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HP ML110 G3 and Linux Centos 4.3 / RHEL 4 Update 3
Using the same installation server as before, my laptop, I was able to install Linux Centos 4.3, with the addition of HP’s drivers for Adaptec SATA raid controller, on my new HP ML110 G3. Using just...
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net-snmp broken in RHEL (and Centos, of course) – diskio
I’ve had a belief for quite a while now that Linux, unlike other types of systems, was unable to produce any I/O SNMP information. I only recently found out that it was partially true – all...
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Combining Xen and VMware-Server on the same Physical server
Doesn’t work. It will work fine up to the step where you actually try to active one of the VMware virtual machines. And then your kernel will panic. Works fine without Xen kernel (but without Xen, of...
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Poor man’s load balancing
I was requested to setup a “poor man’s” load balancing. The server accesses various HTTP servers with a GET command, and the customer fears that the server’s IP will get blocked. To work around this,...
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IPSec VPN for mobile devices on Linux
I have had recently the pleasure and challenge of setting up VPN server for mobile devices on top of Linux. the common method to do so would be by using IPSec + L2TP, as these are to more common...
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Extracting/Recreating RHEL/Centos6 initrd.img and install.img
A quick note about extracting and recreating RHEL6 or Centos6 (and their derivations) installation media components: Initrd: Extract: mv initrd.img /tmp/initrd.img.xz cd /tmp xz –format=lzma...
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ZFS with Redhat Cluster Suite
This is a very nice project I have been working on. The hardware at hand – two servers, with a shared SAS bus containing several SAS disks. Since it’s a shared bus, no RAID solution would cut it, and...
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