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Make AppBar transparent and show background image which is set to whole screen

I have added AppBar in my flutter application. My screen already have a background image, where i don't want to set appBar color or don't want set separate background image to appBar. I want show same screen background image to appBar also. I already tried by setting appBar color as [...] read more

Setting up a Bluetooth PAN

I am trying to create a Bluetooth PAN between two devices where I can access REST based web services over the Bluetooth connection. I have had some success with various proof of concepts (both Bluetooth legacy and Bluetooth Smart) but I am having problems trying to create a Group network [...] read more

Efficient computation of the average of three unsigned integers (without overflow)

There is an existing question "Average of 3 long integers" that is specifically concerned with the efficient computation of the average of three signed integers. The use of unsigned integers however allows for additional optimizations not applicable to the scenario covered in the previous question. This question is about the [...] read more

How can ARM's MOV instruction work with a large number as the second operand?

I just begin to study ARM assembly language, and am not clear about how to use MOV to transfer an immediate number into a register. From both the ARM reference manual and my textbook, it's said that range of immediate number following MOV instruction is 0-255. But when I test [...] read more

Hardwarebreakpoint WINAPI

I'm currently implementing the last task for a little debug framework, namely HW Breakpoints. I referred to this article so far: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/hardwarebreakpoint.aspx and a Book about writing a Debugger. I got following two functions so far for setting a HW breakpoint: void debuglib::breakpoints::hw_bp() { HANDLE helper = 0; CONTEXT co; [...] read more

write a hexadecimal integer literal equal to Int.MIN_VALUE in Kotlin

how does one write a hexadecimal integer literal that is equal to Int.MIN_VALUE (which is -2147483648 in decimal) in Kotlin? AFAIK, an Int is 4 bytes...and sometimes it seems like 2's complement is used to represent integers...but I'm not sure. I've tried the following hex literals to help myself understand [...] read more

CreateFileA fails to open HID device in Windows

EDIT: Issue reported here: https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/issues/276 Inkling is a pen-device from Wacom. (InklingReader) is an open source project that gets real-time data from it. I'm trying to tidy up InklingReader to use HIDAPI rather than libusb (as it works at higher level: HID rather than raw USB, so is much more [...] read more

What is the value of ~0 in C?

I want to get the values of INT_MIN and INT_MAX. I've tried ~0 and ~0 >> 1 since the leftmost bit is a sign bit but I got -1 for both of them. It's so confused that why ~0 doesn't turn out to be 0xffffffff and ~0 >> 1 to [...] read more

Strongswan (IKEv2) connection established, but no traffic routing

I've seen this sort of question posted a few times before, but so far, none of them have solved my issue. I'm trying to set up an IKEv2 VPN on my Ubuntu Server to use with my Windows Phone using Strongswan. The connection seems to be set up correctly, but [...] read more

Cisco ASA Site-to-Site VPN Dropping

I have three sites, Toronto (1.1.1.1), Mississauga (2.2.2.2) and San Francisco (3.3.3.3). All three sites have ASA 5520. All the sites are connected together with two site-to-site VPN links between each other location. My issue is that the tunnel between Toronto and San Francisco is very unstable, dropping every 40 [...] read more

How to dump memory to a file in gdb (osx)? Need to rescue my work

I need to know how I can dump memory in Safari.app, to a file. I've entered gdb attach 6741 (my safari PID). Now what? I tried searching for help on gdb on google, but I couldn't find anything that told me what to do, even when searching for "how to [...] read more

What's the difference between the x86-64 AT&T instructions movq and movabsq?

