Interesting links | 2008-07-06

• Protecting your IP network infrastructure: a very comprehensive presentation listing most IOS/CatOS security features (look at the full version).
• Hot Air Balloon managers: the Thinking Problem Management blog where I found the link to the security presentation has a nice description of some IT managers.
• Web Farming with the Network Load Balancing Service in Windows Server 2003: load balancing built into the Windows operating system.
• How to enable IP forwarding in Linux: if you ever have to turn a Linux server into a router (ok, a layer-3 packet forwarding device :) but know as little about Linux as I do.
• Extracting BGP info with regular expressions: if you don't want to know anything about BGP regular expressions and did not attend the BGP course (where we cover all the commonly used ones in a special section), this blog post will give you the basics you probably need.
• ACLs and network protocols: how to block (or allow) BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and more in an IOS access list.