My latest work has finally come to fruition: Cisco Press CCNA Voice. In approaching this book, I took a different strategy of writing. Rather than focusing solely on covering exam topics, it's written from a "let's build a VoIP network...step-by-step." It contains configuration example after configuration example, which is what I love when I'm looking for technical documentation. Check it out!
November 2008 Archives
I never knew this, but Cisco has a "Cisco Learning Network Job Portal" to help you find jobs by certification level. Looks pretty awesome!
Click here to check it out: Cisco Learning Network Job Portal
My friend Mike Storm has come up with a good "base" ACL for use on Internet facing routers and firewall devices. While he has it listed on his blog, I am referencing it here for my own future reference.
Assuming my PubNet range is a block of 32 66.238.29.0 - 31. See below
! no fragments
access-list 100 deny tcp any 66.238.29.0 0.0.0.31 log fragments
access-list 100 deny udp any 66.238.29.0 0.0.0.31 log fragments
access-list 100 deny icmp any 66.238.29.0 0.0.0.31 log fragments
! no snmp inbound from the Internet
access-list 100 deny udp any any eq snmp
access-list 100 deny udp any any eq snmptrap
! RFC 2827 Ingress, RFC 3804 Martian Filtering and RFC 1918 private Address Filtering
access-list 100 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 255.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 224.0.0.0 31.255.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip host 0.0.0.0 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 192.0.2.0 0.0.0.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 14.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 169.254.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 198.18.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log
access-list 100 deny ip 66.238.29.0 0.0.0.31 any log
! no routing protocols inbound (unless needed)
access-list 100 deny tcp any any eq bgp log
access-list 100 deny tcp any eq bgp any log
access-list 100 deny ipinip any any
access-list 100 deny gre any any
access-list 100 deny pim any any
access-list 100 deny 90 any any
access-list 100 deny ospf any any log
access-list 100 deny eigrp any any log
access-list 100 deny udp any eq rip any log
access-list 100 deny udp any any eq rip log
access-list 100 permit now begins your permits...if any
Notes:
192.0.2.0 0.0.0.255 any log (range known to be used exploit default pw on WLA devices)
4.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log (Known as Net-14, a Public use network, possibly used by attackers)
69.254.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log (RFC2026 Link Local)
198.18.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log (block for benchmark tests of network interconnect devices, RFC2544)
This guide rocks - it's every router, switch, or miscellaneous widget that Cisco makes and the modules each can handle. Very handy when trying to figure out what to buy for a project.
You can conveniently download it from here.
-Summer 2008 Edition
