Cisco ASA/PIX Connections flags

Flags:

A – awaiting inside ACK to SYN

a – awaiting outside ACK to SYN

B – initial SYN from outside

b – TCP state-bypass or nailed

C – CTIQBE media

D – DNS

d – dump

E – outside back connection

F – outside FIN

f – inside FIN

G – group

g – MGCP

H – H.323

h – H.225.0

I – inbound data

i – incomplete

J – GTP

j – GTP data

K – GTP t3-response

k – Skinny media

M – SMTP data

m – SIP media

n – GUP

O – outbound data

P – inside back connection

p – Phone-proxy TFTP connection

q – SQL*Net data

R – outside acknowledged FIN

R – UDP SUNRPC

r – inside acknowledged FIN

S – awaiting inside SYN

s – awaiting outside SYN

T – SIP

t – SIP transient

U – up

V – VPN orphan

W – WAAS

X – inspected by service module

Cisco ASA/PIX Connections flags

Get external IP on linux machine/workstation

To get external/real IP of a linux server/workstation, just use below command

curl -s http://whatismijnip.nl |cut -d ” ” -f 5

just let’s hope above URL remains up forever

Ref: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22615/how-can-i-get-my-external-ip-address-in-bash

Get external IP on linux machine/workstation

Windows Update service unable to start, Error 0x8007277a

Today after finish upgrading PC to windows 8.1, I found windows update service not started.

When i tried to start it, it prompt “Windows could not start the Windows Update service on Local Computer“, “Error 0x8007277a: The Requested service provider could not be loaded or initialized

I just kept searching internet and running below commands in elevated command prompt solved the issue easily,

netsh winsock reset hit enter
netsh int ipv4 reset hit enter
netsh int ipv6 reset hit enter

Then just restart windows and everything went fine

Ref: http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/342030-cannot-open-windows-update-error-0x8007277a.html?s=9b1a0a66635d4e976e117fb1353c142f

Windows Update service unable to start, Error 0x8007277a