Archive for September, 2009

 

 

Sep 28 2009

TCP Offload

Published by dave under Windows

TCP Offload Engine (or TOE) transfers network processing load, from the CPU (software) to the network controller (hardware). The network card needs to support TOE such as the HP NC382T. This functionnality is disabled after the server installation.   Check if TOE is enabled   Windows 2003 The activation can only be checked with the [...]

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Sep 27 2009

Findstr, a Windows alternative to grep

Published by dave under Windows

A builtin equivalent to the Unix grep command is available in Windows, a bit less powerful though: findstr. You can do searches based on patterns, still in a measured way.   Options C:\>findstr /? Searches for strings in files. FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file] [/C:string] [/G:file] [...]

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Sep 04 2009

Configure WPA on Linux Howto

Published by dave under linux,security

WPA encryption is not much hassle to set up and is way more secure than WEP if you use a strong pre-shared key.   First off, we’ve got a wifi interface that can be displayed with iwconfig (from the wireless tools): [root@db ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g [...]

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