Re: network woes

2009-12-24 Thread Eric Shubert
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:06 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: Honestly, I've never seen a cable/dsl modem that acts as a DHCP server or NAT translator. They normally are only connected to one computer or router and just pass the IP/DNS info to the computer or router. All routers I

Re: Logmein beta for linux clients

2009-12-24 Thread Eric Shubert
Stephen wrote: https://secure.logmein.com/US/labs/ for those of you who have been waiting for this... now all they need is a Linux installation to control Linux machines. You can do this with an IPCop firewall and OpenVPN, no? (and it's Free!) :) -- -Eric 'shubes'

Re: Logmein beta for linux clients

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen
yeah, sort of. but i don't get anywhere near the same functionality and it still means an open port. logmein uses nat to a central service so the firewall at home is not really open. and its an fton easier and works well with windows and mac systems as well. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Eric

Re: Logmein beta for linux clients

2009-12-24 Thread Eric Shubert
If you use OpenVPN, you simply open a tunnel to the firewall, and it's as if you just plugged into the local lan on the other side. Works from/to any platform. I don't see what logmein gains you. What functionality? What open port? Why use logmein? Stephen wrote: yeah, sort of. but i don't

Re: Logmein beta for linux clients

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen
well nevermind then. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: If you use OpenVPN, you simply open a tunnel to the firewall, and it's as if you just plugged into the local lan on the other side. Works from/to any platform. I don't see what logmein gains you. What

Re: Logmein beta for linux clients

2009-12-24 Thread Lisa Kachold
On 12/24/09, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Stephen wrote: https://secure.logmein.com/US/labs/ for those of you who have been waiting for this... now all they need is a Linux installation to control Linux machines. You can do this with an IPCop firewall and OpenVPN, no? (and it's

HackFest Series: Pirana Email Holiday Greetings

2009-12-24 Thread Lisa Kachold
Pirana PIRANA is a penetration testing framework to help in checking a SMTP content filter's security. It works by attaching an exploit to an email, optionally disguising it from content filters. PIRANA also lets you choose from different type of shellcodes to use and has various options to be

Question About Module Loading

2009-12-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I just installed Debian stable (2.6-amd64 kernel) on a machine. I had to remove the kernel module for the Ethernet card and add a different one. The new module compiled etc and works. However, I had a problem preventing the old module from loading. There was no modprobe.conf file, but instead a

Re: Question About Module Loading

2009-12-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 22:30 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: I just installed Debian stable (2.6-amd64 kernel) on a machine. I had to remove the kernel module for the Ethernet card and add a different one. The new module compiled etc and works. However, I had a problem preventing the old module

Re: Question About Module Loading

2009-12-24 Thread James Mcphee
Normally blacklist mods that I don't like in /etc/modules.d/blacklist.* files. On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.comwrote: On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 22:30 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: I just installed Debian stable (2.6-amd64 kernel) on a machine. I had to remove