Branford Magazine, Magazine Style Wordpress Theme

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Magazine style wordpress theme, Branford magazine, suitable for journal, or article blog. Tabbed menu, and multi column menu can be customized.
Download for free here.

Mystique, Simple Wordpress Converted Theme for Blogger

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From Wordpress theme, Mystique is simple wordpress theme converted for blogger. Two columns template, widget ready, sub menu at header, simple, and good for adsense placement.
Download here for free.

How To Show Widget Only On Blogger Homepage

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Default behaviour of blogger widget once we add to blogger will be displayed in every blogger page. We can display widget only in blogger posting or blogger main page by add some code in blogger HTML template code.

To display widget in homepage only (main page), follow the steps below,

1. Login to blogger
2. Go to Layout --> Edit HTML. Click on Expand Widget Template. Find adsense widget. For example, adsense is placed with widget id HTML3.

<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'>

3. Add code with bold text.

<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<div style='float: left;padding:20px 0px 40px 0'>

<b:if cond='data:title != ""'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

4. Save Template.

Saving IP Transit Bandwidth, and Faster Route: Internet Peering

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Today internet is rather different with few years ago. Few years ago, internet is very dependent to Tier 1 ISP. If you have many Tier 1 IP Transit, you can have better internet access, because more route can you reach with best path.
Today internet is more distributed. Global content providers have their own network, and locate their servers at many data center at many region or continent. It give more balanced traffic, and break dependency to Tier 1 ISP. Also, regional ISP locate their router, and have own to link to one or more global data center, to reach global content provider and give possibilty to direct peer with others. This architecture give today internet more distributed traffic, and more better route.
The prerequisite if you want peer with regional ISP, global content delivery, or global content provider is to have colocation at global data center, like Equinix, LINX, and others. Check the data center that have Internet Exchange, and who are there through PeeringDB. Register first, it's free, then looks for internet exhange, their customer. Many content provider, content dlivery, or regional ISP is better.
Global content provider like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft are open for peering. It give you benefit by saving IP Transit bandwidth, that must you pay, and give shorter route. For example, Google,about 30% of my internet traffic is coming from them.

Partner With CDN: Saving IP Transit Bandwidth, and Faster Access

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Many IP transit now have their own CDN, but it is likely not a free service. Traditional CDN, like Akamai, are open for ISP to partner with them.
Partnering with CDN give benefits. Because it's locally placed at your data center, it can give benefits. The benefits are:
1. Saving international IP Transit bandwidth
2. Faster access

Akamai has program called Akamai Accelerated Partner Program for ISP. It is for ISP that want to place Akamai CDN server at their data center. Akamai has many customer from content provider to software company, like Microsoft, Adobe, and many. One that's looks as a benefit is your Windows Update will be direct to your local data center, because Windows Update are hosted at Akamai server.
I have experience when apply for Akamai Accelerated Partner Program. They looks my ISP AS Number, and they say, our traffic to Akamai content is about 30 Mbps average a day. After they evaluate, and agree, they ask us to provide environment for their servers, like rack, gigabit port, and setup BGP session with them.
Akamai work based on DNS and IP address. Akamai server client based on DNS request, and reply resolved address with nearest Akamai server.
Until now, I have no reference about others CDN that have partner program like Akamai. It's best for your ISP to partner with Akamai. It will saving your international IP Tansit bandwidth, and give faster internet access. And the best thing, it's free at all.

How To Insert Adsense Into Blogger Post

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Adsense in blogger post is a such good placement. Here the way to do that. First, parse your adsense code so it can be inserted in Blogger XML Code. Blogcrowds have tool for parsing Google adsense code to Blogger XML Code. Just put your adsense code into Parse HTML box, then click Parse. Save your adsense code that have been parsed.

Next step is place your result into blogger template code. Go to Layout section, then Edit HTML. Check Expand Widget Templates. Find in your blogger template code something like this:

<data:post.body/>

Place the code before that string if you want your adsense appear before post body.
You can also place your adsense after post body, just find code like this,

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

and then place your code after that string.

You can display adsense only in single blogger posting. See my another article in this blog about show adsense in blogger post or in home page only.

Delete JunOS Configuration Statement

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Deleting Statement from JunOS Configuration
Here example for deleting a statement from JunOS Configuration. I use BGP configuration for example.

