Homelab Running Cisco CML in Proxmox For the past few years, I’ve been running all my virtual machines on VMware Workstation Pro, installed on Windows Suresh Vina Dec 21, 2024 5 min read
Infrahub Getting Started with Infrahub If you're in the Network Automation space or attended one of the last two Autocon events, you might Suresh Vina Dec 11, 2024 9 min read
Palo Alto Why You Should Change Palo Alto Master Key? Palo Alto firewalls come with a default master key used to encrypt passwords, secrets, and certificates. If your firewall is Suresh Vina Dec 6, 2024 4 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Auto-Tagging to Automate Security Actions Auto-tagging allows the firewall to tag a policy object when it receives a log that matches specific criteria, creating an Suresh Vina Nov 26, 2024 4 min read
Cisco Cisco CML Free Tier (No Kidding) I first came across this on LinkedIn that Cisco is introducing a free tier of their Cisco CML platform (starting Suresh Vina Nov 24, 2024 4 min read
Network My Experience with IP Fabric Automated Network Assurance Platform I've been following IP Fabric for some time now, checking out their updates and reading their blog posts. Suresh Vina Nov 20, 2024 9 min read
Arista Introduction to Arista PyeAPI The Python Client for eAPI (pyeapi) is a Python library that simplifies working with Arista eAPI, removing the need to Suresh Vina Nov 15, 2024 7 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Site-to-Site VPN Configuration Example What if I tell you that configuring site-to-site VPN on Palo Alto firewalls is easier than you may think? Just Suresh Vina Nov 13, 2024 7 min read
Juniper Juniper EX Switch Port Mirroring In this blog post, we will look at how to set up port mirroring on Juniper EX switches. The goal Suresh Vina Nov 7, 2024 1 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto High Traffic Latency Troubleshooting We all know that firewalls are limited by hardware resources. Larger devices support higher throughput, while smaller ones may not Suresh Vina Nov 5, 2024 4 min read
Containerlab Running Cisco IOL Devices in Containerlab Containerlab v0.58.0 supports running Cisco IOL images, which is something I was very much looking forward to. IOL Suresh Vina Oct 26, 2024 3 min read
Homelab Caddy Reverse Proxy With Docker I currently run multiple Docker containers across two hosts, each hosting various applications on different ports. UniFi Controller exposes the Suresh Vina Oct 22, 2024 5 min read
Palo Alto Global Protect VPN SAML SSO with Entra-ID In this blog post, we will look at how to use Entra-ID SAML SSO with GlobalProtect VPN. This guide assumes Suresh Vina Oct 19, 2024 5 min read
Palo Alto Global Protect Internal Host Detection & Internal Gateways - Lessons Learnt I already had Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN configured with an external gateway and portal, allowing me to connect back to Suresh Vina Oct 18, 2024 6 min read
Firewall Building a Simple HTTP Source for Firewall EDL Recently, I wanted to add a list of domains to the Palo Alto DNS policy to block them from resolving. Suresh Vina Oct 17, 2024 3 min read
Palo Alto How to Protect GlobalProtect Portal from Brute Force Attacks? As soon as you configure GlobalProtect and go to the monitor tab, you will see hundreds or even thousands of Suresh Vina Oct 12, 2024 5 min read
General Memos - Amazing Open Source, Self-hosted Notes App I've tried many note-taking apps like Evernote, OneNote, and Apple Notes, but none really satisfied me, if I& Suresh Vina Oct 10, 2024 4 min read
Palo Alto Auto Scaling Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in AWS In this blog post, we're going to explore how to Auto-Scale Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in AWS. It& Suresh Vina Oct 6, 2024 14 min read