August 28th, 2008 by Stargazer
pfSense vs simple Router
Network management can be quite amazing for the end user – believe me. I could see it during the last days as I have had to replace one of the old Zyxel routers. For being able to manage the traffic I have decided to use the pfSense firewall as it’s able to do NTP, DNS, Proxy services and DHCP.
Since I have replaced the old router, most users think that we have upgraded the Internet connection, which isn’t true at all – but how come?
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If it takes some more time
April 25th, 2008 by Stargazer
… it was usually me doing fancy stuff on the network. Yesterday my blog was unreachable due to firewall maintenance. Yep, I have finally implemented the Netscreen Juniper and threw the old box away.
I know, it is cruel replacing an old BSD box with an appliance, but it was the only way of reducing noise and power consumption.
Tags: firewall, network, security
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What if an interface starts up?
October 1st, 2007 by Stargazer
What happens if you bring up an interface using an init script on gentoo? Do you know? Already figured out how to start services depending on what interface is up/down?
The gentoo-way is done in /etc/conf.d/net.
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Spamassassin for Webpages?
June 29th, 2007 by Stargazer
I think I should look for another hobby as having bad ideas and trying them out can be quite time intensive. But here is an idea I put to code lately. What is the best spam killer for free? Spamassassin. Can’t we abuse it for spam checking on webpages? Let’s find out.
Tags: blogging, idea, network, spam
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No more power loss
June 1st, 2007 by Stargazer
Since yesterday I got a brand new APC 3000 UPS installed in the basement to protect my servers and stuff there. Installing the hardware itself was rather simple. The management software was a big bugger as it wanted me to have X11 on a server. A graphical user interface on a file- or mailserver??
Thanks to the guys who invented the acpupsd…
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