Aug 16 2010
Fortigate Dialup VPN client does not get an IP address although a DHCP pool is created and “DHCP-IPsec” is checked in the phase-2 VPN settings. An IPSEC ESP error is also raised in the event log. Setting a static IP does connect the client. To solve this, an additional firewall rule needs to be [...]
Feb 09 2010
As any other firewall, iptables is also able to do network statistics reporting. the -v (–verbose) option makes the list command (-L) show the packet and byte counters. Network stats are available on a per rule basis. Here’s an example on the INPUT chain: [stats@network_server]$ sudo iptables -nvL INPUT Chain INPUT (policy DROP 74941 [...]
Dec 19 2009
All systems need bridge-utils package installed either with yum or apt-get. Redhat / Fedora Edit each network interface startup file that is going to be added to the bridge [root@redhat ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=00:C0:4F:44:41:8A ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br0 And create the bridge configuration file [root@redhat ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 IPADDR=192.168.0.100 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 [...]