http://blog.super-networking.net Tips, Tricks, Bootlegs and Workarounds for Your Network Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:57:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So you want to connect securely to your Pix firewall? You will need to setup SSH instead of connecting using telnet. Telnet is clear text and SSH is encrypted. Below are the required commands to run on your pix: Hostname "Name" domain ... http://blog.super-networking.net/networking/ssh-setup-on-pix/ I found out an interesting quirk when backing up DFS (Distributed File System) files using Symantec Backup Exec 11D. I have a full backup setup, basically selected the entire drive to backup, finishes every night with no errors. You go back into the job in Backup Exec and ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/backup-dfs-files-with-backup-exec/ What do you do if you want to look for combinations of word strings in Gigabytes of IIS log files but don't want to spend any money? You download a program called Strings. This is a SysInternals program now owned by Microsoft that will search through text ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/search-for-word-strings-in-iis-log-files/ Do you want your workstations to connect to PPTP VPNs through a Cisco Pix firewall without having to setup a static NAT for each one. Are you getting the following error in your syslogs when you try: "regular translation creation failed for protocol 47" All you ... http://blog.super-networking.net/networking/pptp-vpn-through-cisco-pix/ First thing you are going to need is the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools You then are going to want to find two programs, instsrv.exe and srvany.exe, I would recommend making a new folder on the root of your drive and pulling over a copy of those two files. ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/install-exe-as-a-service-in-windows-server-2003/ Holy cow! Can you believe that finally the developers of Wireshark have reached 1.0.0 of their product. I have been running 0.9X versions of this software for what seems like forever. Wireshark for you who haven't looked for a long time used to be the packet sniffer called Ethereal. ... http://blog.super-networking.net/networking/wireshark-100/ Ran across something interesting this week. I was looking into performance on some of our webservers and noticed that there would be unexplained CPU spikes every once in a while. No real spikes in traffic, no additional tasks going on. In the event logs I did find something that ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/cpu-spikes-with-winhttp-web-proxy-service/ So if you are running Windows 2003 with IIS 6 and all of your web applications are running ASP .Net 2.0 you might want to get rid of .Net 1.1. Well with Windows 2003 it isn't easy or advisable to completely remove .Net 1.1 but you can unregister ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/unregister-net-11-from-iis/ So I posted earlier on splitting up the robots.txt you are showing based on if the bot was connecting on http or https here. I commented at the end that if this is an existing site and Google has already indexed your https content you need to be careful. Once ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/robotstxt-http-and-https-part-ii/ Do you need something to monitor the bandwidth usage on one server? For instance if you have a hosted server that has limited total usage. Well if you want a simple free tool download NetMeter. You can get real time statistics, totals including day, week and month. It ... http://blog.super-networking.net/systems/monitor-bandwidth-usage-on-single-machine/