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does old cisco hardware have any value anymore, 2900 & 3550 switches, 3600 routers?  or is it time for the electronics recycle? I see maybe 50-60 bucks on ebay. but there are a ton.

Did you all see the NIH DDoS attack in the news from last weekend? It was a big deal, and happened on my watch.  I spent 25 hours between Sat/Sun battling that crap.

My brother turned me on to brighteon.ai, its a AI that is trying to preserve the "old ways" of doing and knowledge quote from the site it's a "set of critical human knowledge about food, nutrition, farming, permaculture, herbs, indigenous medicine, alternative medicine, off-grid survival, sustainability and other critical knowledge areas that have kept human civilization alive."

most interesting database of knowledge, Personally I couldn't get the self extracting .exe to run, so I downloaded the .gguf file and have successfully launched the .gguf in Ollma for windows 64bit. I Tried LM Studio, but my Norton AV said there was a virus in the LMstudio.exe, forums said it was a false alert, but I didn't want to take a chance.

Does anyone know, or have reference to configure OSPFv3 IPSEC authentication between Cisco router and Cisco ASA firewall
 
router is ASR-9912-AC running IOS XR version 7.4.2
firewall is ASA running 9.18(4)

Thanks

Anyone using it ?

we just got introduced to it last Friday. management is trying to make sense out of ServiceNow instance and who is working on what.   seems interesting but feel like I am being micromanaged by AI.

So deanwebb

how did Dallas fair the Beryl storm?

Getting tired of working firewall CIS compliance for over 200 firewalls, I've been at it for years. Yes it's a slow process with change management, but now that one of the team members left I've been tasked with firewall refresh,  standing up new hardware in parallel and migrating VLANs from the old ASA 5585 firewall to the new 4100 Running ASA. Still not quite to the FTD yet. had a 10 hour maintenance last weekend moving some 50 or so VLANs from one firewall to another updating routes and ACL's. but that's what I've been up to.


 

for those that celebrate.

Data breach exposes American Express credit cards

American Express is warning card members of a third-party data breach. Several other companies that use the hacked merchant processor could also be affected. Exposed American Express Card member data includes account numbers, names, and expiration dates. If exploited, cybercriminals can use this information to commit identity theft.

I went and bought a ASUS RT-AX86U Pro to replace my NetGear WAC104, I have them both running together until I get my wife and daugther to move over to the new network, then I will take out the Cisco 2950-12 and ASA5525 Firewall, and the WAC104, I could also probably pull out my Cisco 3550 also, and go 100% wireless with the  RT-AX86U connected directly to the cable modem.

how can I investigate this without forking out $$$ to Micros**t

from windows 11 system event log: today

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000004e (0x0000000000000007, 0x00000000004d420e, 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\021624-37796-01.dmp. Report Id: af82ef39-64d8-405d-a293-0f0bc1a6fb9e.

I looked at the .dmp file with wordpad but it was all gibberish. Seems like I am hitting something like this every day now for the past week or so.

I did purchase Norton Utilities Ultimate last week, and it did clean up a bunch of crap on my computer.

maybe it's time to run SFC /scannow.

Anyone have any experience with moving a data center?  out Fed wants to move one of our fairly large data centers, it's in an 80 year old building, they want to gut and refurbish the building.  Lessons learned?

Happy New Year 2024!!!!

My home config in Xfinity->Netgear CM1000 Cable Modem-> Cisco ASA 5525 -> NetGear WAC104 ((( wireless devices

Now the WAC104, needs firmeware updates, unfortunately, current firmware on the device is so old that the device will be wiped when I upgrade to the latest firmware. which will cause downtime.

the Cisco ASA 5525, id getting long in the tooth, no further software updates have been available for some time.

I'd like to dump the firewall and the WAC104, and replace it with something similar  I've been looking at WIFI Router, Netgear RAX10, Gryphon tower AC3000, and a Synology RT2600ac.

seems wifi routers these days require a download of an app, and then syncing the device with the phone app.
the Netgear and Gryphon seem to have firewalls, the netgear is basically minimal, and the Gryphon has app issues according to the reviews on amazon.

although I'd like to replace the network design, with CM1000 -> Wifi Router I would need to setup the WIFI router behind my firewall, connect it to the internet. validate it's working before I move to retire the ASA.

maybe it's best that I go buy a new firewall, and a new wifi router?

For those that celebrate, Merry Christmas, and may your Christmas greens be true.   

What happened?   
A security flaw is being blamed for a third-party data breach that has exposed the information of more than 35 million Xfinity customers. The internet provider reports stolen information that includes names, contact info, last four digits of Social Security numbers, and secret questions and answers. If exploited, cybercriminals can use this information to commit identity theft.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/

To all those that participate.
Happy Thursday to all the others.

wow just wow!!!
 I never knew how complicated the middle east was...
this guy does a good explanation.

I locked myself out of using ASDM on a Cisco multicontext ASA firewall. I somehow need to issue command "changeto context system" as I login to the firewall to change location to where I can transfer files between my PC and the firewall,  NAT is broken on the management firewall to the SCP server so SCP does not work.

ok ok. ASDM version has a bug that locks up session without releasing the, after disconnect, so when all used up the ASDM connectivity balks, and with new ASA version I went to it requires ASDM to have an imbedded digital signature, otherwise ASDM configuration command is not allowed.

See this is what I do when on call,  make up songs like this


Sung to the tune 100 bottles of beer on the wall

168 hours of on call to go, 168 hours of on call.
you mark it down, sit around, 167 hours of on call to go.

167 hours of on call to go, 167 hours of on call.
you mark it down, sit around, 166 hours of on call to go.

166 hours of on call to go, 166 hours of on call.
you mark it down, sit around, 165 hours of on call to go.

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