Cisco NAC guest server AD sponsor group mapping

NAC Guest Server 2.0.2 will map Sponsor User Groups to users located anywhere in AD. The Guest Server just checks the memberOf attribute of the user contained by the group name.

If your AD contains more than 1000 groups, you will need to manually enter the AD group name in the drop down box.

MS VPN Connection options grayed out

When attempting to create a new Microsoft VPN connection on MS XP Pro, I found the radio button options to select between Dial-up connection and Virtual Private Network connection are grayed out and the Next > button not available.

I found I needed to start the Remote Access Connection Manager service (previously disabled) to allow for configuration.

Translation Rules in IOS gateways

Some quick notes stolen from http://cciev.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/translation-rules-and-profiles/:

voice translation-rule 1
rule 1 /123/ /456/
rule 2 /^123/ /456/
rule 3 /^123$/ /456/
rule 4 /.*/ /456/
rule 5 /^123*/ /456/
rule 6 /^123+/ /456/
rule 7 /^123?/ /456/
rule 8 /^$/ /456/

a. rule 1 is a one to one replacement of any occurence of 123 in the source number with 456.
b. rule 2 replaces any number starting with 123 with a 456.
c. rule 3 replaces only the number 123 as the source number with 456.
d. rule 4 replaces any number with the number 456, including null.
e. rule 5 says any number that starts with 12 and has 0 or more occurence of 3 with 456.
f. rule 6 says any number that starts with 12 and has 1 or more occurence of 3 with 456
g. rule 7 says any number that starts with 12 and has 0 or 1 occurence of 3 with 456.
h. rule 8 says any number with no input digits (empty ani for example) with 456.

Misc items:
A. dot means a single digit.
B. [0-9] specifies a range
C. .* means any digit followed by zero or more occurence, virtually any digit including null
D. .+ means any digit followed by one or more occurence, virtually any digit excluding null
E. ^$ means no digits.
F. () groups digits into sets