One of the annoying aspects of traveling overseas is that you cannot access specific local network services from your country when you arrive in a new place. For instance, Some network services you have utilized in your home country might no longer function in the country you traveled to since those services might only be …
This is the continuation of the previous article, where we have set up two site-to-site tunnels from AWS to pfSense, as shown below. First being the primary and second being standby. Basically, we have built the transport over which you can now communicate with each side. However, to dynamically send and receive route advertisements and …
When you deploy the site-to-site VPN between AWS and pfSense using a static route, a phase1 will come up. However, the phase2 will remains down. As a result, the devices on both ends cannot communicate. Even if you try to connect phase 2 from Status->IPsec in pfsense manually, you will see the connection is not …
I had been putting off getting my AWS certification, specifically the AWS Solution Architect Associate test, for a long time. I eventually passed the exam using a step-by-step method and earned my first cloud credential. I wouldn’t say it was simple, but it wasn’t very challenging either. So, in this blog post, I’ll explain the …
Asa is one of the popular firewall offerings from cisco, used by many on-prem enterprise networks. Many users are now using the ASAv on the AWS cloud; it sits at the edge of the cloud network protecting your AWS resources. You can also take advantage of this setup and configure end-user VPNs such as Any …
In my previous blog post, we installed the PFsense firewall on the AWS cloud. When you have Psense firewall installed on the AWS side, you might want to connect to it over VPN as an admin and allow VPN access to your end-users if they are required to get into some AWS resources through pfsense. …
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 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 …
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 …
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, AWS Site to Site VPN. AWS …
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 …
I remember when I want to learn about Cisco network gears a decade back, I used to think about renting the physical gears or even purchasing them, which is of course is an expensive option. But when I started to learn about the cloud, getting a hands-on becomes a lot cheaper. If you have never …
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 …