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How to Add Static route in Windows XP/2000/Vista

A route describes the gateway IP address and network interface to use when sending packets to a network. The routing table on a host holds a list of destination network and the routes to those networks. This recipe describes adding entries to this routing table that will not persist following a reboot. These temporary routes [...]

Windows Server 2008 Core – Post Setup Product Activation

During installation of Windows Server 2008 Core, it is possible to complete setup without specifying the product key. This means that you have up to 30 days from the installation date to test drive the product before it goes into reduced functionality mode, similar to that in Windows Vista. In both Windows Server 2008 and [...]

Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications

The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I [...]

How DNS Works

Domain name Servers (DNS) are an important but invisible part of the internet, and form one of the largest databases on it. Each machine on an internet is assigned a unique address, called an IP address, which is 32 bit number and is expressed as 4 octets. The method user to represent these IP addresses [...]

NTLDR is Missing – Windows

Cause: Computer is booting from a non-bootable source. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32. New hard disk drive being added. Corrupt boot sector / master boot [...]

How to find hardware configuration of a Linux system

You can get the information directly from /proc, you can use lspci, etc. And if you are using X then there are many ways to show this information in a nice way. Still, I would like to show you the power of this little tool (lshw) that I found very useful if you are using [...]

How to Install Mtop (MySQL Monitoring Tool) on RHEL

Mtop is a little perl utility that shows in real time statistics of your MySQL server. It allows you to quickly identify problems related to mysql poor performance, using an interface similar to the normal ‘top’ command. If you are using Debian then the installation is trivial as mtop is in the debian packages and [...]

How to enable IP Forwarding in Linux

By default any modern Linux distributions will have IP Forwarding disabled. This is normally a good idea, as most peoples will not need IP Forwarding, but if we are setting up a Linux router/gateway or maybe a VPN server (pptp or ipsec) or just a plain dial-in server then we will need to enable forwarding. [...]

How to quickly bind a range of IPs on RedHat based systems

Normally when you add a new IP to a network interface in a RedHat based system you create a file ifcfg-eth0:x in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. For example: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 DEVICE=eth0:0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.100 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 TYPE=Ethernet Similar to the above example you can create several aliases. But what if you have to add a lot of IPs [...]

10 Nagios Web Frontends

Here is a list of 10 nagios 2.x web frontends that you might find useful if you are looking for a web interface to administer your nagios configuration. 1. Centreon / Oreon – http://www.centreon.com/ Centreon is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, it is based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine [...]

How to Disable Cacti web interface persistent mysql connections

Cacti uses for its web interface persistent mysql connections to the mysql server. Normally this is fine and you would not care about it, but if you want to disable this and make cacti use regular mysql connections (and properly close each of its open mysql calls) here is what you need to do: edit: [...]

How to Configure PIX−to−PIX−to−PIX IPSec (Hub and Spoke)

Introduction This configuration allows a central Cisco Secure PIX Firewall to communicate with networks behind two other PIX Firewall boxes through VPN tunnels over the Internet or any public network using IPsec. The two outlying networks have no need to communicate with each other, but there is connectivity to the central network. The two outlying [...]

PIX Terminology and Background Information

Cisco PIX Firewall BasicsThe following diagram shows a multi-port PIX connected to various networks. Cisco PIX Firewall Basics PIX terminology: we generally refer to the user segment as the Inside subnet. The interface connected to the Internet router is the outside subnet. As shown, we probably have DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) subnet, the subnet where we [...]

How To Install phpBB Forum in 5 Steps

Introduction to phpBB phpBB is a stable, open-source, bulletin board script available as a free download from phpbb.com [2]. It allows you to set up an unlimited number of forums and categories. Users, moderators and user groups with varying permissions can be created. In short, it provides everything you’d expect of a bulletin board service. [...]

How to Configure a Cisco Router

Configuring your Cisco Router If you have just turned on the router, it will be completely unconfigured. If it is already configured, you may want to view its current configuration. Even if it has not been previously configured, you should familiarize yourself with the show commands before beginning to configure the router. Enter privileged mode [...]