After reading this stack overflow answer, and this document, I still don't understand the difference between movq and movabsq. My current understanding is that in movabsq, the first operand is a 64-bit immediate operand whereas movq sign-extends a 32-bit immediate operand. From the 2nd document referenced above: > Moving immediate [...] read more

Adding Card to ListView

I'm trying to get list of Cards, and trying using the Expanded widget, but got overflow error My code: new Expanded( child: StreamBuilder( stream: Firestore.instance.collection('baby').snapshots(), builder: (context, snapshot) { if (!snapshot.hasData) return const Text('Loading...'); return ListView.builder( itemCount: snapshot.data.documents.length, padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 10.0), itemExtent: 25.0, itemBuilder: (context, index) { DocumentSnapshot ds [...] read more

SQL Server 2012 with account NT Service\MSSQLSERVER access is denied in domain

A few months ago we installed SQL Server 2012 in Windows 2008 R2 under the virtual account "NT Service\MSSQLSERVER", all good. A few days ago, one of the admins of the IT dept installed Full Text Search component to the SQL Server 2012 (the problem is he could not recall [...] read more

Corrupted NTFS Drive showing multiple unallocated partitions

My external hdd with a single NTFS partition was accidentaly plugged out (kids!)... and is now corrupted. Iv tried running ntfsfix - with no luck - output below.. When I look at the disk under disk management in Windows 7 it shows up as having 5 partitions 2 of which [...] read more

Disable IPv6 Loopback on Windows 7 64 Bit

I have a Windows 7 64 Bit machine, and I cannot find a way to disable the IPv6 Loopback. I looked at the article at How to disable IP version 6 or its specific components in Windows and shows how to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents to various values – but none of [...] read more

Why is my straightforward quaternion multiplication faster than SSE?

I've been going through a few different quaternion multiplication implementations, but I've been rather surprised to see that the reference implementation is, so far, my fastest. This is the implementation in question: inline static quat multiply(const quat& lhs, const quat& rhs) { return quat((lhs.w * rhs.x) + (lhs.x * rhs.w) [...] read more

Solution needed for building a static IDT and GDT at assemble/compile/link time

This question is inspired by a problem many have encountered over the years, especially in x86 operating system development. Recently a related NASM question was bumped up by an edit. In that case the person was using NASM and was getting the assemble time error: > shift operator may only [...] read more

Flutter: exception when having 2 FloatingActionButton

I receive an exception at first time the page is built, when this build involves 2 FloatingActionButton. However, if I comment out one of the 2 FloatingActionButton, run the app and at a later stage, I uncomment and proceed with a Hot Reload, it works. The following piece of code [...] read more

FreeBSD IP aliases in different subnets and default outgoing IP address

I have a FreeBSD VPS that until recently had assigned 3 public ip addresses in a /29 subnet. When making outgoing connections, the IP address used was always the non aliased one ".20", however now I have added another block of 3 ip addresses in a different /29 subnet and [...] read more

ASA site-to-site IPSec vpn to linux ipsec-tools endpoints stops working after a random period of time

We swapped to ASA's over the weekend, and we replaced our VPN infrastructure which was previously based on openvpn and are now using IPSec between our ASA 5520's and our other sites that have linux (CentOS) routers. The VPNs connect just fine, but after a period of time the connections [...] read more

My two-way trust with selective auth seems to behave opposite to a one-way trust

I'm not sure why I'm the only one running into this, I think it's a larger problem with Server 2012 and RDS protocols... With 2008 machines, you can use utilize a one way trust to authenticate across domains with the TSGateway service, but with 2012 it breaks when running across [...] read more

Enable TLS 1.2 in Windows Server 2012 running Exchange 2013 via IIS 8.0

I got some issues getting the TLS 1.2 protocol running on one of our Windows Server 2012 machines. I checked this using ssllabs.com by Qualys and also tested with a powershell script and the linux tool "cipherscan". The server hosts one Exchange 2013 SP1 (CU4) Server, with IIS 8.0. The [...] read more

OpenVPN connection works but no gateway is assigned

i try to setup openvpn on a vps and I'm able to establish a connection to the server, but the gateway isn't assigned to the client. Here are my config files: client config: client dev tun proto udp remote foo.bar 1194 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt cert client1.crt [...] read more

What does the "-->" notation mean in the output of ifconfig?

