Today's task is to set up ten new VLANs on a virtual pfSense router with separate, routable subnets. DHCP should service each subnets and both virtual achines and physical nodes should be able to use them. Let's see how to ... [Read More]

Learn how to make the IPv4 address the preferred address on your Windows hosts ... [Read More]

Two native ways of capturing network traffic on Windows servers and clients. Works on Windows 7, 8, 10 and Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019, etc ... [Read More]

With certain network changes you might end up with nodes in your network having issues contacting other hosts outside of their subnet. A typical scenario is when the default gateway's IP is re-assigned to a new router and the old ... [Read More]

Ping sweeping is a basic technique to find active hosts on a network. You might be looking for a particular host in your infrastructure, like a network printer, or you simply want to assign a static IP to a new ... [Read More]

This article guides you through the steps of setting up a proper load balancer for Exchange 2019, 2016 or 2013 client connections on a pfSense firewall, using HAProxy ... [Read More]

In this short guide we deploy a Windows-based SSTP server for clients. For details about the protocol and the way to deploy a linux-based implementation of the server that has auto-renewing SSL certificates, visit my guide HERE. Our test VM ... [Read More]

Always Hot Café needs a fast and cheap way to set up a VPN solution for it's workers. They don't want to invest in expensive hardware, or software. Also, the employees have Windows laptops and they want to use the ... [Read More]

To make use of a trunk interface connected to our linux box with a single interface we can configure subinterfaces accessing specific VLAN segments, here we will use Debian and RHEL, assigning two subinterfaces, to each, on will use DHCP ... [Read More]

I’ve come across a company this week, while sorting the SSL certificate on their RRAS server I noticed that all of their nodes had 192.169.0.0/24 IP addresses assigned in their network. When I asked them about why they were using ... [Read More]

Recently I came across a situation where a small office needed a direct IPSec tunnel between two offices temporarily, but they only had a router from their ISP which was not configurable, or at least not by them and they ... [Read More]