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Howto determine serial numbers for cisco router and Catalyst switch

Posted by Admin on August 9th, 2009

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For Cisco Routers

If you want to know the chassis serial number for your router use the following command
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Back up & Data recovery Hard Drive Recovery
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Howto use downloaded ISOs as a repository in Debian

Posted by Admin on August 4th, 2009

Instead of inserting (or even burning) multiple CDs to install software in debian you can just use the downloaded ISOs.
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IT Security CEH Training Videos
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Step by Step tutorial howto compile kernel in Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Posted by Admin on July 28th, 2009

This tutorial will explain Howto compile kernel in Debian 5.0.The default kernel that comes with Debian is better suited for servers. It’s optimized for high thoughput and low interactivity. When you compile your own, you can among other things optimize it for the processor(s) you have.
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Howto remove NSM Configuration from a Juniper Firewall

Posted by Admin on July 22nd, 2009

This tutorial will explain howto remove NSM (Netscreen security manager) configuration from a juniper firewall

There are two options on how to remove the device from NSM. Either simply disable the NSM Agent on the device while leaving the configuration on the device, or remove the NSM configuration completely.
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Anonymous SSH sessions with TOR

Posted by Vincent Wochnik on July 18th, 2009

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 is where TOR comes to play. This howto covers installing TOR on a Debian based system and setting up SSH to use TOR.
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iotop – simple top-like I/O monitor

Posted by Admin on July 13th, 2009

iotop does for I/O usage what top does for CPU usage. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel (requires 2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. Handy for answering the question “Why is my disk churning so much?”.
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