I have a VPN connection set up on my OS X machine, and when I run ifconfig in the terminal I get the following response: utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.8.0.6 --> 10.8.0.5 netmask 0xffffffff Can someone help me understand what the --> symbol means? read more

How to limit ZFS writes on NVME SSD in RAID1 to avoid rapid disk wear?

Currently I'm running Proxmox 5.3-7 on ZFS with few idling debian virtual machines. I'm using two SSDPE2MX450G7 NVME drives in RAID 1. After 245 days of running this setup the S.M.A.R.T values are terrible. SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 27 Celsius Available Spare: 98% [...] read more

How to debug ip xfrm rules

I created ip xfrm rules on 2 machine and trying to pass traffic through the ipsec tunnel. The packet comes into the other end, encrypted, and disappears. I traced them through iptables, and here is the trace. 2015-11-27T14:50:21.442638+04:30 cfae kernel: [70234.667488] TRACE: raw:PREROUTING:policy:2 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:b7:97:49:00:0c:29:42:5b:e1:08:00 SRC=172.24.1.178 DST=10.60.60.31 LEN=128 TOS=0x00 [...] read more

Block incoming traffic in bonding mode when primary interface is down

My server running on latest kernel (4.4.6) has configured a bond device (bond0) with two enslaved interfaces eth0, wlan0 with primary interface eth0. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011) Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: eth0 (primary_reselect always) Currently Active Slave: wlan0 MII Status: up MII [...] read more

Issue installing IE11

I've been using WSUS to roll out IE11, there's a few stranglers that IE11 will not install and I've started looking into. Here's what I've done. 1. Confirmed all prerequisite updates have been done. 2. I'm using the x64 bit package of ie11 and only using x64 servers and workstations. [...] read more

System Account Logon Failures every 30 seconds

We have two Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers running in a SQL failover cluster. On one of them we are getting the following events in the security log every 30 seconds. The parts that are blank are actually blank. Has anyone seen similar issues, or assist in tracking down the [...] read more

firewall-cmd - add-forward-port don't work

I have a KVM server (host) with multiple virtual machines (guests). My goal is my host forward port 222 to port 22 of a guest running an ssh service. This works... iptables -I OUTPUT -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -d 0.0.0.0/0 [...] read more

What can trigger a SIGPWR signal that interrupts a 'sendmsg' system call?

On a RHEL 6 host, I have a Cassandra server listening for TCP connections on localhost. In parallel, I have a client application that sends it requests. The client (C# Mono) uses sendmsg to send the serialized bytes. I consistently see the sendmsg return without having sent all requested bytes. [...] read more

Direct3D crashes dxdiag in 32-bit but works fine in 64-bit mode

DxDiag crashes when I open it unless I bypass Direct3D. It works fine in 64-bit mode. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M, and I've tried updating (also uninstalling, reinstalling) my drivers. I've also tried doing the same with DirectX. How can I enable Direct3D for 32-bit? I've tried enabling [...] read more

Is my mac hacked? Found weird things

I apologize for posting in length, but I thought being complete would be of more value: 20120822, my browser was not resolving a domain so I went into my terminal to check and lo-and-behold! I find these crazy commands remnant: mac-mini$ su Password: sh-3.2# sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts Mar 22 23:07:08 [...] read more

disabling ipv6 on windows 7 64bit

not sure what i am missing here.. every website suggests creating this reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents as DWORD and setting its value to 0xFFFFFFFF i've done this, but when i reboot, my NIC adapter still shows IPV6 enabled. since i have 64bit version, i also tried setting this value as QWORD. [...] read more

how do we call assembly function in c?

