A while back I set up a virtual kickstart network with VMware Fusion and Cobbler on my Mac. But Fusion (unlike VMware server/workstation) made tweaking low-level settings hard, so I’ve switched to VirtualBox, which is free (for non-commercial/eductional use), has a kick-ass command line interface and much better networking options. Here’s a revised howto. why? I’ll just [...]
Archives for networking
hacking servers to trust your CA
Welcome, Googlers For the second time this millenium, I’ve had to persuade a server to trust the LDAP server in the corner. The one with an SSL certificate written in crayon. Eventually I found a fix – my own, from a few years back, on a mailing list archive (I never got round to restoring [...]
pooplex, more like
Just a quick ‘note to self’. I noticed my NIC ( iprb0 ) is running in half duplex mode (autoneg doesn’t work with our switches): vera # kstat iprb:0|grep duplex duplex half A google finds very out of date information. I finally found the answer in the manpage, of all places man iprb(4) says you [...]
