alanguilan dot com weblog » firewall http://blog.alanguilan.com times in a tech life Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 experimental tcp http://blog.alanguilan.com/2007/09/23/experimental-tcp/ http://blog.alanguilan.com/2007/09/23/experimental-tcp/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:00:09 +0000 noel http://blog.alanguilan.com/2007/09/23/firewall/412.html i got an unusual hit on my firewall:

firewall hit: experimental tcp option

experimental tcp option found. hmm… someone is playing around with tcp.

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Touted as the “world’s most power-efficient” x86-compatible CPU, the 500MHz Via Eden ULV processor debuted at an Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei this week.

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smoothwall just released express 3.0 (polar) with lots of nice new features. the download is small (69mb for the i386 and 71mb for the 64-bit version) compared to other firewall distros.

make sure you download the installation and administrator guides and read them before doing anything.

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we moved. from one house to another. not an easy thing to do. no internet for a couple of weeks. then there’s school opening.

clark connect, smoothwall and rsync have all been keeping me quite occupied as well. offsite backup is all i can tell you.

so i’m back.

hello. :)

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the firewall‘s hard disk crashed. it didn’t even give me a warning. stupid hard disk.

its a good thing i have an extra drive (4 gig) hanging around and a recent backup of the firewall. all i have to do is install the firewall, copy the backup and untar the thing. but the rub is its a monday and mondays have this thing for me.

the firewall installer seems to be missing so i had to make a new one from the iso. after replacing the hard drive, i found out that the cd drive wasn’t working so i had to temporarily replace it with a good one. i also realized that the hard drive is really old (hey, its a 4 gig model) and it would probably go within 6 months or so.

all in all, it took me half a day wrestling with the hardware and about 15 minutes to install the firewall and restore the config from backup.

i really don’t like mondays. :evil:

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