Distro Debian

Everyone,
Been installing servers lately to do a multitude of things and I had a certain application that I had to install which would just not play well with Ubuntu. I went ahead and install debian as a test and boy am I impress. I'm known to be a lover of centos and fedora but the debian package repos is incredible and the fact that they are strip of crap as possible makes them a very very very good server distro. I highly recommend if you dont want to go with ubuntu and all its extra stuff.

http://www.debian.org/

One Liner to detect as and ip registar info via cymru

This is a small oneliner bash script that it accepts an AS# or IP address and provides the registar and information about the owner of said AS or IP, it is a more complete whois

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#!/bin/bash
whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v $1"

Finding TACACS+ for RPM base distros

I found that the latest TACAC's build are in:
http://www.networkforums.net/

among other neat routing software.

To install in fedora simply do

in sudo
user#rpm -ivh tac_plus-xxxx.rpm (make sure you dont use .src.rpm files)
then
user#rpm -q tac_plus-xxx 
spits back the version you installed that means its installed correctly :-)


I used this guide as reference:
http://www.gazi.edu.tr/tacacs/docs/tac_install.txt

Best IRC chat client in MAC

In a search for a decent chat client for IRC on the MAC, I attempted to use the new Adium features, seeing as I already use it for everything else, i though it would have been simple for IRC also. Soon discovered that Adium does not support alot of basic IRC commands, also it does not make your life any easier by moving from channel to channel or PM. I quickly went ahead and moved to my next candidate Colloquy, man was I impress, this is a keeper. My recommendation. More on IRC server soon.

Kismac, wpa and wep cracking on the mac

Cracking WEP and WAP keys in the mac is simple. Just learned this while review nmap.org top 100 security application I came across this niffty tool called Kismac, is the port of kismet to the mac. You can get the app from here:
http://trac.kismac-ng.org/

Kudos to the team also who put the video together on how to crack wpa and wep keys with and without packet injection on youtube:

Opensource hardware authentication

Any advising in deploying an open source server that does hardware authentication similar to that of RSA SecurID 700. Been googling the hell out of it but cannot find a decent solution the closes thing I found was wikid.com but is a paid solution.

Loopbooks in MAC

Ran into an issue today attempting to configure GNS3 for a routing lab. I was looking for a way to add another loopback interface on the mac. I did not find an answer. I attempted using ifconfig, but I get this error:

sudo ifconfig lo1 create
Password:
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument

Strange, the GUI does not support creating real interfaces, only virtual ones which is not good in binding with GNS3 because the appliciation wont detect it :-/ still stuck.

Free CCNA study guide

Browsing Packet life I noticed that someone took the time to build a free CCNA study guide using GNS3 http://www.freeccnaworkbook.com/. Please make sure you visit the site if your studing for the CCNA or want to understand networking a bit more. Kudos Matthew George!!!.

Ubuntu LOCO Teams

Seeing a lot of activity from the local ubuntu team, Im going to attempt to attend the meeting this saturday:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/386/detail/

Content Management Systems

I have been looking to deploy a CMS on a city, as the web precense. The CMS will serve as a platform to post recent news events produced by the city. Furthermore the cms will be a point of information for citizens, business and visitors of the city. I was looking at two options, Joomla and Wordpress. I found that wordpress is a much easier install than Joomla and its as customazable. THe wordpress GUI platform also feels easier to operate and work with. If anyone has any advise on a similar solution pleae feel free to comment.

Joomla Install Process:

Wordpress Install Process:


anyone would like to enlightenment on what CMS to use for a small city deployment, and if there is any other options aside from Joomla Drupal and Wordpress.