenter b0s0z0ku.

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Tags: Internet, Networking, RoadRunner, Time Warner

Live podcast? + Time Warner problems

Posted at April 8, 2007 6:58 pm | In Podcasting | By: Ben Woodruff

Jordan and I may be getting together to record a podcast in the same room! woot.
Normally we are talking over Skype, which can be annoying due to bandwidth issues and such.

Also apparently TWC had some trouble with their cable lines and because they don’t want you using their dial-in service as a “backup” if your home cable goes out, they were nice enough to disable dial-in logins today. I was unaware of these problems because my cable at both home and work was working fine, so when I went to my grandparents and tried to dial in… I was not happy. So I drove over to work and tried to talk to them over their Live Chat support… they were rude and basically told me that even though there was no real reason I should not be able to login to the dial-in access, I couldn’t because of the cable outage. Thanks Time Warner! Stand up service.

It’s a pain in the butt to get their dialup to work even when they don’t close it off due to unrelated problems. I made a post a while ago on how to work around RoadRunner’s horrible dialer and connect under OS X. You can probably do something similar under Windows and Linux but unfortunately I don’t have specific instructions. The key thing is to use aolnet/ent.youremail as the user name.

It sucks that there are no good ISPs.

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Tags: Media, Minimal Perfection, Networking, Podcasting, RoadRunner, Sidestream Media, Time Warner

8 way Halo LAN partys FTW!

We have them like 2x a year.

doshindude said

LAN parties are amazing. One word: Counter-Strike (ok that’s 2 words).

BTW, Halo isn’t a LAN party. It’s not PC gaming.

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Tags: Gaming, Halo, Microsoft, Networking, ProBoards, Research, Xbox Live

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