BGP Quick Hitters: BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol, which is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard. It is the routing protocol responsible for advertising, learning, and calculating the best paths throughout the internet. BGP uses a routing best path protocol, based on distance vector routing algorithm. Exchanges routing information over TCP. […]
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Fun with Linux
NETSWAG BLOG – Fun with Linux Recently, I bought a 4TB external hard drive that I planned to use to transfer files between two CentOS 7 servers. Thinking that I needed a disk format, other than NTFS, that would allow me to utilize all 4 TBs, I decided to go with ExFAT. After formatting […]
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NETSWAG Blogs – IPTables and Firewalld So while working on my lab server, I decided that I needed remote desktop access for the server just cause. After deploying VNC server, I received the following error: After doing some digging, I realized my firewall was blocking the traffic, and so let the fun begin. Checking iptables, […]
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NetSwag Labs – DMVPN LAB What is VPN? VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. Provides a secure method for transporting data across public networks. Data-in-transit is encrypted to ensure that data is protected from man in the middle attacks, snooping, and eavesdropping. What is DMVPN? DMVPN stands for Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network. Utilizes of […]
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