'linux' Category
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Switching from MacBook Pro to an ASUS EeePC
December 3, 2008Well, the display on my Macbook Pro finally decided to die on me, for no apparent reason (I was just sitting in bed, listening to some music when it died). So, I decided that rather than pay for a repair, I’d continue to use the MacBook as a desktop with an external display, and get […]
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aimsnarf version 0.11 released
November 12, 2007Yea yea, I know, it’s only been a few hours since the first release. Well, here’s the new release with a couple of major todos taken care of: Download the script here. Read about aimsnarf in the previous post about it. Changes in this version: Trillian is now supported, as well as AOL’s AIM client. […]
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Introducing ‘aimsnarf.rb’ => A simple AIM sniffing tool written in Ruby
November 12, 2007[UPDATE 11/13/07] : version 0.11 released Firstly, download the script here. aimsnarf.rb is a small (~200 lines) Ruby script that I’ve written to sniff and dump AOL IM messages to STDOUT. I wrote this an as alternative to aimsniff, because I really dislike having to install aimsniff and all of it’s dependancies when all I […]
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Enabling IPv6 on Cisco 3750 and Solaris/Linux/Windows
July 30, 2007Alright, lately one of my goals for this quarter is to get our lab working over IPv6 in addition to IPv4 for testing some of our software. Here’s a quick rundown on how to enable ipv6 on *most* cisco switches and Solaris, Linux and Windows. Enable IPv6 on *most* Cisco switches (I used a 3750): […]
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All I tried to do was connect the Clariion agent…
June 21, 2007Here’s something that doesn’t make me happy to see: [root@lava2054 ~]# tail /var/log/messages Segmentation fault [root@lava2054 ~]# dmesg -bash: dmesg: command not found [root@lava2054 ~]# sync;reboot -bash: sync: command not found reboot: error while loading shared libraries: libattr.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Ack. *runs off to find the problem* […]
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Tutorial: Sniffing iSCSI traffic for a spoofing attack
June 21, 2007Also known as “Why you need some kind of iSCSI security” Okay, after reading Himanshu Dwivedi’s presentation[PDF] on iSCSI security (insecure-SCSI hur hur hur) I decided to try and replicate one of the attacks that he mentioned in the presentation. Following is how I managed to get the data shown of a different machine. Firstly, […]
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DRBD and Heartbeat for high availability on Linux
June 18, 2007I’ve been trying to get a HA solution put together for one of our software projects here at EMC and I figured I’d share the configuration of these two products in the environment that we’re using. I have to write the documentation for it anyway, so I might as well post it here for everyone […]
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Ian Murdock at OpenSolaris users group
June 5, 2007So I read quite a few Solaris blogs and when this popped up this morning I decide to take a look (warning, the movie that the post links to is >500 megs) I had expected to hear a pretty good discussion around the “linuxification” of Solaris and how Ian Murdock plans to approach it, turns […]
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Linux firewall configuration
May 17, 2007Basic iptables firewall conf only letting ssh and DNS through: # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.11 on Thu May 17 14:52:04 2007 *filter :INPUT DROP [13164:946396] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT DROP [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m state –state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -s 128.222.228.235 […]