Stollielab

Recently i needed a simple solutions to backup a couple of files but did not want to spend the money to get azure backup. I am already using azure blob for my offsite/cloud storage, so why won’t i do the same for my linux VM. Start by adding the ppa for duplicity sudo add-apt-repository ppa:duplicity-team/duplicity-release-git sudo apt u... Read More

Today i was working on my new servers to be placed into the datacenter when i found this website. They have created 2 live images with everything included to flash the most common dell perc cards. If you need to flash a card i highly recommend this tutorial: https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html Read More

Last Tuesday it was finally time to move into my new colocation rack. During the last couple of days i was working on finishing the configuration because i was not able to prepare everything. Now that it is finished i am finally able to write this post. Planning Tuesday i started work in the morning at our office in Utrecht to drive to the data... Read More

This morning i finished writing the first post in the series which explained the current plans and progress on the Primary datacenter and i thought i would also write this one. This will be a short story about this location and why i have retired it. Well actually the retirement is quite easy, i have a new job :). But now i will give a little bi... Read More

For some time i have been searching for a good self-hosted password manager that saml authentication but also is not to expensive. During my search i found a reddit post from the developer of psono, after looking at his website it looks like this manager will meet my requirements. It has a free enterprise community version that can be self-hoste... Read More

We are now 1 month further than my previous post about the re-organization of the lab and alot of things have starting moving already. So in this post i will explain what has changed from the first plan and what has been arranged already. The biggest change that has happened the last month is that i have found a new job and will start there on n... Read More

After my 2 year break from posting and using this blog i am back! The last time i was working on a new post showing you my plans for setting my multi-site homelab network, sadly i did not finish nor safe the post thus it never appeared on the site. Now that i have used this homelab for some time it is time for some re-organization of the lab. I ... Read More

VPN debugging on ASA Check to see if there are duplicate ASP tables: sh asp table classify cryptosh asp table vpn-context detail Filter debug output to single or multiple tunnels: debug crypto condition peer <remote peer> Debug commands for IKEv1 and IKEv2: debug crypto ikev1 127debug crypto ikev2 protocol 127 Debug commands for i... Read More

For my studies i replaced my PFsense VM for an cisco ASA 5506 to gain more experience configuring these kind of firewalls, this also makes it easier to try and test new things without having ask permissions of our customers and plan maintenance windows. Before i was using openvpn on PFsense to give access to a couple of friends who are using my... Read More

Since i started my ccna homelab i wanted a small but powerfull device that i could use for client/server emulating. Now i have finally found something that is both cheap enough and small enough to easily use it while working on the network gear. Because it is running on a raspberry pi with docker you can add multiple other services or different ... Read More

Check to see if there are duplicate ASP tables: sh asp table classify cryptosh asp table vpn-context detail Filter debug output to single or multiple tunnels: debug crypto condition peer <remote peer> Debug commands for IKEv1 and IKEv2: debug crypto ikev1 127debug crypto ikev2 protocol 127 Debug commands for ipsec: debug crypto ip... Read More

Last year i got the assigment to research BGP because we where going to use this in a new datacenter for one of our customers. They where moving to a dual datacenter setup, with an 1GB fiber connection between them. Because we wanted to create an active/active datacenter setup we had to use BGP to connect to the ISP and get access to the interne... Read More

This will be a short tutorial on how to monitor Docker containers using the Zabbix agent. First, you need to set-up the Zabbix agent on your Linux host: Install Zabbix-agent 3.4 on Linux When you have installed the agent and configured it within the Zabbix server we can continue. We are going to start by downloading the necessary files that... Read More

In this guide, I will show you how to set up a Wordpress website using a Linux based server with docker. Everything will be based on a single docker-compose file which creates 2 web servers 1 SQL database and traefik for load-balancing and proxy. I assume you have already configured an Ubuntu(16.04) server and installed docker. The first ste... Read More

Before we can start we have to check which version on Linux we are currently running by executing the following command. lsb_release -a This command will output which distrubition and release you are currently using. The 2 values that we need are: Distributor ID and Codename. This is the output that i got when i ran the command: Distributor ... Read More