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How to setup and install TFTP server

The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is normally used only for booting diskless workstations. The tftp-server package provides the server for TFTP, which allows users to transfer files to and from a remote machine. TFTP provides very little security, and should not be enabled unless it is expressly needed. The TFTP server is run from [...]

How To Scan DNS BIND Conf File For Errors On Fedora

What is BIND? BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly. When [...]

How To Selectively Archive and Backup MBox/IMAP Mails Using ArchiveMail

What is Archivemail? Archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes. Archivemail can move specific and/or group of mbox/imap email messages older than the specified number of days to a separate mbox format mailbox that is compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email or simply archive [...]

How to Install IfTop Bandwidth Monitoring Tool

Here’s another bandwidth monitoring tool from linux console. Iftop is another console-based bandwidth monitoring tool available from linux. Iftop offers more feature that can be quite useful on monitoring bandwidth from console terminal. When executed, this bandwidth monitoring tool displays source and destination hosts currently passing thru its current selected interface(s).  Iftop can also display ports [...]

How to Install IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool

IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility and IP LAN monitoring tool for Linux. IPTraf gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool IPTraf supports a wide variety of network statistics and [...]

How to Install Bandwidth Shaper – Trickle on Fedora

Shaping bandwidth traffic has been a usual part of job function from any IT company infrastructure providing online services to the web. From small scale company to enterprise scale, bandwidth shaping needs to be implemented and applied properly and effectively. Here’s one lightweight linux traffic shaper that makes use of existing network traffic shaping that [...]

How to Enable PortMap on Fedora 8

Looking for portmap rpm package in Fedora 8? How to recover and install portmap on Fedora 7 and Fedora 8? Have you lost or uninstalled your portmap package on Fedora 7/8? Does your NFS service handing due to deactivated portmap service? Are you experiencing weird start up problems with your NFS? What is Portmap? Portmap [...]

How to Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer

Password Sniffer on Linux? Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis. However, those two words are being mentioned here and [...]

How to install Filezilla 3.0

As we all know, Filezilla has been around for quite some time and had proven to be very stable, flexibile and reliable FTP linux application – with multiple major features a FTP user is seeking for. Filezilla does not only transfer files using the traditional file transfer mode, but it makes use of multi-threading live [...]

How to Disable IPv6 Completely

Disabling IPv6 protocol is only recommended if your network is not using IPv6 IP addresses and/or you are not offering any IPb6-based host services. I have heard stories about IPv4-based networks making their network a little bit slower than normal when IPv6 IP address is being enabled from their hosts. If you wish to disable [...]

How to verify firewall ACLs and router rule sets using Linux

Core routers and firewall gateways are usually comprised of basic and extended access control lists including rule sets that define local network security level and control access. They are commonly implemented on gateway routers restricting hosts, protocols and port access to other host or networks located after their default gateways. Basically, routers and default gateways [...]

How To Setup and Install Robusts and Highly Configurable BackupPC

Considering the high-end rising PCs and storage capacity nowadays, it is now practical and cost effective to do backup management and administration to server’s local or network storage disk, not like decades ago where you would buy a very costly tape backup drive to backup small enteprise scaled data. This is where we cover BackupPC. [...]

How To Allow and Deny SSH Access To Selected Hosts and IP Addresses

With default OpenSSH installation, SSH allows access to any clients. This retriction can be configured to allow SSH access only to certain hosts and IP addresses to decrease unauthorized SSH login attempts to known and particular computer hosts and IP addresses only. SSH Access Restrictions via TCP Wrapper Step One 1. Backup and modify /etc/hosts.allow [...]

How To Mount Remote Folder Location Via SSHFS

File transfers between hosts can be secured by using SSH protocol. Transferring files from current to remote location can easily be done from terminal using the scp linux command. However, it would be more convenient to have those remote folders and files be mounted locally from our own drive and access them locally using a [...]

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 [...]