A little bit of wisdom
I’m using Linux PPPoE for my internet connection, along with a Cisco VA887 router, in modem mode. Here’s the configuration for my specific ISP, but there’s no reason why this shouldn’t work with typical UK ISP’s This configuration should reside in /etc/ppp/peers/YOUR_ISP_NAME noipdefault defaultroute replacedefaultroute hide-password bsdcomp 15 deflate 15 noauth refuse-eap user ‘your isp […]
I’m using a Cisco VA887 as a modem, and here is the config, which should work with most UK ISPs. I also used the 887 as a PPPoE router previously and here is my config for that. My unit has had the fan removed, hence the ‘nolog’ option for the fan. To enhance passive cooling, […]
My MPD player has multiple USB interfaces, and I needed to maintain device order across reboots. The output of lsusb: The first 4 characters are the vendor ID (vid) and the second 4 are the product ID (pid) lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID […]
A (very) quick ‘howto’ to make a wireless access point from a Linux machine (should also with with Raspberry Pi with some modifications to the config files) NOTE: This howto assumes you already have a supported wireless network adaptor – not all adaptors support AP mode. Requirements: ifupdown / bridge-utils/ crda / wireless-regdb / hostapd […]
Despite following the installation guide, I encountered various issues when configuring archlinux (2021.12.01) recently. I’m not sure if these were failures on my part, but in any case I documented my configuration steps below. First step was to get a working internet connection. My network interface is enp3s0 so all commands reference that: Manually add […]
I was getting the following message in my log files on my Debian firewall. kernel: conntrack: generic helper won’t handle protocol 47. Please consider loading the specific helper module. The nf_conntrack_proto_gre module needs to be loaded to resolve this. modprobe nf_conntrack_proto_gre To load it automatically at boot, I created a new file (gre.conf) in /etc/modules-load.d […]
I have an Eco-Eye Smart energy meter, and they provide software for Windows, but nothing for Linux. When I purchased the meter, I also bought the optional USB cable, which emulates a serial port. This made it quite trivial to connect and read within Linux. On my Linux server, the device appeared as /dev/ttyUSB0 So […]
Update: 06/05/2020 – I seem to have missed a couple of steps when I created the initial post! (I forgot about the systemd unit file – now corrected) rc.local has been deprecated in Debian 9. However, you can still enable it with the following steps. Create a new file /etc/rc.local Add the following lines: #!/bin/sh […]
I spent a lot of time trying to get OpenDKIM to work on Debian Stretch. Having searched the Internet thoroughly, once again I found many different configurations, none of which actually worked for me. These are my various config files, with the domain name(s) swapped for “example.com” and the ‘selectors’ swapped for “example-selector-name” If you […]
Debian 8.9 (Jessie) The problem I had was a bind9 server that wouldn’t run in a chroot environment, despite being configured to do so in /etc/default/bind9 Running the daemon directly from the command line using named -u bind -4 -t /var/named/chroot worked just fine and the server ran as expected. After a little research I […]
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