A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2007-08-24 through 2007-08-25:

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) troubleshooting: Simple approach - If you are a new BGP operator, this is a good place to start learning BGP troubleshooting techniques.
Snort - the de facto standard for intrusion detection/prevention - If you are interested in intrusion detection, give Snort a [...]

Categories: Tech Messages

You might have a situation where you have multiple network segments utilizing DHCP to assign IP addresses, name servers, etc. DHCP clients use network broadcasts to alert a DHCP server to their presence. Once a request for an address has been made, the DHCP server responds with another broadcast. It’s obvious from [...]

Categories: Networking

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2007-08-22 through 2007-08-23:

LinkRank Visualization - This is a fun tool. I’m not sure it currently is of much use to the average BGP operator, but it’s a really neat concept.
WriteCustomCondition - RT Wiki - If you are thinking of doing anything advanced with RT scrips, you’ll [...]

Categories: Tech Messages

I’m trying a slight feature change. Instead of listing all security updates for a single product or company on one page, I’m going to try including all security updates in one daily wrap-up. Let me know what you think of this idea.

Red Hat, Inc.
RHSA-2007:0860 Moderate: tar security update
This update addresses a symlink path [...]

Categories: Security Updates

Anyone that has spent any time with Best Practical’s RT: Request Tracker knows that it is a leader in the open-source ticketing system market. It is both robust and highly configurable. I’ve used several systems for incident, trouble, and bug tracking over the last 10+ years, but RT is by far my favorite. [...]

Categories: Software