Port forwarding is a popular feature many networks use to allow access to your servers inside your network over the public internet. It is used primarily for the webservers, where you want to expose ports 80 and 443 to the public. However, it is used by many other applications as well. In this blog, we …
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The FortiGate Firewall is one of the popular next-generation firewalls used by many worldwide on-premise and cloud data centers. With the FortiGate Firewall, you can not only secure your branch or cloud network, but you can also connect your branches using site-to-site VPN and SSL VPN. In this blog, we are trying to see how …
In our last blog post, we covered how you can install a FortiGate firewall in GNS3, and in this blog, we are going to continue from where we left off to build a lab with the FortiGate firewall. Below is the topology that we are going to build. The FortiGate firewall WAN interface is connected …
In our last blog post, we covered how you can install a FortiGate firewall on a VMware workstation, and we were able to build a lab around it successfully. In this blog, we will take a look at how you can install the FortiGate firewall on GNS3. After the installation, we will build a small …
The VMWare Workstation pro is one of the popular virtualization software out there. it is free for personal use, and if you would like to know how you can get a copy of a free VMware workstation, check out the article here. In my previous articles, I have created multiple blog posts related to how …
FortiGate is one of the popular NextGen firewalls used by many enterprise networks. In this blog, we will install the FortiGate firewall on the VMware workstation. After the installation, access the firewall via the management interface. We will enable DHCP configuration on the LAN side and create basic security and NAT policy to allow the …
The installation is pretty straightforward when you deploy the pfsense firewall at your home or office network. When the pfsense has more than a single interface, it would automatically pick up the WAN and LAN interface. You connect the ISP to the WAN interface of the Firewall, configure the WAN side on the pfsense. The …
In my last blog post, I have covered how to install a pfsense firewall in the AWS cloud. And in this blog, we will install and configure the Paloalto firewall in the AWS cloud using EC2. Once the Paloalto is in place, the devices in the private Subnet can go out to the Internet via …
We have looked at how you can install PFSense Firewall on an old PC in my previous blog, which works well. The only problem with that is the PC has only one single interface. So, if you have a setup where you have a PFsense firewall, and you got only one interface, but you got …
When you want to start a brand new website you might be wondering, is there a way you can spin up a web server in the cloud for free. The answer is yes. You can actually run a WordPress website on the AWS cloud for free. In this blog, we will see how we can …
We have covered plenty of labs related to how you can set up IPsec on Paloalto firewall to other vendors. And in this one, we will set up AWS site to site VPN tunnels towards the Paloalto firewall. Below is the topology that we are going to configure. By default, creating a site-to-site VPN on …
Port forwarding is one of the features that is useful if you wanted to allow the external users to specific ports on the LAN side or inside the network. And many people get confused when it comes to the port forwarding configuration on the pfSense firewall. As you know the pfSense firewall is an open-source …
You got your network cloud setup in AWS, and the resources inside the VPC can go off to the internet. Everything works great, but what if you want to allow communication between the cloud and the on-prem network? There are multiple options from AWS for that. You could use, The AWS direct connect is something …
Virtualbox is one of the free, open-source hypervisors that you can run on pretty much all the operating systems out there. It doesn’t matter whether you have a windows machine, mac or Linux. The VirtualBox can run on all the devices irrespective of the operating system. We have covered how you can install Ubuntu Desktop …
We have covered how you can install the ubuntu-desktop 20.04 on the VMware workstation in our last blog. That was the desktop version of Ubuntu, so what about the Server? In this blog, we will take a look at how you can install Ubuntu server 20.04 on a Vmware Workstation. In the Ubuntu server, we …
We have taken a look at how you can install ubuntu 19.04 in our previous blog, and this time we are going to install ubuntu 20.04 on VMware workstation pro. I am also using Ubuntu 20.04 as my alternate operating system on my PC, where I did a dual boot of Ubuntu 20.04 with windows …
The Hyper-V is the native virtualization software from Microsoft. You can run Hyper-V seamlessly if you have the latest Windows operating system, such as Windows 11. Except for windows 10/11 home addition, Microsoft does not officially support the Hyper-V feature. However, you can still do some tweaking on your machine to get it working. When …
The hyper-v is the Microsoft version of the hypervisor for windows machines. Many users who are comfortable with the VMware and the VirtualBox start using the hyper-v they get confused about how the networking is set up in the hyper-v world. So in this blog, I want to dedicate some time and write about the …
Pfsense is a free, open-source firewall that you could deploy at your home or enterprise network. I have been using pfSense on my home network, and it works great. The main reason I use pfSense is to utilize the OpenVPN functionality. With VPN access, I can access my internal server storage anywhere worldwide. Not only …
Pfsense is an open-source firewall that you can spin up in your home, as well as in the enterprise network. I have been using the pfSense community edition on my network for quite some time now, and it performs well. Apart from the security, I could use its features, mainly the OpenVPN, IPsec tunnels, and …
The majority of enterprise networks in use today are exactly like the AWS cloud network. All end users in a corporate network will have private IP addresses; if any users wanted to leave the network, they would need to utilize a router or firewall that was installed at the network’s edge and had its public IP …
When you spin up a Ubuntu instance in AWS EC2 you will be able to log in using the private key that you have downloaded prior to the deployment. Which we have seen in my last blog on how to spin up Ubuntu-server on an EC2 environment. By default login to the instance using the …
If you want to start any web application or any application for that matter, the cloud has made our life much easier, you don’t have to spend anything for your infrastructure rather you pay someone else to manage the infra and you pay for what you use. Which is awesome. Most of the applications are …
I have been running pfSense as my home firewall for quite some time now. Setting up for the first time would be the difficult part for many. But once you make it up and running, it works just great. Since it is open-source, there is no cost associated with it, and you can build a …
The other day I was trying to download Ubuntu iso images from the internet. But it turns out the time it took to download the file was so much, and I was not getting enough speed while trying to download. I have an internet speed of 150Mbps, but I was getting around 1.5 to 2 …
I have been using windows 11 on my laptop for some time now, and the new changes on the operating systems are great. Most of the time, I use windows 11 as my primary operating system. However, I use Linux as my second operating system. When I say Linux, I mean Ubuntu Linux. If you …
In the last few blogs, we have looked at how you can install windows 11 on KVM and VMware workstation hypervisors with TPM enabled. In this blog, we will see how you can install Windows 11 on Microsoft hyper-v with TPM and secure-boot enabled. When windows 11 was in beta, I installed Windows 11 successfully …
The TPM, known as Trusted Platform Module, is a technology that enables security on both the hardware and software levels on a device. You can find TPM on pretty much every device out there. When the windows11 came out, Microsoft made sure that TPM was one of the requirements for you to install the operating …
Though in the mid of 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 11 to the public, the ISO was not made available to the public. We could only download the latest Windows 11 (beta) builds from Microsoft only after being part of the Microsoft windows insider program. However, On Oct 5th, 2021, Microsoft finally released the bug-free window …
One of the reasons people prefer to use VirtualBox over other hypervisors is that it is free for anyone to use it. It doesn’t matter what host operating system you use, whether its Windows, MAC, or Linux. The VirtualBox can be installed on it and run your favorite operating system virtually in it. Moreover, it …