Virtual Machine Musings

Recently at work we were given a .OVA file to play around and test with. Turns out OVA stands for "Open Virtual Appliance" and is basically a file that allows for easy deployment of pre-packaged Virtual Machines (VMs). I had three options to run this OVA: 1. Use a pre-existing installation of the free VMWare … Continue reading Virtual Machine Musings

Controlling routing updates in OSPF

SonicOS 5.6 (still in beta at time of writing) has the ability to tunnel dynamic routing protocols over IPSec tunnels. Similar to the way Cisco does this by tunneling dynamic routing updates through GRE, then in turn tunneling the resulting packets through the IPSec tunnel. In preperation for trying out this new SonicOS feature, I … Continue reading Controlling routing updates in OSPF