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Get DAVfs Working On (X)ubuntu

Submitted by DonQuichote (Contact Author) (Forums) on Fri, 2007-10-19 18:18. :: Ubuntu | Networking

Get DAVfs working on (X)ubuntu

Mounting a WebDAV location under (X)ubuntu is not as straightforward as it should be. This mini-howto shows how you mount a WebDAV location and shows what problems you may have to solve.

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Bluetooth PAND (Personal Area Network) Howto For Debian Etch

Submitted by zdenekbouresh (Contact Author) (Forums) on Fri, 2007-03-23 17:09. :: Debian | Networking

Bluetooth PAND (Personal Area Network) Howto For Debian Etch

I wanted to access the internet over bluetooth instead of GPRS/3G network from my mobile phone (SE K800i). After a lot of searching I couldn't find a clear explanation as how to accomplish this. I did manage to set it up with Windows XP, using the "Personal Area Network" in the bluetooth utility and doing internet connection sharing. After another fruitless search, I managed to figure out how to make a bluetooth internet profile instead of GPRS or 3G on the phone. Since I work in Linux most of the time, I decided to have a go and do it with Debian, my workstation's main OS. After spending a few hours, I had it working using the steps below.

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How To Set Up A FreeBSD Wireless Access Point

Submitted by packetjunkie (Contact Author) (Forums) on Wed, 2007-03-21 17:41. :: Networking | FreeBSD

How To Set Up A FreeBSD Wireless Access Point

This how-to explains the process of setting up a FreeBSD system that will act as a wireless router (as well as a wired router) that takes advantage of the ported version of OpenBSD's PF packet filter.

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Network Monitoring With ntop

Submitted by m.ayad (Contact Author) (Forums) on Fri, 2007-03-16 17:17. :: CentOS | Monitoring | Networking

Network Monitoring With ntop

ntop is a network traffic tools that shows network usage in a real time. One of the good things about this tool is that you can use a web browser to manage and navigate through ntop traffic information to better understand network status.

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How to Set up Network Bonding in Ubuntu 6.10

Submitted by stutch (Contact Author) (Forums) on Tue, 2007-02-13 18:48. :: Ubuntu | Networking

How to Set up Network Bonding in Ubuntu 6.10

Network Bonding, otherwise known as port trunking allows you to combine multiple network ports into a single group, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of multiple interfaces into a single connection. For example, you can aggregate two gigabyte ports into a two-gigabyte trunk port. Bonding is used primarily to provide network load balancing and fault tolerance.

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Cisco 350 Series And Kismet

Submitted by un1x (Contact Author) (Forums) on Fri, 2006-11-24 15:20. :: Linux | Networking

Cisco 350 Series And Kismet

This tutorial is describing how to configure a Cisco Aironet wireless card and how to set up kismet in order to run with it.

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How do I find out which gateway a Linux system is currently using?

Submitted by admin (Contact Author) (Forums) on Mon, 2006-08-07 16:28. :: Networking

Run

route -nee

The output will look like this:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface    MSS   Window irtt
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0     0     0      0
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0     0     0      0
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0     0     0      0

This means that the system with the IP address 192.168.0.100 is using 192.168.0.1 as gateway.

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