Once in a while I need to use point-to-point T1 links to connect two sites. Even in today’s world of broadband, a T1 still has lower latency and a higher “upload” rate than VPN over broadband accounts. Here’s how to configure two old Portmaster 3’s to connect back to back:
Side A:
set line1 t1
set line1 clock [...]
I never really managed to wrap my head around Linux iptables. I can understand pf in BSD without trying too hard, but iptables is in a world of its own. Since I spend most of my time using Cisco routers, there’s not any real incentive for me to learn iptables for the once in a [...]
Here’s how I put a Xen DomU on a VLAN in Debian.
eth0 is connected to a trunk port on the switch, and the untagged vlan is used for dom0 connectivity. You shoud already know how to do this part. Tagged VLANs are assigned to bridge groups on the dom0. In your /etc/network/interfaces do the following:
# [...]
I have an 877W that I was learning the ins and outs of configuring IPv6 for the first time on. Sadly, I managed to brick the poor thing and left myself without internet at home (until I get the smartnet rma). Anyway, I posted my tale to the cisco-nsp list and received this helpful config [...]
I’ve been using OpenOffice on Windows lately and I must say they’ve come a long way from when I first tried it years and year ago. However, their Mac version from openoffice.org requires X11, and well, it’s not as awesome of an experience as it is on Windows.
Fortunately there’s NeoOffice which is very usable for [...]
While I’m on the topic of 3ware cards and performance issues (or lack of performance thereof) I thought I’d share this as well:
[SCSI] 3w-9xxx: fix abysmal write performance on some motherboards
The fix is as simple as grabbing the driver source from 3ware and inserting a call to pci_try_set_mwi() right after pci_set_master() as some motherboards won’t [...]
Must have missed the memo on this one:
http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=10850
line aux 0
modem InOut
transport input all
stopbits 1
speed 57600
flowcontrol hardware
I prefer using AAA for authorization instead of line passwords.