Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
ACE Load Balancer: Configure the Load-Balancing Service
There are quite a few ways to structure the configuration of the Load Balancing Service on a Cisco ACE device, or a Load Balancer (LB).
2012 Briefs
Chronological archive of briefs published in 2012.
December 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
ACE Load Balancer: Redirection - HTTP to HTTP/HTTPS
In this document I´ll explain how to filter the http protocol on a Cisco ACE Load Balancer, and how to redirect the filtered http traffic to another URL.
November 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
DAI - Dynamic ARP Inspection
Interface Trust State Rate (pps) Burst Interval --------------- ----------- ---------- -------------- Gi3/0/1 Untrusted 5 1 <--- THE CHANGED ONE Gi3/0/2 Untrusted 15 1 <--- 15 pps IS THE DEFAULT VALUE
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
ACE Load Balancer SSL Certificate Part I, Generate the CSR
ACE Load Balancer SSL Certificate Part I, Generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
October 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
ACE Load Balancer SSL Certificate Part II: Install the SSL Certificate
Practical notes on ace load balancer ssl certificate part ii: install the ssl certificate — Networking, Cisco configuration, design, and troubleshooting guidance.
September 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCiscoDeep Tech
VTP - Should we use it?
VLAN Trunking Protocol: most commands can be configured in PRIVILEGED, CONFIGURE or DATABASE mode
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
Spanning Tree: Root Election and Path Tuning
The concept is rather simple - The Switches send these probes called the BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units) to discover loops in the network.
July 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCiscoDeep Tech
Dot1q Tunneling: 802.1q, QinQ Tunneling
\Take SPECIAL CARE about the MTU SIZE on Swithches (might need to increase to 1504 due to the ADDED 4 BYTES IN THE TUNNEL)
June 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
CONTROL Plane Policy
CBAC and Zone Based FW are all DATA Plane policies. Another type of Security Policies is a Control Plane Policy.
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
BANNER and MENU Configuration
If you need to define a BANNNER to display the user restrictions, have in mind that you can use the variables: $(hostname) $(line) $(domain)
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
Etherchannel L2 vs L3
PAgP (Port Aggregation Protocol) - Cisco Prop. DESIRABLE or AUTO or NONEGOTIATE \in case the link is configured as ACCESS, or the "switchport nonegotiate" command \- Protocol Value: 0x0104 \- Same multicast group MAC...
May 2012
Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms NetworkingCisco
Router Security - Best Practices
No Service Password-Recovery feature is a security enhancement to prevent anyone with console access from accessing the router configuration and clearing the password.
April 2012
January 2012
Autonomous Infrastructure CiscoNetworking
Logging on Cisco IOS Devices
Logging is one of the things the Network Engineers are not really fond of, but you need to really understand why and how it needs to be used, for two reasons: 1\.