Hello :) i got a serious problem to call my assembly function in my c program, it said that it's undefined reference. here my assembly code : [GLOBAL gdt_flush] gdt_flush: mov eax, [esp+4] ; Get the pointer to the GDT, passed as a parameter. lgdt [eax] ; Load the new [...] read more

How to compile a C++ source code written for Linux/Unix on Windows Vista (code given)

I have a c++ source code that was written in linux/unix environment by some other author. It gives me errors when i compile it in windows vista environment. I am using Bloodshed Dev C++ v 4.9. please help. #include <iostream.h> #include <map> #include <vector> #include <string> #include <string.h> #include <strstream> [...] read more

On wrapping a Container to SigleChildScrollView the UI look blurry?

I am building an overlay and the overlay content exceeds the container size so I tried to wrap the container inside a SingleChildScrollView but on after doing this the UI looks blurry. And the container had a Column in which I'm placing FormFields and for the Column the mainAxisAlignment property [...] read more

Packets not entering FORWARD chain

first of all, this is not an every-day routing issue. The setup is fairly complex, so let me state it before. I got a router with, lets keep it simple, 3 interfaces. eth0, eth1, eth2. eth2 is used for pppoe. eth0 & eth1 have the clients. Okay so far so [...] read more

Linus/ext4/nvme crashes during high io

During mvn compilation, I have random crashes. The problem seems related to high IO and in kern.log, I can see things like: kernel: [158430.895045] nvme nvme1: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0xffffffff, PCI_STATUS=0x10 kernel: [158430.951331] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme0n1, sector 819134096 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class [...] read more

How to limit speed for every device per MAC address in the gateway via Linux command "tc"?

I have a gateway whose OS is Linux.Assume my downlink bandwidth is 100 Mbps. I want to limit the max download speed to 1Mbps for every device which uses this gateway.In other words, if there are 100 devices, every device can get 1 Mbps bandwidth in theory.I tried doing traffic [...] read more

FreeBSD major update broke vpnc connectivity, incoming ESP traffic doesn't appear unencrypted on interfaces

I updated a FreeBSD box from 10.4 to 11.2-RELEASE-p4 recently and it seems to have broken the vpnc VPN connectivity. Here's the vpnc.conf:IPSec gateway 10.1.0.1 IPSec ID vpnuser IPSec secret su0hoh8liNgeiT8 Xauth username vpnuser Xauth password miuthei3Niew2ee Nat Traversal Mode none Noninteractive Following the interface configuration; em0 is the hardware [...] read more

High Performance AWS EC2 / RDS + Nginx + PHP-FPM setup

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE We're currently running an application on a PaaS type solution for PHP. Their solution is based on AWS cloud and due to the fact that their plans don't fit our scaling needs, we've decided to migrate to AWS directly the application is performing "well" ~100ms [...] read more

Same hardware/software, significant difference in performance

Introduction I have two sets of machines, set A and set B, with apparently the same hardware/software configuration, but with a significant difference in performance. Machines in set B are up to x4 faster than machines in set A. However, if I reboot a machine in set A, inexplicably it [...] read more

Iptables u32 matching nat

I'm currently setting up IPtables to redirect certain UDP payloads to my application. Here is an example of what I have working so far: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp -d {IPDST} --dport 27055 -m u32 --u32 '0>>22&0x3C@8=0xFFFFFFFF && 0>>22&0x3C@12=0x54536F75 && 0>>22&0x3C@16=0x72636520 && 0>>22&0x3C@20=0x456E6769 && 0>>22&0x3C@24=0x6E652051 && 0>>22&0x3C@28=0x75657279' -j [...] read more

CentOS reporting lower total memory compared others in AWS

I have a t2.medium instance running in AWS on the CentOS 7 AMI and I noticed in top and free it's basically reporting 3.45GiB of total memory. If I launch an instance with the AWS linux (I think I tried the RedHat one too) it reports about 4GiB of memory. [...] read more

