• Cisco,  Miscellaneous

    How to build your own Terminal Server

    Normally my lab environments are primarily made up of Meraki devices so there is no need for a terminal server. However, I recently started building out a large lab environment in my home lab which was a mix of Meraki and Cisco Firewalls. I needed to be able to get to the console of two firewalls and a management server. While I could easily go into the basement and plugin a USB-Serial adapter into my Macbook and connect to each device individually, it wasn’t exactly convenient. I also needed to make the console for each of these devices available to remote administrators. My initial reaction was to hit up Amazon…

  • Cisco,  ISE,  Meraki,  MS

    Securing the LAN with Meraki GP-ACL

    This is huge for Meraki. We have been waiting for this feature for years. While some might scoff at this as it has been available for years with other vendors and platforms. Meraki has been able to develop this feature and package it into a super easy-to-configure and super easy-to-use feature set across most of the Meraki MS switching portfolio. Let’s check it out! Let’s start with what is a group policy and why we should care. Meraki Group Policies are basically L3 – L7 sets of rules that can be applied to devices in several ways. On MS switches this will allow users to define sets of Access Control Entries…