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All Techclick Courses & Pricing (Student-Friendly) — Learn on ai.techclick.in
Complete Techclick course list with transparent pricing: free lessons, ₹399 membership, ₹10,000 live trainings, ₹30,000 combo, ₹25,000 interview/migration tracks — plus student-friendly labs on ai.techclick.in.
Aug 24


Firewall Migration, Cloud Security Deployment & Hands-On Training: Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Forescout & Google AI Agents
End-to-end firewall migration, on-premises to cloud deployment, and configuration for Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, and Forescout—plus hands-on training and Google AI agent implementation.
Aug 24


Proofpoint TAP Click Rewrite Breaks a Vendor Link: Decode Before You Allowlist the World
Proofpoint rewrites URLs. Some vendors sign the original URL and reject the rewritten one. Decode and add a targeted rewrite exception. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Aruba ClearPass Enforcement Miss: Access Tracker When the Switch Ignores the VLAN
Accept is RADIUS. The switch must apply the RFC 2868 attributes. Wrong dictionary or a local override leaves VLAN 1. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Meraki MX Site-to-Site Down: Event Log and Local Status Page When the Dashboard Is Green-ish
Internet for Meraki cloud is not the same as Auto VPN to HQ. Use the local status page and event log for VPN registration. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Cisco Umbrella Domain Allow Miss: nslookup When the Same PC Has Two Resolvers
Umbrella only sees DNS it receives. A second resolver or a DoH browser bypasses your allow. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


CyberArk PSM Connect Fail: After Auth When the Jump Never Starts
PSM is a jump. Check the PSM server service, the connector account, and RDP/SSH from PSM to the target — not the user's laptop to the target. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Barracuda WAF False 403: Logs When a Header or Upload Limit Fires
WAF logs name the rule (header length, JSON profile, file limit). Exception that URL/parameter. Do not put the VIP in bypass. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Asymmetric Routing: two captures When SYN Leaves One Firewall and SYN-ACK Hits Another
Stateful firewalls drop the stray SYN-ACK. Draw both directions. Fix routing or enable state sharing. Do not add more allows. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Forescout NAC VLAN Miss: Switch SNMP/CLI When the Host Stays in Quarantine
Forescout must be able to change the port (SNMP/CLI/RADIUS CoA). Compliance without a switch action leaves the old VLAN. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


MTU Black Hole: ping -M do -s 1472 When One Path Dies and Small Packets Live
A device is dropping DF large packets and not sending ICMP need-to-frag. Clamp MSS or fix MTU. This is the classic black hole. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


CrowdStrike Isolate Too Wide: When a Containment Breaks AD for a Whole VLAN
Containment cuts the host off except to the Falcon cloud. If that host was a path or a license server, the blast radius is bigger than one laptop. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Prisma Access GlobalProtect Portal Reachable, Apps Dead: Service Connection Check
Prisma Access needs a healthy service connection / service connection to the DC. User tunnel up is not DC reachability. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Cloudflare 522 Connection Timed Out: Origin Port and Allowlist When the Orange Cloud Hangs
522 means Cloudflare could not TCP to origin. Origin firewall must allow Cloudflare IP ranges, and the origin port must match. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Linux nftables Drop: nft list ruleset When ping Works and TCP Dies
Cloud NSG is not the guest firewall. nft list ruleset. A default drop on input explains everything. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


DNS Timeout Only on One VLAN: dig +trace When the Forwarder Is the Fault
dig from a VLAN 40 host. If it times out to the forwarder but works when pointed at 8.8.8.8, the path to the corporate DNS is filtered or the helper is wrong. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


BGP Local-Pref vs MED: show ip bgp When the 'Wrong' ISP Still Wins
Outbound path is local-pref, weight, then AS-path, then MED. MED does not choose your exit unless those are equal. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


OSPF Type-5 Missing: show ip ospf database external When Redistribution Is Silent
Type-5 only exists if the ASBR actually redistributes and the area is not a stub/NSSA without translation. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Redistribution Loop: show ip route When Two Protocols Bounce the Same Prefix
Mutual redistribution without tags or filters loops. Tag on the way out, deny tagged on the way back. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


EIGRP Stuck-Active: show ip eigrp topology When a Query Never Comes Home
Stuck-in-Active means a query was not answered. Find the neighbor that did not reply and fix that link or stub it. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Wireshark TCP Retransmissions: Expert Info When Users Say 'The Internet Is Slow'
Expert Information > Retransmissions and Dup ACKs. If they cluster one way, that path is dropping. It is not 'the internet'. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


tcpdump Sees Nothing on the Right Host: -i any and Offload Before You Blame the Firewall
Wrong interface, NIC offload, or you filtered the NAT'd address. Use -i any first, then turn off GRO/TSO for the capture. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


BGP Neighbor Idle on Cisco IOS: show ip bgp summary When TCP 179 Never Starts
Idle is no TCP. Check update-source, neighbor IP reachability, and whether you are sourcing from the wrong loopback. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


OSPF Stuck in EXSTART: show ip ospf neighbor When MTU Kills the Adjacency
EXSTART that never finishes is almost always MTU. ip ospf mtu-ignore is a bandage; matching MTU is the fix. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Azure Firewall DNAT Miss: az network firewall policy When the Public IP Is Dead
DNAT needs a matching network rule, the right firewall public IP, and SNAT/return through the firewall. Policy hierarchy can hide a deny. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Azure Private Endpoint DNS Split-Brain: nslookup When the App Still Hits the Public IP
Private endpoints need the privatelink DNS zone linked to the VNet. Without it, the public name never flips. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Azure Application Gateway 502: Backend Health CLI When the Listener Is Fine
502 is backend health. Probe path, host header, or NSG from the gateway subnet is wrong. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Azure WAF Custom Rule Overblock: az network application-gateway waf-policy When a Header Is Blocked
Custom rules evaluate first. A sloppy contains() on a header will 403 a partner. List the custom rules before you disable OWASP. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Azure VPN Gateway BGP Down: az network vnet-gateway When On-Prem Prefixes Vanish
Connected is IKE. BGP is a second session on the tunnel. If BGP is down, Azure has no prefixes unless you also have traffic selectors. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Azure NSG Effective Rules Lie: az network nic list-effective-nsg When a VM Is Dark
A NIC NSG, a subnet NSG, and an Application Security Group all stack. list-effective-nsg is the only merged view. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15


Cisco ASA Failover Standby Not Ready: show failover When the Cable Looks Fine
show failover details the interface that is failed. A monitored data interface down keeps standby Failed even if LAN failover is up. Techclick CLI lab: symptoms, commands, traps, and proof.
Aug 15
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