Archive for December 2008

How to enable CUPS remote administration

CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X and other UNIX-like operating systems.
The default installation of CUPS only enable you to manage it from localhost computer.

However, if you are interested in remotely administering CUPS, you need to grant access from other [...]

All come back to IP address

We normally use domain name in accessing a homepage like:
http://www.yahoo.com
However, if your computer is accessing to the Internet directly without using a proxy server, it will need to first resolve this domain name (in this case www.yahoo.com) into IP address before it will try to get data from the website.
As for this example, if you [...]

What is computer network?

A computer network is a group of two or more computer systems linked together. The purpose of having computer network is to allow computers to communicate with each other and share resources and information.
The type of communication in computer network might be a download of video from Youtube, using your web browser like Firefox, Internet [...]

How to configure Cisco Devices to Use a Syslog Server

syslog is a client/server protocol standard uses for forwarding log messages in an IP network. It is typically used for computer system management and security auditing.
Most Cisco devices can use the syslog protocol to manage system logs and alerts.

However Cisco devices does not have large internal storage space for storing its logs. There are [...]

Eth0 is not active at Linux Fedora Startup

Sometimes even though you have configure such that “Activate device when computer starts” for eth0 in Linux Fedora, it appears to do nothing - eth0 is not active at startup.
This maybe a bug with Fedora. One way to overcome this issue is to execute the following command:
chkconfig network on
This will enable the network service [...]

Cisco IP Access List Logging

A Cisco IOS Access Control list (ACL) is used to define traffic. Once that “interesting” traffic is defined, some action can then be taken on that traffic.
Logging messages about packets permitted or denied by an IP access list is also available in Cisco IOS. Logging-enabled ACLs provide insight into traffic as it traverses the network [...]

Used Cisco Reseller

When an electronic product is shipped back to the manufacturer from customer for a variety of reasons, normally it will be inspected refitted with different parts as necessary and restored to original specification. After that it maybe repackaged for resale. However, the item can no longer sold as “new”, but can only be sold as [...]

How to add static route to your Linux Fedora machine

To add a default route into your Linux box,
route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 10.0.0.1
However, if you only execute this command, the route will disappears if you reboot your system.
So, what would be the best way to permanently add that route to your system?
You may add or edit the default gateway on /etc/sysconfig/network file, [...]