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Cisco PIX Configuration

Posted at September 21, 2008 2:32 pm | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

I have a Cisco PIX 501 that I’m trying to setup. I have a fairly basic network configuration (relatively) and I have everything working except remote access VPN. I want to be able to VPN home on my iPod Touch from work and school. I’m trying to do everything from the CLI rather than the PDM GUI. PAT, SSH, etc are all working so if I get the VPN going I might buy it, even though it’s an end of life device. It’s still a really nice firewall. I’ll post the config if I get it working. Otherwise, expect to see it on eBay ($200 ballpark).

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Dear Time Warner

Posted at January 12, 2008 5:15 pm | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Outdated, Research, RoadRunner, Software, Time Warner

Hello,

You dial access dialer does not work with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I’ve confirmed this with tech support. It hasn’t been updated in a very long time anyway, so it’s probably time for an update.
Or, better yet, release the PPP script so that we don’t have to use your horribly outdated proprietary dialer and you don’t have to support it. That way it’ll work with OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Note: This may need to be forwarded to someone in the company who actually understand what PPP is.

Ben

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Rewriting URLs with Apache

Posted at October 14, 2007 7:18 pm | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Apache, Blogging, Hacking, Networking

As some of you have probably noticed I use Wordpress to manage this site.

Which is great, I like it, and my friend Jordan (hyper123.net) has a system that automatically updates it for me. Sweet. All is well, right?

Well… it was until today. The problem is that Wordpress works, and makes URLs “pretty” by rewriting them (which it does by putting a .htaccess file in your root install directory).

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I’m switching from RoadRunner to pigeon

Posted at September 23, 2007 8:17 pm | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Internet, Networking, RoadRunner, Time Warner

…but it’s going to be slower than his current modem and there might be a lot of packet loss due to Hawks

Wrong. A 4GB Flash disk can easily be attached to a pigeon’s leg. If round trip time is even 30 min (1800 sec) between his home and the collection point, and only one pigeon is in flight at the time, you get 4GB = 32Gb =~ 32,000,000,000b. 32,000,000,000 bits / 1500 s = 17,777,777 bits / sec = 17 MBps. This is faster than FIOS!

Latency may be a problem as would be packet loss.

-b.

From Slashdot commenter b0s0z0ku.

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OpenDNS

Posted at March 9, 2007 11:21 am | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: DNS, Networking

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OpenDNS adds feature to check on and update DNS cache

Posted at December 27, 2006 1:53 am | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: DNS, Networking, Research, Technology

This may not mean anything to people who aren’t networking geeks, but this is AWESOME for anyone who runs any kind of server. Being able to update your DNS instantly is really nice.