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In July of 2020 I wrote about the relative cheap cost of a standard SSL certificate from RapidSSLonline in an article titled, "Your certificate expires in 1 day!!!". While standard SSL certificates were available for ~ $14.99/year at the time the … [Continue reading]
We recently starting using Ansible to help perform software upgrades on the large number of Juniper EX-4300 and EX-2300 switches in our environment. Like the vast majority of organizations our downtime windows are extremely short and unfortunately … [Continue reading]
I recently had the opportunity to setup a Raspberry Pi 4 in a headless configuration and ran into an interesting issue around the WiFi configuration with Bullseye.When logging in via SSH the following text was visible at the bottom of the … [Continue reading]
Who doesn't love a good mystery, I'm no exception. A few weeks back we had an interesting issue pop-up. It was midnight on a Sunday night and PagerDuty started firing off an alert that a UPS in one of our distribution centers had just stopped … [Continue reading]
When possible it's always a good idea to test any software upgrades, because you just never know what your going to get. That was the case recently when I upgraded our test PA-220 from 9.1.7 to 9.1.12-h3 and seemingly breaks all GlobalProtect VPN … [Continue reading]