Constrained Kerberos Delegation & BlueCoat ProxySG

Posted on by David Vassallo

Kerberos is one of the more secure options that you have when deploying a network. It is also one of the more complex and intimidating options (maybe that contributes to it’s security 😉 ). But it is worthwhile to deploy in a network to increase security when accessing resources, and since a major component of … Continue reading Constrained Kerberos Delegation & BlueCoat ProxySG

TIME_WAIT and “port reuse”

Posted on by David Vassallo

Lately during some support work, a customer raised an interesting case regarding what was referred to as "port reuse". This lead to quite a nice investigation on the effect of the MSL and TIME_WAIT characteristics of TCP. So first we should define these terms and what exactly they mean. Getting an exact definition can be … Continue reading TIME_WAIT and “port reuse”