100th Post – Anniversary Edition
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 8th September 2008
[Edit] I just realized this was my 100th post. So imma go buy me a beer and leave it in the fridge until our next house party and one of my friends finds it there and drinks it. Yeah!
It’s been over a month since I began my research and knowledge-gathering on the re-implementation of our network VPN infrastructure. It’s not yet complete but I feel very accomplished and edified with the ways things have turned out so far.
We started out with all our remote offices/sites connecting to our corporate site via a mixture of different router-to-router VPN solutions (i.e. IPsec/GRE and DMVPN). Today we have all the routers in our remote sites connected on IPsec VPNs to our corporate office on an old PIX that we recently recomissioned. VPN client requests are also hitting our new (old) PIX and authenticated by a Win2003 RADIUS server.
I guess the sense of accomplishment comes from the fact that this is the first time I’ve ever implemented such a design. Add to that fact that I received little to no help from anyone at work – minus, of course, some tips from some excellent bloggers who read this little blog-o’-mine. Studying really does pay off! 
Next on my list (this project is only half complete):
- Configure dynamic routing, most likely OSPF. I think this one needs GRE to work so I will be reading up on that. Actually I’ve already read up on it so now I just need to see if I can lab it up. Or I can always test on the production routers like I’ve been doing. Real men test on production servers!
- My boss would like to have some sort of redundancy implemented so I will be working on that.
- This is just for my own use but I’d like to get MRTG up and running for bandwidth and traffic utilization monitoring. I’ve read about it before and was able to successfully install it. But I still wasn’t sure how to use it and exactly what it did. So I’d like to know more.
- I have to factor in, also, my BSCI studies. Because a big chunk of the time that I use to learn and configure our network is done during off hours (meaning during the times when I would be studying for BSCI). I’m trying to re-dedicate a good balance of time to get back on track with finishing BSCI and shooting end of October to take the test.
Ok, cool!
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