Windows 2008 R2 services not working

EDIT I spawned the Windows events logging service won't start issue to a separate question here I have a strange problem: 1. SQLAGENT won't start 2. Windows events logging service won't start Today I tried to copy a db to test some changes, and discovered that SQL server agent can't [...] read more

Setting up gateway on different subnet than IP address

My provider has a (stupid) setup where the IP address for the gateway is on a totally different IP range than the assigned IP address. They insist on doing this for whatever reason. I'm trying to get Windows Server 2012 R2 configured using a static route but have had no [...] read more

HP P410 ADU (hpacucli) generates empty report

I'm trying to monitor hard drive's smart status. I've tried smartctl tools and HP's own hpacucli to generate ADU report. However, neither of them are useful. smartctl does not show values like Power On Hours or Hard drive temperature. ADU report shows them empty. What's the right way to monitor [...] read more

Linux port based routing : reponse packets discarded

I would like to use port-based routing on my Linux local gateway. Here is my network diagram : 192.168.42.148/24 192.168.42.1/24 192.168.44.2 192.168.44.1 +--------------------+ +----------------------------+ +----------+ | Workstation (eth0)-|----------------|-(em0) Local_GW (tun0)-|------------| VPN_GW | +--------------------+ | (rl0) | +----------+ +-------------|--------------+ 10.133.8.79/21 | | 10.133.15.254/21 | +--------------------+ | Provider_GW | +--------------------+ Provider_GW only [...] read more

iptables NAT with multiple interfaces

I have an ubuntu 10 machine I'm trying to set up with NAT. eth0 is the WAN interface, that uses DHCP. eth1, eth2, eth3 are LAN interfaces. They are connected to 192.168.0.50, .51, .52 respectively. NAT through eth1 works great. On eth2/3, I get nothing -- "no route to host" [...] read more

Black screen while installing Debian

I tried installing Debian with a netinstall CD-ROM on my custom-built PC. Everything is going fine until I choose any of the install options because then the screen turns black and I get no graphical feedback at all. The screen itself seems to get information though because it doesn't go [...] read more

Error installing IE11 - prerequisite update KB2834140

I'm trying to upgrade Internet Explorer my Windows 7 (x64) development VM from IE8 to IE11. Both the online and offline installers fail with a bland error message: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dueo.png] The troubleshooter tells me nothing, but the IE11_main.log reveals: 00:04.524: INFO: Download for KB2834140 initiated. Downloading http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=303935 [...] read more

Sysprepped image will not complete setup

I'm having a problem installing/setting up an image. Background:I've created a Windows 7 Enterprise image (i.e. installed OS, installed applications, configured settings, etc.). Then I sysprepped it and captured/applied it with imagex (onto a computer with identical hardware as the original). When I boot up the new machine, windows starts [...] read more

Mac OS X: finder window keeps opening by itself and stealing focus

I have a Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11 here, with an annoying problem. After starting the computer and logging in, the finder keeps stealing focus. You can go back to your working app, but a minute later, it steals focus again. Even as I'm typing this message, I had [...] read more

How to use openvpn for browsing

I'm just starting out with VPN and OpenVPN. What I understand is that I when I have a vpn connection, it's like I'm on the same network as the server. Then I should be able to connect to the server via the local address (10.8.x.x). Next to that I should [...] read more

Something very strange with network

I have Windows 7 and I have very strange thing with my network. Some time I was connected through wireless router and my IP was 192.168.2.103, router's IP was 192.168.2.1 and some other IP was 192.168.2.100. The last I get from page "active DHCP clients" of web interface of the [...] read more

How to let ld link the function in a header file?

I have a self-defined function strlen() in lib.h inline int strlen(char * String) { register int __res; __asm__ __volatile__ ( "cld \n\t" "repne \n\t" "scasb \n\t" "notl %0 \n\t" "decl %0 \n\t" :"=c"(__res) :"D"(String),"a"(0),"0"(0xffffffff) : ); return __res; } which is invoked in printk.c #include "lib.h" .... len=strlen(s); and when [...] read more

Identity login function stopped working Blazor Wasm Asp.net core hosted

I've been playing with a blazor wasm asp.net core hosted project for a few weeks now, yesterday I added a few controllers on the server side and everything was working fine (Also logging in).. Came back today and identity server just stopped logging in?? I can reach the api (and [...] read more

Is there a way to decrypt a String that is hashed into a CRC int from a specific table?

