Break the Switch into separated ethernet ports / VLANs

At first ... I'm not responsible, if you brick your router by using this documentation. If your fear it would be possible, stop HERE! The following NVRAM-Settings need to take place: > !/bin/sh Port 0 into WAN, 5 Router themselv nvram set vlan1hwname=et0 nvram set vlan1ports="…

Implementing fax and vbox server with capisuite and FaxGW

Capisuite [http://www.capisuite.org/] is a fax and voicebox solution for capi on linux. I'm using it with a Fritz!Card 2.0 on debian. Assuming a working capi card, you only need: # apt-get install capisuite Then you need to customize capisuite.conf, fax.conf and answering_…

Installing an AVM Fritz!Card 2.0

At first ... put the Card in! :-) Next I installed the following packages and all required dependencies: # aptitude install capiutils isdnactivecards \ isdnlog isdnlog-data isdnutils-base libcapi20-2 Now I got the source of the module from AVM [ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/fritzcrd.pci/linux/suse.91/fcpci-suse9.1-3.11-02.tar.gz]…

Openwrt migration

Since the Linksys firmware for the WRT54G isn't really flexible and the Sveasoft firmware sucks cause this license issues I migrated all my boxes to Openwrt [http://openwrt.org]. Openwrt is a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages ... this makes it more flexible for personal use. At…

Getting started with Subversion

Today I thought about how to have different revisions of my project documentation which is a condition precedent to my degree. After weighting up CVS [https://www.cvshome.org/] and Subversion [http://subversion.tigris.org/] I decided to use Subversion. It wasn't such short like it looks here…

BIND chrooted on Debian Sarge

# /etc/init.d/bind9 stop We need to edit /etc/default/bind9 to run the daemon as the unprivileged user bind and chrooted to /var/lib/named, change the content to > OPTS="-u bind -t /var/lib/named". Creating all directories under /var/lib: # mkdir -p /var/…