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How-to setup an Upside-Down-Ternet

In an effort to replicate the amusing idea of a transparent proxy that manipulates traffic in a fun way found here and made even better with some great scripts that you can pull down from here. A Debian box was … Continue reading

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Configure YAF on Linux for NetFlow collection from a network tap or SPAN

In a previous post SiLK was setup on a Debian host using NetFlow v5 from a Cisco switch. This worked well but I also have a network tap and said Cisco switch is capable of capturing data via SPAN port(s). … Continue reading

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Configure SiLK on Linux for NetFlow collection from a Cisco router

This guide walks through configuring SiLK from a source install on a Debian 6 host in order to collect NetFlow data from a Cisco router. The guides here and here written by CERT NetSA are quite good but lack some … Continue reading

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Debian backup script updated

A quick note that I updated my Debian backup script located here: https://code.google.com/p/debian-update-script/. I have fixed a few bugs that became apparent with the release of Debian 6 “Squeeze” and made a few other tweaks. I have also added the … Continue reading

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Installing Sun Java on Debian Lenny

The Sun Java JDK is available in the Debian Lenny non-free repository, therefore you must modify /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list Add non-free to the Debian Lenny repositories: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main non-freedeb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates … Continue reading

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