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Stacking Cisco 3750 switches

| January 15th, 2012 | 4 Comments »
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There are a lot of articles out there on the web for Cisco's 3750 switches. However, there is no promise that those blogs will continue to stay up, so I've decided to create my own blog with my own experiences with Cisco's 3750-E's and 3750-X switches with many tips along the way! I decided to break ...

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SonicWALL NSA 250M Beta

| October 25th, 2011 | No Comments »
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I apologize for the poor image quality. My iPhone 3G is past its prime. It says, "NSA 250 M". Last month I was asked by SonicWALL to beta test their soon to be released NSA 250M firewall. This model will be replacing the NSA 240. In my opinion, the NSA series provide an excellent line up ...

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Transformers: Great American Tour

| October 1st, 2011 | No Comments »
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Transformers, now one can meets the eye! Ok so what a treat. My Friday, September 30th 2011 ended in a 90MPH drive, one hour away from my office to a client who badly needed a very old server that we just brought back to my office last week. It was a Friday, rush hour, traffic jams ...

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Top Ten IT Certs

| September 17th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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According to TechRepublic.com, SonicWALL's CSSA edges out Cisco's CCNA coming in at 5 and 6 respectively. I covered the CSSA course earlier this year that you can read here: SonicWALL CSSA I've honestly felt the last couple of years, Cisco has branched out a bit too far, this allowed other competitors into the market. With the recent downsizing ...

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SonicWALL-on-a-Stick

| September 10th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
SonicWALL on a Stick, SonicWALL-on-a-Stick

SonicWALL's never tasted so good! I touched up on this subject in my last blog titled, "Solutions to your SonicPoint WLAN Woes!" What I want to do here is go over what is traditionally known as "Router-on-a-Stick" or "ROAS". In this case, "SonicWALL-on-a-Stick" or "SOAS". The concept behind "ROAS" is that instead of taking a router and assigning ...

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Solution to your SonicPoint WLAN woes.

| February 12th, 2011 | 44 Comments »
Small Network Deployment

I recently blogged an article on how to quickly and easily configure a SonicPoint with your SonicWALL firewall. If you haven't read it, you can read it here before reading further. If you have read it, keep on reading! Below is an example of a typical but small deployment utilizing a SonicPoint for wireless access. As you ...

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Feeling locked out? Reset web access via CLI.

| February 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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SonicWALL isn't known for their CLI, and why would you really want to use it when you can easily administer the firewall from its web interface! Having access to the CLI can come in handy if you, for whatever reason, locked yourself out from web access. I will show you how you can reset/enable the ...

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Sonicpoint: How-to

| January 30th, 2011 | 8 Comments »

SonicWALL comes with nifty little access points called Sonicpoint's. They can either be plugged in directly to your SonicWALL TZ or NSA series firewalls. They are PoE capable which makes installation a breeze if plugging them into PoE(802.3af) capable switchports. If you do not have PoE switchports, you will need their power injector which I am ...

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SonicWALL CSSA

| January 15th, 2011 | 10 Comments »

Not much has been blogged about SonicwWALL's CSSA(Certified Sonicwall Security Administrator) certification program, so I think I'll take a stab at it! Last month my company was visited by Sonicwall to take a 2 day course on administering and securing Sonicwall firewalls. Believe it or not, there was no catch, other than having to wake up ...

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When “deny any” doesn’t deny all!

| December 27th, 2010 | 9 Comments »

I recently came across this discussion and thought I'd shed some light. A user wants to deny all traffic outbound a specific interface. Let's say it is ethernetO. The best way to test this is to create an ACL and apply it to your interface outbound, and ping out from an internal device. You won't ...

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