Tcpdump is a useful tool to capture network packets on a Linux, UNIX, BSD, etc. system. It is nice, however,
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Author: Phil Lavin
I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage (an Ericsson company). I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings.
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Home Servers – The shit under my stairs
I get asked a lot about the shit under my stairs. It’s not particularly interesting, but I thought I should
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How to use Netcat – a Netcat tutorial
Netcat is an open source utility which allows you to easily pipe data across a network. You can use it
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DNS – Understanding it helps to debug it
The key to working out what’s going on with your DNS is understanding how it works. DNS can be deceptive,
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Website holding pages – always use them
If you have an idea for a website and you’re confident you’re going to go through with it, always buy
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Quick Fix: Filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)
This error can be seen in your mail client and is often caused by Courier. If you are the system
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Bash script – read stdin line by line
There are lots of ways to achieve this in Bash. Below are the two most common: Process Substitution This approach
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BT’s UK FTTC (VDSL2/Infinity) Explained
I realise that the title of this article is a bunch of acronyms, but it’s going to be informative none
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D-Link DSL-320B: A truly awful modem
The irony of this post is that, only a few days ago, I was singing the praises of the D-Link
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Maximum transmission unit (MTU) explained
The maximum transmission unit (MTU) is a term used in data networking and refers to the maximum size of a
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