Category Archives: Cisco

Hacked !

This blog got hacked yesterday. It looks like some spammer managed to inject some PHP code into almost all *.php files of WordPress. It was not just like the classic SQL injection that is usually used to post some malicious post. The following code was added :

How to connect to a Cisco device using the serial port on Linux

Using the serial port is still necessary to manage some devices, when it is reseted to factory defaults. It could be also a security choice… Nowadays many computers – and especially laptops don’t have anymore a built-in serial port. Not a problem, there are many cheap serial-usb converters like this. As an alternative to the [...]

FTP configuration issues

I found that it was a real mess to set up a FTP server in a DMZ, behind a firewall Cisco Asa (501 model with IOS version 7.0). The FTP server is on the DMZ area, and therefore I natted a public IP to the private IP in the DMZ subnet of this server. Doing [...]

OpenVPN and DNS on a linux client

I got a weired issue with Linux clients while it worked fine with Windows machines. For some reason, the /etc/resolv.conf did not get updated.

I found out a workaround thanks to this page.

Of course, your server configuration file must contain (if 192.168.1.1 is your DNS server):

push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"