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Converting cisco 1852 AP to controller (Mobility express)

           CONVERTING 1852 AP TO MOBILITY EXPRESS Get your work done easily, watch the video for this process:   CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO Pre requisites: 1.1852 AP 2.Mobilty express image 3.Mobility express update image 4.TFTP server 5.DHCP server Procedure: Step-1: Connect the 1852 AP in network which have DHCP server. Your PC should be in same network and reachability should be there. (between PC and AP) Step-2: Install the ME image  Open the tftp server and start it. Keep the Mobility express image (30MB) in TFTP-Root directory. go to AP console and issue the below commands: logging console disable      //optional prevents from bothering up with console logging messages debug capwap console cli ap-type mobility-express tftp://x.x.x.x/<image>.tar With the above commands, We have downloaded the ME image into the AP. It Will automatically reboots waits until it does!  Wait 10 - 15 M...

Installing and Configuring Fortinet SSL VPN

Procedure for installing and configuring SSL VPN client. 1)Download the installer from Downloads section. 2)Open the installer and follow on screen instructions. (Install VPN only when shown options) 3)Open the VPN Client application and configure the parameters name, Ip address and port number. 4)Then click on close. 5)Enter the User id and Password as: Username: xxxxxxxx password: xxxxxxxxx and hit enter, Click Yes when prompted. ​

[Step by Step] Configuring SSL VPN in Fortinet 5.2.4 and higher

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SSL VPN IN FORTINET 5.2.4 or higher Watching is more Fun than reading... Click the link above!!                                                                                          To configure SSL VPN in Any fortinet firewalls having OS 5.2.4 or higher follow this procedure (it might work for lower versions also, i didn't tested :) ) Note: In Fortinet, by default we get SSL_VPN_TUNNEL_ADD for SSL VPN Users., In this tutorial i have configured the remote users subnet as SSL_USERS_Subnet so wherever i have used this group you use your SSL subnet group. 1. Go to User & Device: add a new local user. 2. Go to user groups and a new group for SSL users and add the users created in step 1 in this group. 3.Go to Policy & Object...

Configuring LACP & PAGP

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Configuration of LACP & PAGP: LACP & PAGP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol and Port Aggregation Protocol both sounds same but the gap between these protocols is LACP is Open standard and can be used on any supported Product, where as PAGP is Cisco's proprietary and can be configured only in the Cisco devices. What are these these protocols? Generally we use trunk links to enable communication between two switches (for inter-vlan routing) when we use a single port for the trunk link (e.g., Gig port ) it gives us throughput of 1 Gbps, Making few more ports as trunk causes a loop and STP will block it from farming Configuring the LACP or PAGP gives us the capability to add multiple trunk links to a switch, without causing loops. So that providing more throughput. Port-Channel: When we have bundled multiple interfaces into a trunk group, A new logical interface is created automatically and its called as Port-Channel. When we configure this port channel inter...

Cisco Access Point Cap to Sap / Sap to Cap conversion

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CONVERTING CISCO CAP TO SAP / SAP TO CAP (lwap - Ap / Ap - Lwap): You can watch the video too...!!! Conversion of the AP's using downgrade or upgrade takes a lot of time and most of the times the IOS loaded will lead to an error, So Instead of that process i am going to use ROMMON recovery, It's a simple procedure for IOS changing. It will help a Network engineer's work a lot easier. ROMMON recovery is a process of Deleting the existing flash, and re-inserting our desired IOS. Follow the below  procedure. Mandatory Pre requirements: A PC with TFTP server installed. (Turn off Antivirus, Firewall in PC) Cisco AP which is to be converted. Console cable  Procedure: 1) Login to the CLI go to "privilege mode" . (Enable mode) 2) Execute the below command:      show flash: Output for the above command will be like this In the above output following are the firmware images: ap3g2-k9w8-tar.153-3.JBB5.tar ap3g2-k9w8-mx.152-2.JB2  We need to de...

DHCP & DNS

                What is DHCP and DNS ?? DHCP: Dynamic Host Control Protocol It's a protocol used to assign IP addresses dynamically instead of assigning static ip's to each. The process involves a process called DORA process. D - Discover O - Offer R - Request A - Acknowledgement D - Discover: Host (PC, printer, laptop, Access systems..etc, IOT) sends a UDP broadcast to the server. Packet from Host --> server O - Offer: The server offers a Unique IP address to the host in response to the Broadcast. Packet from server --> Host R - Request: The host requests for the IP address offered by the server. Packet from Host --> server A - Acknowledgement: The server sends a acknowledgement packet along with details of IP address, Subnet mask, gateway, Dns server1 and Dns server 2. Packet from Server --> Host DNS: Domain Name Server. As we humans are uniquely identified by our names, Every web...

How to calculate Subnets

            CALCULATING NETWORK ID ON FINGERTIPS This is a very simple technique which you will never find in any other sites or books, While attempting any exams we are asked to Calculate the Network id of the given IP. It's not a recommended way to use pen, book and calculations to find out the Ans. SO, Here come's a simple Formula to calculate that within seconds. *********************************************************************************************************** *As the General subnets we can do easily, But this process is very useful in calculating subnets such as   192.168.2.181/30      * *  ==> The network ID of the subnet is 192.168.2.180 we can calculate that in less than 7 seconds with this method                  * *********************************************************************************************************** Follow the steps below: 1) Identif...