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Huawei equipment and syslog daemon

by on Jul.08, 2008, under Huawei, Linux, Networking

So how easy is it to set a specific event to be sent over network to unix-like syslog.
Actually on huawei equipment there is a “info-center” component handling all this no matter if it is SNMP or syslog. Both types are configured basically the same (configuration is well described in the “Operation manual”). Of course there are some small catches (as always). The procedure follows following steps:

  • enable the info-center component
  • undo info-center
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DHCP option 82 and DHCP relay

by on Jun.27, 2008, under Computers, Huawei, Networking

I was actually playing with DHCP relay and what I did find out is kind of interesting. For what is DHCP relay look for rfc3046 .
In short it is when the client sends a DHCP a broadcast message (discover) some device (usually the switch that is the client directly connected to) intercepts the packet and sends a unicast discover instead of Continue reading

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Problems with mysql

by on May.14, 2008, under Linux

Ok so after some maintenance update of my debian server I did find out that my mysql is not running (and what was worse it seemed that it is not in the system anymore) the error message was something like the
/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index is not readable and error ’13′
so I did some stuff and what actually helped was re-installing the server and client of mysql with these commands
apt-get –reinstall install mysql-server mysql-client
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Plans for near future part I

by on Apr.29, 2008, under Computers, Linux, Networking, Uncategorized

So couple of things occurred so I have to handle these things:

  • Ipsec tunnels (Huawei ar router implementation vs cisco PIX end point) - maybe I put here some docs from theory
  • OpenVPN - as we try to play over Internet our beloved AoE2 and hamachi is just a kind of software that is just not working well I would like to establish some private tunneling using OpenVPN
  • Some stuff for Linux configuration (I just now play with Apache particularly
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