Networking

FreeNAS Performance Part 1: NFS Storage

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EDIT 1/8/2013: This post should be titled FreeNAS: The performance you will get when you don’t allocate enough RAM, or enough disk resources. These results are not a true representation of what FreeNAS can do. Here’s a better example: FreeNAS Performance Part 2 Following the Microsoft iSCSI VS. StarWind iSCSI, I would like to also compare another option that offers FreeBSD based network storage – FreeNAS. It supports AFP, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and has a … Read more…

Aironet AP Missing config command?

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Doing just a simple SSID and security change on an AP, I was using the web GUI. But then I was not able to successfully enable WPA, so I resorted to the CLI, only to find that I couldn’t even get into global config mode! —–ES-AP>en Password: —–ES-AP#config t ^ % Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker. —–ES-AP#? Exec commands: <1-99> Session number to resume access-enable Create a temporary Access-List entry access-template Create a temporary … Read more…

An Exercise in Networking – NATing twice

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And I don’t mean Twice NAT as on Cisco ASA devices. The problem: I have been using a PIX 501 as a gateway for some time. It works great – except for one small problem – it has a 10-user license. What does this mean? It means that if you are using NAT or VPN (or anything) there can only be 10 devices behind the firewall on the inside interface. The easiest way to see … Read more…