NetGate has announced a new version of its entry point gateway appliance. The SG-1100 has 5 times the performance of the previous SG-1000 micro firewall appliance. Marvell‘s EspressoBIN platform provides the core of the device. The appliance uses the dual-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor, 1GB of memory, and three 1Gb/s network ports. The device has…
Using virtualised systems and dev-ops processes means that most of the time it is easier to build something afresh using templates and tools than to make changes to an existing environment. But sometimes, you do need to make those changes. And if that change requires an alteration to the BIOS configuration, that can be challenging.…
With lots of different devices now using our networks, we would like to keep them safe. We can prevent users from being a risk to themselves and others while attached to our system. Especially if we are offering guest Wifi services via the captive portal on a firewall. Being able to corral the DNS requests…
Sometimes you need to be able to shutdown or startup virtual machines when all you have is a command-line prompt on the server itself. So how do we achieve this in the easiest way possible? Especially since you have no remote access to the server (otherwise, you’ll have used the inbuilt ESXi VMware tools remotely),…
