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How to find magic bitboards?

const int BitTable[64] = { 63, 30, 3, 32, 25, 41, 22, 33, 15, 50, 42, 13, 11, 53, 19, 34, 61, 29, 2, 51, 21, 43, 45, 10, 18, 47, 1, 54, 9, 57, 0, 35, 62, 31, 40, 4, 49, 5, 52, 26, 60, 6, 23, 44, 46, [...] read more

How to convert CIDR to network and IP address range in C#?

I have been looking around quite a bit to find some C# code to convert a network in CIDR notation (72.20.10.0/24) to an IP address range, without much luck. There are some threads about CIDR on stackoverlow, but none seems to have any C# code and cover exactly what I [...] 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

std::mt19937 fails when std::uint_fast32_t is 4 bytes in GCC

The problem I have encountered occurs when I'm trying to test the cppreference example on generating pseudo-random numbers. Given the example: #include <iostream> #include <random> int main() { std::random_device rd{}; std::mt19937 gen{rd()}; std::uniform_int_distribution<> dis{1, 6}; for(int n = 0; n < 10; ++n) { std::cout << dis(gen) << ' '; [...] 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

Generating pseudo-random 16-bit integers

I need to generate 16-bit pseudo-random integers and I am wondering what the best choice is. The obvious way that comes in my mind is something as follows: std::random_device rd; auto seed_data = std::array<int, std::mt19937::state_size> {}; std::generate(std::begin(seed_data), std::end(seed_data), std::ref(rd)); std::seed_seq seq(std::begin(seed_data), std::end(seed_data)); std::mt19937 generator(seq); std::uniform_int_distribution<short> dis(std::numeric_limits<short>::min(), std::numeric_limits<short>::max()); short n = [...] 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

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

Problem switching to v8086 mode from 32-bit protected mode by setting EFLAGS.VM to 1

I'm in 32-bit protected mode running at current privilege level (CPL=0). I'm trying to enter v8086 mode by setting EFLAGS.VM (Bit 17) flag to 1 (and IOPL to 0) and doing a FAR JMP to my 16-bit real mode code. I get the current flags using PUSHF; set EFLAGS.VM (bit [...] read more

How can I print maximum value of an unsigned integer?

I want to print the maximum value of the unsigned integer which is of 4 bytes. #include "stdafx.h" #include "conio.h" int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { unsigned int x = 0xffffffff; printf("%d\n",x); x=~x; printf("%d",x); getch(); return 0; } But I get output as -1 and 0. How can I print [...] 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

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

Count leading zeros in __m256i word

I'm tinkering around with AVX-2 instructions and I'm looking for a fast way to count the number of leading zeros in a __m256i word (which has 256 bits). So far, I have figured out the following way: // Computes the number of leading zero bits. // Here, avx_word is of [...] 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

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

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 to display an ImageView in a custom view in Android

I have an activity that calls a custom view when a button is pressed. The custom view runs fine until I try to add an ImageView to it. I have tried this in my xml that is called in my main activity with setContentView: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" [...] read more

Why does ARM treat "0xFFFFFFFF" as out of "int" range for enums but not for assignment?

I am trying to compile the following code in C (armcc file.c): typedef enum A { JANUARY, FEBRUARY= 0xFFFFFFFF /* Warning seen on this line */ }A; int main() { int max = 0xFFFFFFFF; /* No warning seen for this line*/ ... } I get a warning only for the [...] read more

`LoadLibraryExW` triggers exception `0xC0000023` from `NtMapViewOfSection`

It's going to be really hard to reduce the scope of this question, but here we go. CONTEXT I'm in the context of a 32-bit ActiveX control which is loaded into a host ( TstCon.exe). After unloading and reloading the control, I receive a streak of errors from NtMapViewOfSection, the [...] 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

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

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

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

How can I get FreeNAS to respond to libvirt shutdown requests

I have a KVM VM of FreeNAS 0.7.1 Shere (revision 5127) running on Ubuntu Server 10.04 and I'm unable to convince the VM to shutdown from the host virsh shutdown freenas I would expect this to send some ACPI? trigger to the VM and FreeNAS then do what it's told. [...] 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

