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How To Install Python Module for Google Data API Services on Fedora

Recent repetitive job for the past several days triggers my subtle and sleeping mind from doing another playful hobby. Just a thought, I have convinced myself, to do some boring but interesting play, atleast give Google API a try.That is, manage and administer Google data like Blogger posts via Google Data API connecting locally using [...]

How To Install PHPMyAdmin on Fedora 9

phpMyAdmin is an opensource tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL database and table over the web. Currently, phpmyadmin can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is being distributed in more than 50 [...]

How To Install and Configure Caching DNS on Fedora

BIND DNS are nameservers responsible basically for resolving domain names or hostnames into their equivalent IP addresses. Websites or domain names have their own equivalent IP addresses that are usually managed and provided by the same website firms. If somebody is browsing a website from his browser, this website is being resolved, looked up and [...]

How to Choose One Linux Distributions

While there are certainly many versions (“distributions”) of Linux to choose from, picking one that is right for you can be straightforward as long as you know your needs and are willing to do some research. – The balance act: Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat and Fedora Linux, Mandriva Linux, and SuSE Linux offer reliability, flexibility, [...]

Linux, the Ultimate Unix – Advantages

Low cost: You don’t need to spend time and money to obtain licenses since Linux and much of its software come with the GNU General Public License. You can start to work immediately without worrying that your software may stop working anytime because the free trial version expires. Additionally, there are large repositories from which [...]

Some of the best Useful Linux commands

Useful commands for the Linux command line This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line. arch Outputs the processor architecture. $ arch i686 cat Outputs the contents of a file. $ cat lorem.txt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut [...]

Step by step Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) setup in Vista

Vista lets you share your Internet connection with other computers on your network. Logically enough, the feature that lets you do this is called Internet Connection Sharing, which gets abbreviated to ICS. ICS can be a great way of saving time and money: instead of needing a modem and a phone line (or a DSL [...]

How to configure policy nat on ASA 5520

To gain access from one internal segment to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ ), configure the Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) for natting. To preserve the packet and assure that natting is bypassed, a no nat statement with an Access Control List (ACL) must be configured. This is performed when the administrator does not want natting to [...]

How to configure the DHCP relay feature on the PIX firewall

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) daemon must be enabled to listen for DHCP client requests. When the PIX Firewall acts as a DHCP server, PIX provides network configuration parameters to DHCP clients. Dynamically assigned IP addresses are an example for network configuration parameters. These configuration parameters provide a DHCP client with the networking parameters [...]

How to configure inbound connections to multiple servers using only a single global address- Cisco Pix.

Configure static Port Address Translation (PAT) on the PIX. Starting with PIX Software version 6.0, the PIX can be configured to translate ports destined to a single global IP address to multiple internal servers. One place this would be useful is if you only have a single IP address available from your ISP, but your [...]

How to configure MS-Exchange connectivity through a PIX/ASA

To configure MS-Exchange connectivity through a PIX Firewall, perform the following steps: 1. Create the static translation for the MS-Exchange server inside address so it can be seen by its public routable address from the outside. Traffic received by the PIX on the outside address of the MS-Exchange server is translated by the PIX and [...]

How to configure the VPN tunnel to allow only specific ports/protocols on the PIX/Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)

By default, the security appliance allows IPsec packets to bypass interface access control lists (ACLs). In order to allow specific traffic for a VPN tunnel, apply interface access lists. Complete these steps (apart from the basic VPN configuration) on the PIX/ASA: 1. Use the no form of these commands in order to disable sysopt connection [...]

How to configure the PIX/ASA Firewall to block IM services

In many cases, it is necessary to block connectivity to Instant Messaging (IM) services, such as AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, and ICQ. In order to accomplish this, block the ports that those clients use. Ports used by IM services are dynamic. You can block the IP addresses and the port numbers used by [...]

How to configure the PIX Firewall to pass traffic without NAT

There are the two ways to allow traffic to pass through the PIX Firewall without translating the source address: * Issue the no nat command. The nat (inside) 0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 command allows traffic to pass from the inside to the outside without translating the source addresses, but this version of the nat 0 command [...]

How to Configure and build bonding in Linux

Most popular distro kernels ship with the bonding driver already available as a module and the ifenslave user level control program installed and ready for use. If your distro does not, or you have need to compile bonding from source (e.g., configuring and installing a mainline kernel from kernel.org), you’ll need to perform the following [...]