Most home broadband connections use an ADSL router with a built-in NAT firewall. For more complex networks, the next step is to place a dedicated firewall behind your ADSL router. But there's a third way: put your ADSL device into Bridge mode. Then it's just a dumb modem, so your firewall can run the PPP session to your ISP....
Sunday, 27 September 2009
HOWTO: Native IPV6 dialup on the Mac
The world is running out of IPV4 addresses, so the transition from IPV4 to IPV6 is getting closer. Here's how to kick the tyres, if you want to try web surfing with IPV6. Dialup is just for testing of course, ADSL is next ...
Saturday, 26 September 2009
HOWTO: Send SYSLOG messages to FreeBSD
When you try to send SYSLOG messages for storage on a FreeBSD 7 server, the odds are that your messages won't appear in your log file on the first attempt. You need to get several things right...
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