Replace NIC in IPCop 1.4.16

August 27, 2007 · Filed Under Hardware · 1 Comment 

So far your IPCop router has been working flawlessly, and all of a sudden you suffer probably the worst case scenario for a router - a port dies. Luckily, since IPCop is running off of a beige box the port is nothing more than a standard network card and can be replaced. How do you activate it once you’ve swapped them out? Read on.

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Install Bugzilla The Easy Way

August 18, 2007 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

With more and more complex code coming along at work, one thing I wanted to get set up early was a bug-tracking software. Initially I tried to install Bugzilla on a few boxes, but always ran into issues trying to get it up and running. If it wasn’t perl modules not being found in CPAN for some odd reason, it was something else.

I ran across a virtual machine prebuilt with Bugzilla installed called Virtual Bugzilla Server, from ALM Works.  Just download, extract, and run in VMWare Player or Workstation. If you are running ESX server 3.0 at work, the Virtual Bugzilla Server can be run through VMWare Converter and runs fine on ESX 3.0

Howto: Install IPCop 1.4.15 Firewall (Part 3 - Securing Your Network)

August 8, 2007 · Filed Under Hardware, Non-Programming · 2 Comments 

Now that IPCop is installed and you can access it from anywhere in the world via OpenVPN, now comes securing your network and making sure that the bad guys stay out while making sure that what goes on in your network is logged.

Read on for more.

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Web App Development - Code Reviewers and Fuzz Testing

August 8, 2007 · Filed Under Programming, Software · Comment 

I intend on writing up a tutorial showing how this works, but today I came across these two programs and used them a bit at work today. Both of these pieces of software look to help automate some of the penetration testing that I will begin doing on web applications we build, and as such look forward to more full write-ups on what these two programs can do.

Read on for info on RATS and wfuzz.

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