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How to obtain a IP address or block of IP addresses
There are many reasons a person or company will need their own IP address block. An individual could need a static IP for business purposes but may not want to purchase a static from … [Read more...]
Cisco Clean Access Review
How it all works 30,000 foot view Cisco Clean Access checks our users computers for Anti-Virus (Trend Micro) and Windows Patches (also check for many as well as forces sign on before access to the network can begin. Cisco Clean Access uses several applications and devices to make this all work: … [Read more...]
Why does Cisco Retire IPS signatures?
Retiring of a signature is done by Cisco when the signature is no longer needed (generally the vulnerability is fairly old, the majority of systems have been upgraded to newer versions, and the attack is rarely if ever being seen on the Internet anymore). One of the main reason for doing this is that retired signatures will not use CPU cycles. Retiring a signature will force … [Read more...]
NAC Registry modification required
In order to configure a client machine to detect when the vlan changes you must define the appropriate registry keys on the client. The following required DWORD registry keys are all located in the same HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cisco\Clean Access Agent\ registry location. RetryDetection 5 PingArp 0 VlanDetectInterval 5 You'll need to make these changes is you're in an OOB … [Read more...]