In my last post I went into the reasons why exporting the network hardware from dom0 to an unprivileged driver domain is good for security. This time the “how” is our focus. The documentation out there isn’t perfect and it could use a bit of updating so expect to see a few edits to the [...]
If you use make-kpkg to build your kernels and you’re running Lenny you may have had problems building 2.6.34 when it came out. With kernel-package version 11.015 I’m getting the following error: The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h "" does not match current version: "2.6.34" Please correct this I’m sure more recent packages have this [...]
I’ve been giving myself a crash course in Xen recently. I’ve played with Xen in the past but it’s always annoyed me that the kernel for dom0 was super old (2.6.18). Debian has always been good with their support and the 2.6.26 kernel that ships with Lenny has worked well. Now that Xen 4.0 is [...]
I’ve always used the standard dhcp3 server on my local networks (non-routable IPs). Never really knew of any other options and I didn’t look for any. As the few networks I manage have gotten larger I’ve wanted my DHCP server to be able to feed information into local DNS so I don’t have to maintain [...]
I’ve been wanting to set up a “pure” IPsec VPN using racoon for a while now. Part just for fun, part because I can. I spent a weekend on it once a while back, didn’t make much progress, got sick of trying to figure out cryptic racoon debug output and then gave up (more pressing [...]
First if you’re new to the Amazon MP3 downloader and you’re running Debian check out the howto on the Ubuntu forums. It’s very helpful. Now on to my complaints (that’s what blogs are for right?) I think it’s pretty cool that Amazon released their MP3 downloader program for Linux. That’s about the only nice thing [...]
Now that I’ve got my ALIX system up and running Lenny, it’s time to tweak the configuration. One of the things I liked best about the Voyage distribution is its use of tmpfs for the directories that receive a lot of writes to minimize the IO on the compact flash (CF) card. The reason for [...]
In my last post I linked to the howto forge article that gives detailed instructions for installing Debian on a PCEngines WRAP system. After playing with Voyage Linux on my new ALIX system (the successor to the WRAP) I decided that I would be better of going with the stock Debian Lenny (5.0). The cool [...]
Back around 2005 I was still new to Linux. I had settled into running Debian on my desktop and I needed a new project. At the time I had a crappy DLink router / access point that would get “confused” quite consistently and had to be reset. After a roommate of mine moved out and [...]