[edit]
admin@dailyconfig# delete protocols bgp
[edit]
admin@dailyconfig# show
[edit]
admin@dailyconfig#

Using Regular Expression to Delete Related Items from JunOS Configuration.
Example:

Deleting Interfaces from the Configuration

Delete multiple T1 interfaces in the range from t1-0/0/0:0 through t1-0/0/0:23:

admin@dailyconfig# wildcard delete interfaces t1-0/0/0:.*
matched: t1-0/0/0:0
matched: t1-0/0/0:1
matched: t1-0/0/0:2
Delete 3 objects? [yes,no] (no) no

Deleting Routes from the Configuration

Delete static routes in the range from 172.0.0.0 to 172.255.0.0:

admin@dailyconfig# wildcard delete routing-options static route 172.*
matched: 172.16.0.0/12
matched: 172.16.14.0/24
matched: 172.16.100.0/24
matched: 172.16.128.0/19
matched: 172.16.160.0/24
matched: 172.17.12.0/23
matched: 172.17.24.0/23
matched: 172.17.28.0/23
...
Delete 13 objects? [yes,no] (no)

Completely remove configuration.
admin@dailyconfig#load factory-default

But, it's good before doing complete erase configuration, to have a rescue config.
admin@dailyconfig#request system configuration rescue

Configure L2TP IPSec VPN Server On Cisco Router

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Cisco router can be used as VPN server, using L2TP and IPSec, for client from internet accesing private network.

Below are steps for configuring L2TP IPSec on Cisco router,
1. Enable aaa authentication and create user,

aaa new-model

aaa authentication login default local
aaa authentication ppp default local
aaa authorization exec default local

user cisco password cisco

2. Enable VPDN and configure VPDN group

vpdn enable
!
vpdn-group L2TP
! Default L2TP VPDN group
accept-dialin
protocol l2tp
virtual-template 1
no l2tp tunnel authentication

3. Configure authentication methode. Using pre-shared key is the best and simple methode.

crypto isakmp policy 10
encr 3des
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 3600
crypto isakmp key cisco address 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 no-xauth
crypto isakmp keepalive 3600

4. Configure IPSec

crypto ipsec transform-set ipnetconfig esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
mode transport
!
crypto dynamic-map ipnetconfig-map 10
set nat demux
set transform-set ipnetconfig
!
!
crypto map cisco 10 ipsec-isakmp dynamic ipnetconfig-map

interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
crypto map cisco

5. Create Vitrual_Template

interface Virtual-Template1
ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0
peer default ip address pool poolipnetconfig
ppp encrypt mppe 40
ppp authentication ms-chap-v2

6. Create IP Pool for user

ip local pool poolipnetconfig 172.31.1.1 172.31.1.6

7. Test your configuration

Complete configuration on Cisco router:

