msgbartop
I will happily conduct a FREE basic web security scan for any genuine organization interested in my services to point out whether or not I can find vulnerabilities in your application. Just contact me.
Need a PHP Programmer, PHP staff or project manager? Contact me now.
msgbarbottom

15 Sep 09 Linux DHCP Server

DHCP is an acronym for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It allows a host to broadcast a request for it’s IP settings. Hopefully, a DHCP server like the one we’ll be configuring will respond. Running tcpdump shows a dhcp request looks like:

17:26:02.003956 00:00:00:00:00:00 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype IPv4 (0×0800), length 342: 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request, length 300

Configuration is easy, to start with, just run ‘apt-get install dhcpd’
(more…)

Tags: , , , , , ,

05 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 3 – Installing Debian, Prebuilt Disk Image

Follow on from 01 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 2

The device runs a 2.4.30 kernel on a debian woody (mipsel) environment. If anyone can contribute anything for 2.6.x and debian etch, that would be great.

In this part, I’m going to provide a download link to a prebuilt image which you can write directly onto your own CF card with dd or similar tool. I’m also going to provide a step by step to installing debian yourself without my prebuilt disk image.

Prebuilt image is here:

The prebuilt image also contains a number of scripts and tools that I’ll comment on and come to in later parts.

Now installation instructions:
(more…)

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,