Category Archives: Networking

ScreenOS : Upgrading firmware from CLI

Juniper ScreenOS for SSG security appliance can be managed either through the Web UI or command line interface (CLI). Upgrade through the Web interface can be endless and painful. The best way to do it is through the CLI. To accomplish this task, you’ll need : – SSH or Telnet client – TFTP server Here… Read More »

Networking : 92 bytes from 0.0.0.0 Time to live exceeded

If you experience issue with your subnet or receiving the following message when you try to ping an IP address, this mean you have a routing loop on your network. The same subnet might be configured on another router and the network is confused due to the different destination. You need to remove the bad… Read More »

JunOS : RT DEST 0.0.0.0 MASK 255.0.0.0 mask too short

You might notice this error trying to add a static route to your Juniper switch stack : root@ir01# set routing-options rib inet.0 static route 0.0.0.0/00 next-hop 0.0.0.0 {master:0}[edit] root@ir01# commit synchronize [edit protocols] ‘bgp’ [edit protocols] ‘ospf3’ [edit routing-options rib inet.0 static] ‘route 0.0.0.0/00’ RT: DEST: 0.0.0.0 MASK: 255.0.0.0 mask too short error: configuration check-out… Read More »

Linux : How to add IP range on RHEL/CentOS

If you have a full subnet to add on RHEL/CentOS Linux system, there is a short way to achieve this instead of manually create single alias interfaces. 1. Create a script at this location : vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0 (ajust values as needed, according to the interface you would would have the IP subnet binded to an… Read More »

OpenVPN : Unable to obtain Session ID XML-RPC: TimeoutError or 400 Bad Request

Using OpenVPN Server on Linux as well as Windows machine, you may encounter this error trying to connect a client : Unable to obtain Session ID from “vpn.domain.tld”, port(s)=443: XML-RPC: TimeoutError Unable to obtain Session ID from “vpn.domain.tld”, port(s)=443: XML-RPC: ‘400’, ‘Bad Request’ This happen because HTTPS (SSL) port (TCP-443) is closed either on the… Read More »

Active Directory : You do not have sufficient privileges to delete Organizational Unit

Working in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) trying to delete an Organizational Unit (OU), you get the following error : Active Directory Domain Services You do not have sufficient privileges to delete < Organizational Unit >, or this object is protected from accidental deletetion. By default, you need to uncheck the box “Protect object… Read More »