Posts in “Networking”

An example of Solaris IP Multipathing, for future reference:

I’m using the Cisco VPN client, and it seems unreliable on Linux – it occasionally connects but often just gives up with “Remote peer is no longer responding”.

ipcalc – a tool I used to use years ago but had forgotten about.

The Reverand Simon Rumble wrote a nice post on [Mobile broadband over Bluetooth with Ubuntu 8.10][1] using [Blueman][2].

A post a stumbled upon – [Speed up Firefox on Linux – Disable IPv6 Lookups][1].

A good post from Glen Turner on SLUG about udev, HAL, DBUS (in the context of GSM modems):

[wicd][1] – “an open source wired and wireless network manager” – a possible replacement for Ubuntu’s annoying Network Manager (Mangler?).

[ssh][1] is normally used nowadays instead of telnet for remotely accessing Linux servers (and other devices), as telnet is an insecure plain text protocol (and passwords can be easily captured using tools like [dsniff][2]).

A useful tool I’ve come across (thanks JB) – socat. As the [homepage][1] says, sort of netcat++.

A list of useful tools for network monitoring on Linux:

A quick cheatsheet for setting up a forwarding, caching-only DNS Server on Ubuntu.

The instructions given by NoMachine for setting up on Linux are a bit thin; here’s my own version:

Whilst traveling through Mexico and Guatemala, I’ve had various problems with slow and/or faulty dns resolution.

As far as /etc/iftab goes, this is not used in Ubuntu 7.10
anymore..this functionality is moved to hotplug,. and maybe causing
your prob.

Examples:

HowTo Setup 3 Broadband Wireless on Ubuntu Linux

atheros wireless