Justin Cottrell, Author at Managed Services IT Provider

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So far Justin Cottrell has created 17 blog entries.

VXLAN Encapsulation in FortiGate

By Justin Cottrell|2017-10-03T10:42:36+00:00October 3rd, 2017|Networks|

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a Layer 2 overlay scheme utilizing a Layer 3 network. [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2017-01-10T10:20:39+00:00January 10th, 2017|Networks, Security|

Before we begin, I just want to say that Fortinet's documentation is always a great [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2016-10-27T12:04:30+00:00October 27th, 2016|Fortinet, Networks, Security|

Sometimes it's necessary to change an internal client's IP address to talk with the internet. For [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2016-10-06T11:05:41+00:00October 6th, 2016|Fortinet, Networks, Security|

Fortinet has done a great job with their update, FortiOS 5.4. It's a departure from 5.2, but [...]

The other day I had the need to plug a Ruckus Wireless access point (AP) [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2016-06-02T11:48:03+00:00June 2nd, 2016|Fortinet, Networks, Security|

GRE Tunnel Overview Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) can provide a private, secure path for transporting packets [...]

Every once in a while, clients will ask me how to block certain countries (that are known [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2016-02-02T11:09:05+00:00February 2nd, 2016|Fortinet, System Administrator|

In FortiOS 5.4 you now have the option to change the interface color. I was [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2016-01-19T11:00:19+00:00January 19th, 2016|Fortinet, System Administrator|

The FortiGate login banner is a great way of explicitly asking users if they are authorized [...]

By Justin Cottrell|2015-12-01T11:48:17+00:00December 1st, 2015|Ruckus Wireless, Wi-Fi|

First Off, What is Cloudpath? Ruckus recently purchased Cloudpath networks, a wireless onboarding company. Cloudpath [...]