Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

EdgeRouter: Routing through OpenVPN and IPSEC with OSPF

By | May 9, 2016

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Because I have site-to-site OpenVPN and IPSEC tunnels between my primary and remote sites I ended up defining lots of static routes. The environment started to be complex enough to justify the use of OSPF that is supported by EdgeRouter. The… Read More »

EdgeRouter: IPSEC site-to-site with Virtual Tunnel Interface

By | February 27, 2019

The following are the steps I used to perform to set up an IPSEC VPN with a vti (virtual tunnel interface). The advantage is that using a vti gives us a route-able interface so making it easy to work with the IPSEC tunnel. The current setup looks like: Primary Site: ER-8 (with load-balancing WAN1 and… Read More »

EdgeRouter: Policy Based Routing for OpenVPN when Load Balancing dual WANs

By | May 26, 2017

Trying to fix my OpenVPN site-to-site link and due to the environment update I had to do some changes. The initial setup of the OpenVPN is here https://blog.voina.org/edgerouter-dual-wan-hair-pin-multiple-networks-openvpn-site-to-site-vpn/ First of all there is a new EdgeRouter ER-8 that is directly linked to the main ISP I got this from Amazon.de see Ubiquiti ER-8 Netzwerk/Router .… Read More »

SafeNet(Gemalto) Licence and software client

By | May 4, 2016

Very important information about the SafeNet software and licences. I get all the time very puzzled clients that find it difficult to understand how to see the license validity and how to install the e-token support. In order to obtain the software and to be able to monitor your licences you need an account with… Read More »

Secure authentication using SafeNet(Gemalto) security tokens and Windows CA

By | May 4, 2016

In the following I will try to show how to generate user certificates on e-tokens by using the Windows CA. This tokens can be used after that for secure user authentication or signing. Prerequisites: – Install the Windows CA service. This comes a standard feature in Windows Server 2012. – Internet Explorer 9 and up… Read More »

DB2 (Reason code = “18”.. SQLCODE=-30090, SQLSTATE=25000)

By | February 8, 2017

In a setup having an enterprise application depending on a database instance where some tables are defined as nicknames to tables from a federated database, it can happen to get this very cryptic DB2 error. I already had a post related to this case when the setup uses access to a federated database https://blog.voina.org/db2-sql-error-30090-caused-by-read-only-table-nickname-to-a-federated-database/. You… Read More »

Clone DB2 10g FC23 install to a virtual machine (FC23 or RHEL7)

By | February 8, 2017

I wanted to move my test db2 installation based on a Fedora Core 23 to a RHEL7 virtual machine without having to reinstall everything and not lose any data. This is in fact cloning my test environment database. This is not an easy task as is not officially supported by IBM but the beauty of… Read More »

Resize a RHEL7 QEMU/KVM image

By | February 8, 2017

At some point my RHEL7 development virtual machine run out of space. Resizing the image is really made easy by RedHat: STEP 1: Resize the virtual machine disk [root@localhost VMs]# qemu-img resize RHEL7-clone.qcow2 50G Image resized. [root@localhost VMs]# STEP 2: Start the VM and check the disks from inside the VM Check the virtual disk:… Read More »

Deploy Windows cluster on two sites with only one domain controller.

By | April 14, 2016

The requirement that an enterprise system has high availability on site and across sites is very often encountered in the world of financial systems. To achieve this requirement the obvious solution is to have a cluster on the primary site (PR) and another cluster on the disaster recovery site (DR). On the PR we created… Read More »

EdgeRouter: Dual WAN + Hair Pin+ Multiple networks + OpenVPN site-to-site VPN

By | April 1, 2016

My setup becomes more and more complicated bellow there are the updated steps of my configurations with references to the original posts containing the partial configurations. STEP 1 EdgeRouter : Dual WAN with Hair Pin Initially I started with a dual-wan configuration with some extra setting to exclude from load balancing the hair pin connections:… Read More »