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

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

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

counting L1 cache misses with PAPI_read_counters gives unexpected results

I am trying to use PAPI library to count cache misses. cache hit performance counter is not available on my hardware, that's why I am trying to determine cache hits with no cache misses. I am trying few things. First version of my code is this: int numEvents = 2; [...] read more

Quadtree neighbor search in constant time with QTLCLD

I wish to implement this paper's algorithm for accessing quadtree node neighbors in constant time. I am facing problems when attempting to access diagonal neighbors (for when the quad is one or more level smaller than the searched neighbor). Example: root->Child(SE)->Child(NE)->GetNeighbor(NW) should return root->Child(NE). However, I get a result of [...] 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

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

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

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

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

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

Marking packets with iptables with a NAT

I have to write bash scripts for a router to control bandwidth limitation for a given user on a given domain name. For this, I'm using iptables to mark the packets incoming from a restricted domain to a user ip address in the private network. With each couple user_ip/domain_ip I [...] 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

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

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

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?

People seem to be happy with second-hand Mellanox ConnectX-2s on Linux so I grabbed a pair. Both cards result in an network interface showing up on one computer but neither show up in the other computer. Working computer: * EVGA 120-LF-E650 desktop board * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS * Linux 4.4.0 [...] 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

Enable SCHANNEL Protocols in Windows Registry (Win7 & 2012R2) DisabledByDefault or Enabled?

I have enabled TLS 1.0/1.1/1.2 protocols on my local Win7 machine and 2012R2 server as well as disabled SSL 2.0/3.0 using the registry DWord value DisabledByDefault = 0 based on the following Microsoft support article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/245030(see SCHANNEL\Protocols subkey...) But i noticed another TechNet article which seems to contradict this KB [...] read more

Routing subnet to specific routing table with fwmark, direct to ISP and VPN

Introduction I'm trying to set up a VPN on my router so that I have two routing tables. I want it so that all the filtering is done with iptables, and iproute just acts on the specific fwmarks, ie generic rules. It is an improvement of Routing a particular subnet [...] read more

OS X - GPU Panic

For half a year, I've been experiencing random freezes/reboots on my MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012 model. My current OS is OS X Yosemite, but I started experiencing the issue in the Mavericks era. The laptop has endured some occasional, unintended slight physical abuse, but nothing very serious. Just mentioning [...] read more

Computer tends to BSOD crash (in any browser) when using Flash based apps?

About a month ago my computer started experiencing crashes, at first it was just every once in a while, then it escalated to around 5 times a day. Typically it crashes when I access flash-based games and videos, but it has occurred at random, e.g. no sensible correlation between what [...] 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

Use of Xil_Out32 in Xilinx SDK

In Vivado I succesfully made a simple blockdiagram to control the LEDs of my Zybo board. I can observe that the offset address for my LEDs is: 0x4120 0000 and the High Address is 0x4120 FFFF. Now when I go to the SDK: #include <xil_printf.h> #include <xil_types.h> #include "platform.h" #include [...] read more

Normalizing a two complement number

I am working on some Tensilica processor and I don't understand the normalization process. NSA - Normalized Shift Amount NSA at, as NSA calculates the left shift amount that will normalize the twos complement contents of address register as and writes this amount (in the range 0 to 31) to [...] read more

Task Scheduler returns 0xFFFFFFFF in Windows 7

I created a Python script that collects data from a website and generates an Excel file based on a table in that website. I used pyinstaller with -w -F parameters to generate a .exe file. I ran this file a few times and it worked perfect so I decided to [...] read more

After Migrating to AndroidX, i got this Error inflating class <unknown>

After Migrating to AndroidX from Refactor tools in Android Studio, i got this error - android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #42: Error inflating class .. Before i was Working Perfectly but only after migrating it was coming up with these errors in some activities.. StackTrace : java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start [...] read more

How can i add two numbers with 12 bytes each-one?

