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Tag: networking

  • Working with Ancient Network Equipment (or: Getting Around Old SSL and TLS Versions)

    The Problem At work, I recently had to dig out an old NETGEAR SRX5308 ProSAFE Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (that’s a mouthful) for a very specific scenario (try shotgunning four LTE modems). Problem was, no modern browser can access the web management page due to the ancient SSLv3 standard without changes to the…

  • Ubiquiti Device Discovery Tool Outdated As Hell

    …and how to “fix” it Ubiquiti’s Discovery Tool hasn’t seen an update since 2017 — and if you try running it on a modern system, you’ll probably get this very helpful error: A Java Exception has occurred. That’s it. No stack trace, no details, just failure. Installing an ancient Java version system-wide isn’t exactly great…