So your Linux box has locked up and you can’t get a response… step in SysRq!
This wonderful key is on most keyboards and i bet you’ve hit it a low more times than you realise as it’s usually paired up with the PrtSc (PrintScreen) key. What does it do?
Well it allows you to send system requests to a linux kernel, effectively allowing you to bypass the usual GUI/CLI… Continue reading
So, you’ve been given a cisco config from a pix firewall using
1'show run'and you’ve looked through it and it seems a ballache to understand. We know we could use nipper but you either have to pay a wedge for the professional version of suffer with the free version.
After a little googling I found a few tools to help along the way. fwbuilder looks good but doesn’t… Continue reading
So I’m often getting asked how to set up simple networking from the command line.
This drives me nuts a simple google would get the answers!
But, now I can just point people here and save wasting my time.
STATIC The following presumes you are on a 192.168.1.n class C network with the gateway as 192.168.1.1
Linux
12345ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default gw 192.168.1.1 echo "nameserver… Continue reading