I want to add two numbers that have 12 bytes and to store the result in a 16 bytes var. How can i do this? section .data big_num1 dd 0x11111111, 0x22222222, 0x33333333 big_num2 dd 0xffffffff, 0x22222222, 0x33333333 section .bss result_4word resd 4 I think i can add the first 4 [...] read more

generating an .au file in c

Out of morbid curiosity I've been trying to come up with a program that will generate a 4 second 440 A note in C. However, playing the outputted file in VLC does not produce any music. Using Wikipedia as a guide to the .au header on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_file_format I [...] read more

Google Play email re. call/sms log permissions?

I have ~a dozen apps on the play store which are identical, with UI tweaks for various clients. I've recently gotten an automated email from Google Play for 2 of my apps (but not the others) saying that they use permissions which are no longer allowed. They email at the [...] 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

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

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

SOME/IP length error in trace window when sending SOME/IP messages from CANOE using CAPL script

I am getting SOME/IP length error(but getting correct data) in trace window when sending SOME/IP messages from CANOE using CAPL script. I think i am missing any settings that should be done in Canoe. Can anyone suggest a possible reason for this? and how to solve this? The code used [...] read more

GRUB2 fails to boot multiboot compliant kernel that worked with GRUB Legacy

I have been trying to port a non-Linux mostly multiboot 0.6.96 compliant (the multiboot header is past 8 KiB) 32-bit elf kernel from GRUB Legacy to GRUB2. Currently, the kernel and GRUB are placed on a USB which is used to boot a different computer via the BIOS, like a [...] read more

Error 582 while trying to access Windows Features

Today went to turn on the Hyper-V feature in the "Turn Windows Features On and Off" settings, but the dialogue would always just load for like 20 seconds then crash my machine. I looked up alternative ways to view/access the Windows Features and found you could do it from DISM [...] read more

Windows 7 OK button on Copy To dialog doesn't copy profile

So I am attempting to copy a User Profile to the default profile. I am using WinSpy++ to enable the disabled "Copy To" button - this process works on a stock laptop I have here. However, this does not work in a customised image I have with a fair amount [...] read more

How to add routing for 2 VPN connections?

I am trying to setup second VPN connection over the first one, which is my only option at the moment. The first VPN connection works fine(utun1), providing me internet access and it looks like this: Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire 0/1 10.56.10.5 UGSc 0 0 utun1 default [...] read more

Mount ancient PATA disk (from a 386) to restore files (ATA 1, or older)

I have a PATA disk from a 386 laptop (1995?) which I would like to get files off. It is a Seagate 9096A, and is working. Using the old laptop is not possible. I have tried a USB - 2.5" PATA adapter, but it failed to properly interface with the [...] read more

Web Services for authentication over SSL failed due to TLS 1.2 on Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8

There are a SSL vulnerability called POODLE discovered by Google team in SSLv3 protocol. So uses of SSLv3 is not secure to use. Now its recommended to use TLS 1.2. We have IOS applications that are using web services over SSL for login to app. Apps started throwing error as [...] read more

linux drops packet when trying to route it - why?

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I've tried almost all iptables rules to block smtp on openvpn server but still clients clients can access remote smtp servers on port 25. I'm using openvpn access server. It's creating two interfaces as0t0 and as0t1. All users assigned ips from 172.16.0.0/12. Please help me what rules can be written [...] read more

Network configuration fault

I'm moving my router from Rpi with Rasbian to another pc device with ubuntu server 14. I have: - local network 10.0.0.0/16, with my router gateway 10.0.0.1 - lte usb device 192.168.8.1 in network 192.168.8.0/24 - lte usb device 192.168.10.1 in network 192.168.10.0/24 I have moved all network settings with [...] read more

Captive portal with iptables and local dns server

I'm trying to redirect all the browser's requests from my wifi interface wlan1 to a captive portal. I have a node web server running on my target on 10.4.30.34:4040. It has to redirect the browser directly to the web server, on the good port, like I entered "10.4.30.34:4040" in the [...] read more

