New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target) Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target) This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. AoE stands for “ATA over Ethernet” and [...]
Hi, this article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver – in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Find out active IPs in a Linux LAN If you are on a LAN and wish to find out which computers in it currently have access to that certain LAN, you can use the following command: for ip in $(seq 1 254); do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Three ways to securely access remote internal networks and work from home Remote access to a computer and internal network’s secured resources – all of it in a simple way that’s following well-known security’s best practices? Sounds impossible, but it’s not. How to achieve it explains Bartosz Feński aka [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Building a Business Network Using Ubuntu – Introduction This post begins the first (an introduction) in a series of several posts, discussing the benefits that Ubuntu Linux provides to business owners. Naturally, by default, I’ll be touching on several open source applications and server packages throughout the series. Hopefully [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to setup NetworkManager work with pppoe connection on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) When Ubuntu 9.10 releases, pppoe connection via NetworkManager is impossible because some bug in it so to fix this we will install network manager from daily network manager trunk ppa. Link to the original site
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. IP Management With PHPIP Phpip is annbsp;IPnbsp;Management tool which helps to manage your network with the detailed information of your client or network IP at the distributed point. This is basically useful for ISPs as well asnbsp;large networks. Link to the original site
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Speeding up dynamic websites via an nginx proxy Many of us are familiar with the use of Apache for hosting websites. It might not be the fastest webserver but it is extraordinarily popular, extremely flexible, and a great choice for most people. However there are times when it can [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. DNS (Domain name system) may not be known to most people who use the Internet but it is the real invisible force driving the Internet without which everyone would be seeing numbers and IPs. The whole meaning of domain names exists today just because of DNS./p Link to the [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Network Monitoring Appliance table align=left cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=42 height=40 style=margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;trtdimg class=teaser-image-odd src=http://images.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/ubuntu.gif width=39 height=40 alt= //td/tr/tablepbNetwork Monitoring Appliance/b/p pMy ambition was to implement a small (better tiny) appliance for monitoring network health and network resources, short and longtime trends, running under VMware Server or VMware ESX. So I had [...]
I remember when network-manager first came out. It was the most welcome piece of software I could imagine! The idea that a graphical tool would manage my wireless networks for me, display available SSIDs and signal strength and basically just keep me online with minimal work on my part. It sure beat the dark magic [...]
This tutorial will explain how to connect to a WPA (1-2) wireless network without installing any graphical tool. I assume that your wireless drivers are activated in the kernel and that your card is detected in Linux with the command: ifconfig -a Mine is identified by wlan0 but that may change for you. For Intel [...]
A diminishing few of us can still remember a time when you had to talk on a phone whose handset was tethered to the phone itself with a six foot cord. Forget about pacing around the house, let alone having a conversation while gardening in the backyard. It’s almost just as quaint now to think [...]
OpenSSH is a great means to protect your connection from being sniffed by others. However, this isn’t always enough. Simply proving that you connected to a server is enough to get incriminated. Unfortunately, SSH doesn’t provide a native way to obfuscate to whom it connects. Instead, a proxy server can be set up. And this [...]
Like many people who aren’t able to get DSL, I use mobile broadband. Typically, at least in Ireland and the UK, you are forced to purchase a modem with your contract. What if you want other devices in your house to use this broadband and you don’t want to fork out several hundred wing wangs [...]