When a Router receives a BGP UPDATE packet that contains Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) – this is, a route; the packet is processed in the next order: – Step 1. BGP checks for the NLRI (prefix received) against any BGP inbound filter configured on the Router. – Step 2. If the NLRI is not… Read More »
The BGP aggregate-address can be used to summarise a set of networks into a single prefix. For this post, I just wanted to show the difference between aggregate-address and aggregate-address with summary only. We have below topology. I’m going to summarise prefixes in R1. R1 config hostname R1 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/0 ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.252… Read More »
Most of the time in a small network, we will be using the Layer 3 device as a default gateway and a DHCP server. And most of the time also, we will be excluding the gateway’s ip address from the dhcp pool. Just to save 1 more configuration line and for the sake of knowledge,… Read More »
Basics of Active Directory With LDAP syntax the Bind DN, or the user authenticating to the LDAP Directory, is derived by using LDAP syntax and going up the tree starting at the user component. For example, the user user1 is contained in the Users container, under the example.com domain. The corresponding Bind DN will look like the following: CN=user1,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com, but this will be… Read More »
Configure the following on the Active Directory (AD) Server and the Palo Alto Networks device: Create the service account in AD, which is utilized on the device. Be sure the user is part of thethe following Groups: – Distributed COM Users – Event Log Readers – Server Operators Note: Domain Admin privileges are not required for… Read More »