Networking & Automation

Google Workspace Login for Your Web Application

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You can use the following steps for integrating Google Workspace login into your web application.

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Google Workspace Secure LDAP Group Based VLAN Assignment using FreeRADIUS

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In this post we’ll be looking at using FreeRADIUS integrated with Google Workspace Secure LDAP to perform VLAN assignment for WPA enterprise users. This setup has been tested with Ubiquiti Unifi and Cisco Meraki successfully. FreeRADIUS setup and Google Workspace integration has been covered in a previous post so please check it out to understand the prerequisites of this setup.

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Aruba Instant On API

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Aruba’s Instant On product line consists of plug and play access points and switches that are managed from the cloud. The cloud management portal – located at https://portal.arubainstanton.com – is free and does not require purchasing any license.

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Web Filtering as a Service on pfSense

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This post is about implementing web filtering as a service using a cloud hosted pfSense appliance. Using the setup documented below it is possible to offer web and URL filtering as a service for a safe web experience for schools, businesses and homes. It will also allow visibility into users’ traffic for compliance and logging purposes. This setup was tested on a pfSense appliance v2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 that was installed on an AWS EC2 instance (that setup is outside the scope of this post).

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FreeRADIUS with Google G Suite/Workspace Secure LDAP for WPA2 Enterprise WiFi

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This post documents the process of integrating FreeRADIUS with Google G Suite (now Workspace) using Secure LDAP. FreeRADIUS will be used to authenticate Ubiquiti Unifi WPA2 Enterprise WiFi users. The configurations presented here are taken from this wonderful repository. While the repo uses Docker, we will be implementing these settings in FreeRADIUS directly. These settings were tested on Debian 10.

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OpenVPN Server for Mikrotik On Docker

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A convenient way to remotely access and manage a Mikrotik router that is behind NAT is to set it up as an OpenVPN client. It will then be accessible from the VPN server or by other VPN clients. In this guide we’ll document a procedure for setting up an OpenVPN server in Docker and configure it to work with Mikrotik.

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PPTP VPN & NAT on Windows Server 2019

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If you want to setup VPN on a remote Windows server mainly to change your IP address and security is not the main concern then PPTP VPN is probably the simplest option. In this guide we’ll see how to setup PPTP VPN with NAT on Windows Server 2019 with only a single network interface (as is the case with most VPS deployments).

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