Here's a quick brain-dump on setting up a single user VPN as a NAT gateway for use when i'm out and about.

I used the openvpn package from epel.

Note that in these examples the: tunnel endpoint = tun0

server tunnel address = 10.99.66.2

client tunnel address = 10.99 …

I had a strange issue with VIPs over multiple zones on my SSG5 today.  I was going to dump the debug commands but someone else has already done so quite well. The block / log policy I had for the trust zone VIP was also blocking on another zone, strange - but …

Since my new lab setup, everything on my main opensuse Linux machine is now in a different Juniper zone to my mac laptop and thus firewalled.

This NFS setup for me was one of the few times where it was easier to do the same thing in RHEL5.  I was …

I keep forgetting the diskutil commands so I've dumped them in the this post. To use dd in mac you have to remember to umount the volume first (as everything gets auto mounted)

mount - find the path for the mounted volume i.e /dev/disk3s1 (diskutil list) is also useful …

I use uhare a bit at home and I wanted it to work nicely with SuSE Firewall.

All I had to do was create a new service description in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2.d/services/ (I called mine ushare) and created the file accordingly.

I copied it from the  /etc/sysconfig …

Some sparse notes on installing KVM on openSUSE locally

Configure libvirtd

Firstly, lets not have to be root every time I want to use virt-manager and without using policy kit.  In /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf uncomment and set

unix_sock_group = "libvirt"
unix_sock_ro_perms = "0770"
unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"
auth_unix_ro = "none"
auth_unix_rw = "none"

(https://doc …

I picked up a raspberry pi to replace my Xbox XBMC was has lasted so well but is not powerful enough to play the HD MKVs I download.

One issue I found with the LG remote control I was using (on a one for all) was that the fastforward buttons …

After doing this at least twice in 24 hours I thought I better sort this out. You can block cmd w (close window) and assign it to something else to stop this from happening.

Goto System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyborad Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts

Then Add (+)

Application = X11.app
Window = Close
Shortcut …

I wanted to create an rpm for SuSE which I had not done before. Here are some notes on the process.

I created a user on my machine for this process called rpmbuilder.

Create a folder for development and create the layout for developing rpms

mkdir rpmdevenv; cd rpmdevenv

mkdir …

This is really useful for returning HTTP code of a request.

curl --write-out "%{http_code}\n" --silent --output /dev/null www.example.com