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Vyatta L2TP Remote Access VPN
Vyatta offers a few remote access options – L2TP, OpenVPN SSL, PPTP. L2TP offers much more security features than PPTP. L2TP is encrypted using the IPSec Protocol, and can use 3des or AES for both...
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Vyatta Tshark examples
Vyatta has so many tools built in to make troubleshooting much easier. Tshark is built into Vyatta, which is just modified Debian. TCPdump is also included. Below are some examples of how to run...
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Monitoring the Vyatta firewall
You can monitor the firewall in much the way of a Debug command in Cisco. By using the command “Monitor firewall”. The blocked or allowed attempts will show up on the console. You can monitor just the...
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Vyatta Default gateway Script creation
I had to add a script into Vyatta the other day due to a bug in the OS. Well, bug might be a bad word, I think it was a driver issue with the NICs we were using. Any, the Vyatta would show the NIC as...
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Using Logrotate in Vyatta to manage logs
Logrotate is a tool that is built into Debian which is really what Vyatta is built on. Logrotate is a tool that allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file...
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Vyatta out of space?
Today I had a vyatta that has limited HD space and could not bring up VPN tunnels due to the lack of space. The below command is what I used to find the largest folder on the Vyatta file system : find...
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Hot add Nic into Vyatta VM – no reboot required
Recently I was asked about how to add a nic to a Vyatta VM, my reply “add it in VMware and reboot”- their response “We cannot reboot”. I asked why they can’t reboot and they said “If we were to reboot...
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Configuring an IP address and enabling services such as SSH/HTTPS on Brocade...
When Brocade purchased Vyatta I was nervous, but they have done a really good job with it. They keep it updated, and now have added a lot of functionality and increased services with the 6400 version....
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