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Testing new features…

This is the paragraph function and I can put links like https://www.bluebonnetmobilenotary.com here and see what they do. I’m not liking the simplicity yet so maybe I need more time with this.

hacking away on this new editor

Question: Ass gaskets – who all uses them?

Question: Eating in the office – how many of you know people that eat with their freakin mouth open and have to leave your own office to get away from it? lmao not saying anything…just sayin’….<grin>

Italy notes?

So I got a passport and work is sending me to Italy.  I may turn this blog into a little story about this trip if I can remember I actually have a blog.  This way I can post pictures and then just give a link over to my facebook friends and family without 3 million posts to FB.  🙂  So look out to the 3 users that randomly land on this website a year…prepare to be inundated.

UPDATE: Yep – I forgot again…actually it was more of the fact that I could not upload pictures due to my cell phone barely working there.

so: http://www.echorequest.com/fotos/index.php?/category/107  <—pictures!

Bitter sweet…

Today marks the end of an era for me…just shy of 19 years at my current company.  Today is the last full day at work…leading to a new chapter in my life …in a new strange location with a new wonderful employer and all new things.  I don’t know what the future holds and I can only hope it’s as awesome as my aspirations in my head want it to be!

I do know that I’m going to miss a lot of people here in Tulsa, Oklahoma as I venture down to Austin, Texas.  I also know I’m not that far away and apparently a lot of people want to visit Austin often….so Hey…look me up!  hahaha.

A few people have figured out from my email address that I passed around in my signature file that this is my personal website.  Maybe un-noticed is the fact that I rarely update it….been a LOOOONG while.  Well, I will try to do a little better with that and do things up differently so if anyone wants to know what’s going on in Waynes World….err…uhm, My World – just stay tuned and I’ll try to keep the excitement level and an easy 40something yr old pace.  🙂

Love ya guys…talk again soon!

Palo-Alto searching for Arps…

Logging traffic for global counters

If you need GUI Tutorial goto Palo Alto page:
https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-3199

1. Lets look for a drop or error counter that currently counts bad packets

This is an example with arp protocol. we are looking for some arp issues. Thats a tipical problem on networks…

> show counter global filter value non-zero delta yes | match arp

flow_fwd_l3_noarp                          5        0 drop      flow      forward   Packets dropped: no ARP  ----- HERE 5 bad packets!!! Look for it.
flow_arp_pkt_rcv                         468       47 info      flow      arp       ARP packets received
flow_arp_pkt_xmt                           2        0 info      flow      arp       ARP packets transmitted
flow_arp_pkt_replied                     175       17 info      flow      arp       ARP requests replied
flow_arp_pkt_learned                       2        0 info      flow      arp       ARP entry learned
flow_arp_rcv_gratuitous                   10        1 info      flow      arp       Gratuitous ARP packets received
flow_arp_resolve_xmt                       2        0 info      flow      arp       ARP resolution packets transmitted

2. Activate the log for that specific counter

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More Palo-Alto Firewall info I need – Status of incomplete vs insufficient etc…

  • incomplete
    • SYN or SYN-SYNACK-ACK is seen but no data packets are seen. In other words, the traffic you are seeing is not really an application.

EX: if a client sends a sever a SYN and the firewall creates a session for that SYN, but the server never sends a SYNACK in response back to the client, then that session would be incomplete.

  • insufficient-data
    • The firewall didn’t see the complete TCP 3-way handshake, OR
    • There were no data packets exchanged after the handshake

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Palo-Alto basic troubleshooting

When troubleshooting network and security issues on many different devices I always miss some command options to do exactly what I want to do on the device I am currently working with. Therefore, I list a few commands for the Palo Alto Networks firewalls to have a short reference for myself. Maybe some other network professionals will find it useful.

However, since I am almost always using the GUI this short reference only lists commands that are useful for the console while not present in the GUI.

This blog post will be a living document. Whenever I use some “new” commands for troubleshooting issues, I will update it. If there are any useful commands missing, please send me a comment!

For a complete list of all CLI commands, use the CLI Reference Guides from PAN. Or use the official Quick Reference Guide: Helpful Commands PDF.

Standard Show Commands

The following commands are really the basics and need no further description. I list them just as a reference:

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