Category Archive: Networking

Networking information

Oct
20

Build and configure you own linux serial console server (reverse telnet)

One of the locations I look after has a stack of 16 Cisco switches that I manage remotely via the Internet. These switches often undergo some very complicated reconfigurations for certain customers of the site and from time to time I have found myself locked out via Telnet and have had to visit site with …

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Oct
16

NetworkManager and /etc/network/interfaces

Ever wondered how to manage interfaces declared in /etc/network/interfaces with NetworkManager? I recently updated an Ubuntu desktop remotely, and to my horror she hadn’t re-appeared after 5000 pings, that’s longer than a disk check. When I got back in front of the machine I could see she had rebooted just fine, but I had to …

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