I have this very archaic Java code that has left behind a one-way solution for converting strings (which are always "some_string_like_this_03" format) into a CRC using bitwise math that is referenced by a lot of other mechanics in the very large codebase. Is there any reasonable way to reverse this [...] read more

"Error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _long_add@12 referenced in function _main" when using an Assembly function in C++

I'm trying to use an Assembly(FASM) program as a function in C++, but it doesn't seem to be working, even though I linked the compiled object. Any advice? C++ program: #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> using namespace std; extern "C" { unsigned int __stdcall long_add(int*, int*, int*); [...] read more

AWC EC2 Amazon Linux 2 Instances failed to boot after applying os updates

Yesterday we lost contact with 10 identically configured servers, after some investigation the conclusion was that a reboot after security updates had failed. We have so far not been able to get any of the servers back online, but were lucky enough to be able to reinstall the instances without [...] read more

How should I initialise my stm32 ( f215 )

I am trying to make an extremely minimal stm32f215 firmware to teach myself its boot-up intricacies. As it is now I have this dump which, to my knowledge, should write the stack address to r0 and loop forever: firmware-d: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .isr_vector: 08000000 <vector>: 8000000: 20002000 [...] read more

How to make widget out of a GestureDetector with a Container child?

I want to make a reusable button with a container in GestureDetector which will execute some function if I tap it and its color will become dark if I hold it. Any help, hint, tip would be very much appreciated. I tried writing the GestureDetector in the custom widget file [...] read more

Compositor is blending OpenGl even when fragments alpha's are 1.0

The following code (a bare minimal example) produces a triangle on top of a plain color screen. The triangle and the screen colors have alpha values of 1.0, but still when the program is run with compositor enabled (X11/KDE system settings) the colors are merged with whatever is behind the [...] read more

What's the largest possible Logical Cluster Number (LCN) on an NTFS volume?

By spec, NTFS partitions can have up to 263 - 1 logical clusters. But when I tried to calculate what size drive I'd need to test values greater than 32bits, I ran into a problem. Doing the math, a 4k cluster size with 0xFFFFFFFF + 1 clusters results in 17,592,186,044,416 [...] read more

Enable IPv6 in MariaDB in FreeBSD jail

I'm trying to set up a MariaDB 10.2 Server on a FreeBSD 11.2 Jail. The Server is running and accepts remote connections via IPv4 just fine. According to sockstat, it should also be listening on IPv6: db# sockstat | grep 3306 mysql mysqld 17516 177 tcp46 *:3306 *:* This is [...] read more

Transparent HAproxy on ubuntu (amazon EC2)

I am trying to setup a transparent HAproxy load balancer using ubuntu 18.04 on amazon EC2. I got the HAproxy to work on a non-transparent mode, so now I am trying to add the changes required for the transparent mode, but I am getting 503 Service Unavailable No server is [...] read more

How to get TOR hidden service to work with iptables

I'm running an Arch Linux server which acts as a TOR relay and I would like it to act as a hidden service as well (I want to provide .onion access to my services, I know running a relay next to a HS is not suitable for an anonymous service). [...] read more

How to fix Apache2 w/ suPHP to scan the correct .ini directory?

