This is a quick blog to get out there what I discovered fixing this issue last week. My work issued me a Meraki Z3 for remote connectivity from home. Although it could talk to the cloud-hosted Meraki dashboard it could not establish the VPN between my house and the office for me to access resources. This confused me because I allow trusted network devices unrestricted access to the internet, so why couldn’t it “dial home” to bring the VPN up?
Continue reading “Fix for Meraki showing Unfriendly NAT on pfSense network”My CWNE essays published
TL;DR – scroll to the bottom for links to my essays.
In 2020 I finally got around to applying for and being granted the accreditation of Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE) from CWNP.
Now that this monkey was off my back I could smugly ask others what was taking them so long support others going through the application process. The most common road block I find people have about preparing their application is the 3 essays you need to submit. But the essays really don’t need to be the PHD worthy material everyone scares themselves into thinking is required. For that reason I am publishing my CWNE essays below for others to use as a reference or benchmark.
What EAP type is it using?
As part of my role I assess existing WLAN’s for Voice support. During the survey I like to independently verify as much of the information I’ve been given as possible using protocol analysis.. One setting that I always struggled to find was the security in use, particularly when EAP / Dot1X was in use.
I had most of it figured out and was able to answer my last few questions when I took the CWAP course recently with Peter Mackenzie (@MackenzieWiFi). So here is a look at spotting the security in use on an SSID.