L2TP-Server#sh run
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 5669 bytes
!
version 12.4
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption
!
hostname L2TP-Server
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
enable secret 5 $1$WMq0$BZpIxsWnzmEI0fCvWADGd0
!
aaa new-model
!
!
aaa authentication login default local
aaa authentication ppp default local
aaa authorization exec default local
!
aaa session-id common
!
resource policy
!
ip cef
!
!
!
!
ip domain name ipnetconfigs.com
ip name-server 192.168.0.1
ip ssh version 2
vpdn enable
!
vpdn-group L2TP
! Default L2TP VPDN group
accept-dialin
protocol l2tp
virtual-template 1
no l2tp tunnel authentication
!
!
!
!
crypto pki trustpoint TP-self-signed-417945430
enrollment selfsigned
subject-name cn=IOS-Self-Signed-Certificate-417945430
revocation-check none
rsakeypair TP-self-signed-417945430
!
!
crypto pki certificate chain TP-self-signed-417945430
certificate self-signed 01
30820257 308201C0 A0030201 02020101 300D0609 2A864886 F70D0101 04050030
30312E30 2C060355 04031325 494F532D 53656C66 2D536967 6E65642D 43657274
69666963 6174652D 34313739 34353433 30301E17 0D313030 33313331 30303434
375A170D 32303031 30313030 30303030 5A303031 2E302C06 03550403 1325494F
532D5365 6C662D53 69676E65 642D4365 72746966 69636174 652D3431 37393435
34333030 819F300D 06092A86 4886F70D 01010105 0003818D 00308189 02818100
CBB11B58 6E347C78 1FB62626 0FD03CCB 5AA26CC3 A0E17634 B905978F DF0FCA60
2A8CD0EE 1BF4428A 53F23038 7BF8C209 B0FEF57B 08233D2C F49826BB 938113DE
C6D25DD0 E8AA51B0 F4BAE931 0C4C19A6 7657EB6F 4A0CF980 92C54B48 F927BF00
1E3F25E1 A28EA8F6 B941BC0A E6F2FA20 6A73F969 A8B523F0 0B25C927 85C649BD
02030100 01A38180 307E300F 0603551D 130101FF 04053003 0101FF30 2B060355
1D110424 30228220 50504A2D 47572E6C 61646F6D 61696E2E 6C696E74 61736172
74612E63 6F2E6964 301F0603 551D2304 18301680 14167006 97518BA4 E4F9BA7A
82A17511 CE1A4870 8B301D06 03551D0E 04160414 16700697 518BA4E4 F9BA7A82
A17511CE 1A48708B 300D0609 2A864886 F70D0101 04050003 8181006B D63609D0
F61D11FF FB4CC38C 231FA679 B6A3AD68 DF7BEDC3 CCE85778 5D7E4FE7 ADFA6A8B
4BBDED0F 20137B37 C445F0D9 14E55313 2553284B DCB49472 3E56BF3D 140F3E58
047833BD 4F6D0719 29233D33 8F681B69 613FF4A5 B527E059 06B655E3 06BBFA37
B3F43E6B 67DF84DF 5D3B0FC9 ECFB16E3 9AB4E1F1 D61D0523 A95A44
quit
username root privilege 15 secret 5 $1$E1t3$.GKaPz1xFuph9r/fRqxTO.
!
!
!
crypto isakmp policy 10
encr 3des
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 3600
crypto isakmp key cisco address 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 no-xauth
crypto isakmp keepalive 3600
!
!
crypto ipsec transform-set ipnetconfig esp-3des esp-sha-hmac
mode transport
!
crypto dynamic-map ipnetconfig-map 10
set nat demux
set transform-set ipnetconfig
!
!
crypto map cisco 10 ipsec-isakmp dynamic ipnetconfig-map
!
!
!
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
crypto map cisco
!
interface FastEthernet0/1
no ip address
duplex auto
speed auto
!
!
interface Virtual-Template1
ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0
peer default ip address pool poolipnetconfig
ppp encrypt mppe 40
ppp authentication ms-chap-v2
!
!
ip local pool poolipnetconfig 172.31.1.1 172.31.1.6
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1
!
!
ip http server
ip http secure-server
!
!
!
!
control-plane
!
!
line con 0
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
!
scheduler allocate 20000 1000
end

L2TP-Server#

For configuring L2TP IPSec on Windows 7, see my other post on this blog.

Configure L2TP IPSec Client On Windows 7

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This post will describe how to create VPN Client using L2TP and IPSec on Windows 7.

1. Go to Control Panel --> Network and Sharing Center. Choose Set up new connection or network. Click Next.

2. Choose Connect to a workplace

3. Choose create new connection. Click Next.

4. Choose Use My Internet Connection (VPN).

5. Fill IP Address of your VPN Server and the name of connection. Click Next.

6. Fill user name and password of your connection. Click Connect.

After this point, you still cannot connect to your VPN Server. You need to configure pre-shared key for IPSec.

7. Open Control Panel --> Network and Sharing Center. Choose Change Adapter Setting

8. Right click your VPN connection, choose Properties.

9. On your VPN Properties, click Security Tab, on Type of VPN, choose Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol With IPSec (L2TP/IPSec). On Data Encryption, choose Require encryption. Click Advanced settings.

10. On Advanced Properties, L2TP section, choose Used preshared key for authentication. Click OK.

11. Click OK again. You can now test your connection using L2TP and IPSec VPN.

Configure PPTP Client On Windows 7

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This post will describe how to create VPN Client using PPTP on Windows 7.

1. Go to Control Panel --> Network and Sharing Center. Choose Set up new connection or network. Click Next.