Apache2 was reading the correct area for php.ini in /etc/php5/apache2 until suPHP was added to the system. Configuring suPHP_ConfigPath in /etc/apache2/mods-available/suphp.conf gets the correct php.ini loaded, but does not correct the directories to be scanned. How, and where, do I fix this so that Apache loads/scans/uses PHP from the original [...] read more

OpenVPN routing between static hosts

I have an OpenVPN server with successful static-key tunnels to two separate hosts - my laptop, and another server elsewhere on the internet. I have connectivity over both OpenVPN tunnels. How do I make it so the server with two tunnels routes traffic across its tunnels? Switching to server mode [...] read more

OpenVPN client connects but can't access internet

I setup an Openvpn server on a centos box and I can get the client to connect (osx) but can't access the internet or even the local network. I thought maybe DNS but couldn't access any sites via IP. Any help would be appreciated. I will list my config files [...] read more

DHCP offer is unicast but DHCPACK is broadcast

My DHCP server broadcast DHCPACK 0xffffffff . it is not working on layer 3 dhcp relay agent . as it can not forward this broadcast message to my client. can any one help me from exactly the broadcast bit set ? should I send any parameter to dhcp server so [...] read more

nslookup fails inside freebsd jail

I posted on the freebsd forums. I've been trying all night and I've made some progress but still I can't connect to the internet from my freebsd jail. Please just give me a hint here. I get the following inside the jail if I do nslookup www.google.com : ;; connection [...] read more

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server

I have a performance lab running behind a firewall, so none of the machines in the lab has internet access. All machines in the lab are part of a domain with the domain controller also present inside the lab. The problem is that some server's time are drifting heavily. Some [...] read more

Windows: SSL/TLS connection reset after ClientHello (ECONNRESET / write:errno=10054)

I'm using Windows Server 2012 as a workstation. The problem is that HTTPS connection initiated by node.js randomly fails. Probably this is system-wide issue and not only node is affected, but it appears mostly with node. Because any HTTPS request can randomly fail, npm install is a lottery and for [...] read more

Windows 10 drops IKEv2 VPN connection to Cisco router in exactly 60 seconds after last data exchange

Update 3: 22 January 2017 I've narrowed down the update that causes this problem: KB3201845 OS Build 14393.479 from December 9 2016. I went through all these updates step by step. Looking at the changes files manifest, these files have been changed: * agilevpn.sys * vpnike.dll Other topics I've created: [...] read more

on xeon, does addq require 2 clock cycles?

How many cycles are required to add long ints on a xeon? from timing trials, it appears that 2 clock ticks are needed. /proc/info says model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz sample c code (loop.02.c) unsigned long i, j=0; for(i=0; i<(0xFFFFFFFF);i++) j+=3; assembler code 21:loop.02.c **** for(i=0; [...] read more

Failed MacbookAir boot Linux (Tails) - Kernel panic on boot

I’ve an error with my MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018), version 10.15.1 Boot ROM version : 1037.40.124.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.11081.0.0,0) I try to boot on Tails by a USB key and Apple adaptator Thunderbotl/USB See the log after select Tails boot : (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS) (20190703/psparse-529 [ 0.772994] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0._PDC [...] read more

Network interface for VPN connection explanation

I'd like to know exactly what is happening when I create a connection with my company's VPN. When I connect (using OpenVPN), I see the following network interface by using ifconfig: utun3: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.8.0.18 --> 10.8.0.17 netmask 0xffffffff This looks different from other network interfaces in that [...] read more

How to slow down traffic with tc?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04; I'd like to learn the basics of traffic shaping, I made a simple script that should slow down my HTTP(S) traffic to ports 80 and 443. # usage: sudo ./filename.sh #delete existing rules # wlan0 is my WiFi tc qdisc del root dev wlan0 iptables -t [...] read more

How do I configure DNS when sharing a VPN connection in linux?

I'm using a Linux computer (raspberry pi) to share a VPN connection over ethernet. I want the raspberry pi to connect to the internet normally (not over the VPN). I'm very close to getting it working, but I don't know how to configure the DNS for the eth1 network. Connection [...] read more

How can I get a Mellanox ConnectX-2 to work on this ASUS desktop motherboard?

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