Are you having problems getting Bart’s Boot CD to recognize the Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller network interface card?
I work with some Dell computers (models: Optiplex SX280, Optiplex GX620, Precision 690 and Precision 370) that have this NIC and the current version of Bart’s Boot CD is unable to recognize it. The automatic NIC detection fails with a message to the effect of “could not find any device, you can try manually selecting a driver” (sorry, I can’t remember the exact error). …Continue reading » Bart's Boot CD with Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX Gigabit Controller
Soon after posting yesterday’s blog entry, How To: VPN Between RV082 (or RV042) and WRT54GL (or WRT54G), I received a comment from Paul Wouters:
Use dpdaction=restart
btw yout ike/ipsec lifetimes are insanely short. you should not do that. leave them default, and the shortest one of the other device will be used.
Paul, if you’re reading this, thanks for the tips!
I wasn’t sure how I could have missed that useful dpdaction=restart setting so I went back and checked the ipsec.conf man page this morning. Sure enough, the dpdaction=restart setting was missing from the man page. That’s why I missed it! See! I did RTFM!
Anyway, I did some googling to find out more about dpdaction=restart and I came across this Openswan mailing list message, authored by none other than Paul Wouters: …Continue reading » A Virtual Visit from Paul Wouters
Introduction
Using the OpenWrt Linux distribution, you can configure a LinkSys WRT54G (also WRT54GS and WRT54GL) router as an IPSec VPN endpoint. This IPSec VPN functionality is provided by an Openswan package that was built specifically for OpenWrt.
In this How To, I will show you how to create a VPN between a LinkSys WRT54GL and a LinkSys RV082 (RV042 could be used also). …Continue reading » How To: VPN Between RV082 (or RV042) and WRT54GL (or WRT54G)
In Outlook 2003, I have enabled the setting “show an envelope icon in the notification area”. With this setting enabled, whenever I get a new email, an envelope is displayed in the Windows system tray. I like this feature because it is less obtrusive and distracting than the methods of new email notification (e.g. Desktop Alerts, playing a sound, etc).
The only problem with this setting is that, by default, the envelope icon gets displayed even when the new email is spam (i.e junk email). …Continue reading » How to Hide the Outlook Envelope Icon When You Get Spam
