The Vyatta Network Gateway device places a customer configurable routing device in front of specific customer configured VLANs. The primary benefit of using a Network Gateway is control. A Network Gateway provides the customer expanded control over features and functionality, including: Terminate public IPSec VPN tunnels on the Network Gateway device. NAT based configurations …
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The NetScaler VPX product line has three family editions available supporting the same feature set as the NetScaler appliances: Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Platinum Edition Softlayer has provided the following options for Netscaler VPX. Standard and Platinum edition are available from license point of view The features are supported by the Platinum edition are: The …
In this blog, I will provide a Juniper route-based VPN reference configuration when customer is using Juniper SRX Firewall for IPSec connectivity to Softlayer. Softlayer End configuration, please refer to my another blog. Configuring IPSec on Cisco IOS router for Softlayer Connectivity Customer end: Juniper SRX Firewall (route based VPN) Create tunnel interface, VPN …
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In this blog, I will provide a policy-based VPN reference configuration when customer is using Juniper SRX Firewall for IPSec connectivity to Softlayer. Softlayer End configuration, please refer to my another blog. https://davidwzhang.com/2016/07/09/configuring-ipsec-on-cisco-ios-router-for-softlayer-connectivity/ Customer end Configuration: Juniper SRX Firewall (policy based VPN) Phase 1 set security ike proposal ike-phase1-proposal authentication-method pre-shared-keys set security ike …
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Who is Softlayer SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from 13 data centers in the United States, Asia, and Europe, and a global footprint of 17 network points of presence. Our customers range from Web startups to global enterprises. Softlayer offer IPSec VPN on private network for customer to connect their …
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As a network guy, you possinly need to check Internet Routing table for your IP range from time to time,especailly when you have some routing change in your network. You can go to the link below and find one looking glass router to verify Internet routing information. http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses I like the AT&T one $ telnet route-server.ip.att.net …
To examine the capacity of Jumbo frame in Softlayer network, I just performed a quick test in SoftLayer Singapore DC. Please see the output It is confirmed that Jumbo frame is supported on private network. The MTU is 9000bytes. On public network, it looks like that the MTU is set as 2100 bytes from the …
Recently, I was called for an application integration issue between Softlayer and customer's corporate network. The customer uses Softlayer Standard IPSec (the one in customer portal) as the communication path of app integration. But they saw some issue with that.The technical guy on customer end did some troubleshooting and found source NAT is performed on …
Global IP's provide IP flexibility by allowing users to shift workloads between servers (even in different datacenters). Global IP's also provide IP persistence by allowing for transitions between servers and CCI's; for example upgrading from a CCI to a dedicated system without having your IP tied to a particular server or VLAN. Next will show …
Softlayer provide Vyatta gateway as firewall and Netscaler VPX as load balancer. You can integrate these two functions to provide DMZ load balancing function, which is commonly requested by Enterprise customer. We have two options to do load balancing in DMZ on Softlayer: load balancing on Softlayer public network or load balancing on Softlayer private network. …
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