Sep
28
2009
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 [...]
Tags: 2003 server, 2008 server, iSCSI, linux, TCP Offload, TOE, Windows
Sep
27
2009
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] [...]
Tags: findstr, grep, Windows
Sep
04
2009
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 [...]
Tags: debian, fedora, linux, pre-shared key, redhat, ubuntu, wifi, wireless, WPA, wpa_supplicant