May 31, 2007 · Networking · 22 comments

Feisty has a terrible boot time on laptops compared to server (roughly 3x as long) even though it is a faster computer. You can speedup your boot time from over a minute to roughly 30 seconds by doing the following

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May 4, 2007 · Networking · 10 comments

When you try to login using ssh some users might find asking for ssh password is slow here is the solution how to fix this problem.

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April 28, 2007 · Networking · 1 comment

If you have Intel cards with broken EEPROM / e100 driver you need to try this fix

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February 24, 2007 · Networking · 10 comments

PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.

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February 7, 2007 · Monitoring, Networking · 8 comments

Darkstat is a network statistics gatherer.Effectively, it's a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics,and serves them over HTTP.

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