IPTables can be tricky. The concept of chains pointing to chains pointing to chains can get complicated. However, understanding the initial flow, the initial “which chain points where”, and the general concept which can allow, later, for easier NAT, or DNAT, or even knowing where to put a single rule is important. Especially if you…
I’ve acquired a new server which is to supply services to a certain group. On most cases, I would have used PREROUTE chain in my IPTABLES on my router for prerouting, based on a rule such as this: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i <external_Interface_name> -p tcp -s <Some_IP_address> –dport 80 -j DNAT –to-destination <New_server_internal_IP>:80…
I was required to utilize a transparent proxy. The general idea was to follow a diagram as the one here: The company did not want any information (http, https, ftp, whatever) to pass directly through the firewall from the internal network to the external network. If we can move it all via some sort of…
After upgrading my laptop to 2.6.15.1 kernel, hibernation worked flawlessly. Running my previous version of kernel – 2.6.14.2, I have had some hibernation instabilities. I’ve had some memory corruptions here and there, which would have required I reboot the machine. So far, and it’s been a while, I’m glad to say I had no reason…
Alongside a newer kernel, I’m enjoying a newer Software Suspend2 package. I am not crazy about betas, or RCs, so now I’m on the 2.2 stable. I have hibernated only once since I’ve upgraded kernel, but it went just fine on the first try, so I’m rather ok with it without setting a set of…
I’ve been to Hostopia today. The land of hosting servers. I’ve had an emergency job on one Linux server, due to a mistake I’ve made. It appears that the performance hindrance of using raid0 instead of raid1 (Centos/RH default raid setup is raid0 and not raid1, which led me to this mistake) for the root…