CentOS Development Server Crashing Frequently

I am running a development server on a fairly old version of CentOS 5. This server has been live almost constantly for the past five years ago, so has been pretty stable. A while ago, it crashed during normal operation. I restarted it and it crashed again after a few [...] read more

HAProxy 1.5.4 Performance Tuning

I currently have HAProxy 1.5.4 setup using keepalived for HA on centos 7 using IPtables to create a transparent load balancer to load balance a number of cisco WSA proxy servers for internet filtering on an infrastructure of around 15,000 users running on vmware and cisco UCS with one GB [...] read more

unable to find driver - lamp debian

This is my php sample script: <?php try{ $db=new PDO('mysql:dbname=_mydb;host=localhost', 'root', 'xxxxxx'); }catch(PDOException $e) { echo "Error: ".$e->getMessage(); } ?> And I have returned: could not find driver Also: user@nbook:~$ php -i|grep PDO PDO PDO support => enabled PDO drivers => mysql PDO Driver for MySQL => enabled This is [...] read more

"No inittab file found" after reset

An old dedicated server (Debian with Raid1) wasn't responding today and now can't boot after manual reset. Last message is > No inittab file found. I still have access to filesystem via rescue system. Ran fsck and checked raid (both arrays are clean). Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 Default' root [...] read more

Out of 2 VMs and their 1 host, only 2 at a time are reachable from the LAN

I have a VMware vSphere hypervisor set up with two VMs. I need to be able to reach the host (for configuration, etc.) as well as both VM's from my client (which is also in the same subnet). I want to set up a PoC Hadoop cluster, and the client [...] read more

PBR with iptables

I know question was answered multiple times, but this situation a bit different. So here is what I have: * All users must user default gateway on eth0, except one * That one must only use gateway on eth1 and must not under any circumstances use eth0 Separately this things [...] read more

LAMP server kerberos config to authenticate against a read only Windows KDC in a dmz

Background: We have a number of AD networks (domains) that are connected through VPNs and have established AD trust relationships. We have an externally hosted web server and have configured seamless authentication for any user within the trusted network. This works but the presence of the VPN to an external [...] read more

iptables rules for lvs using piranha gui

I am trying to bulid an lvs system, where 202.141.81.239 is the virtual IP and 202.141.81.241 and 202.141.81.242 are the lvs routers.Ths system is working fine in our intranet but is not through internet. The following is my iptables configuration # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Tue Mar 25 12:30:26 [...] read more

iptables 1.4.12 invert and --u32

This line in a script: iptables -A jk2_ddos -m u32 ! --u32 "0x1c=0xffffffff" -j ACCEPT will result in this error: iptables v1.4.12: u32: option "--u32" cannot be inverted. This seems not to work in iptables 1.4.12. In older versions it worked. I need something that does the same. The problem [...] read more

debugging smtp | ubuntu 12.04, postfix, dovecot

I cannot sucessfully connect to my smtp server from my mail client. I am getting the following errors in my /var/log/mail.log file Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: read from B96D2180 [B96C1EB3] (5 bytes => -1 (0xFFFFFFFF)) Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: read [...] read more

traffic shaping, prioritizing packets without using a bitrate ceil/max

I've written a script that shapes traffic into 3 pipes. The first pipe needs to be high priority and always be send first. This works perfectly now on 1 condition. I enter a correct ceil/max bitrate. This script is written to work an a device that will work with lots [...] read more

BAT file will not run from Task Scheduler but will from Command Line

I'm trying to run a BAT script from Task Scheduler in Windows 2008 R2 and it runs for 3 seconds and then stops. It says it successfully completes but I know it doesn't. I can run this script from the command line directly, and it runs just fine. The bat [...] read more

ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

I can't put my mind around it, before reboot I was able to ssh in from outside to my jail and right now I can't! I even rebuild the whole system and even that didn't help:( anyone have any ideas? su-3.2# cat /etc/ipnat.rules map fxp0 lama -> 0/32 rdr fxp0 [...] read more

Add route on OpenBSD for DSL modem on external network

I'd like to be able to access my DSL modem, which is acting as a bridge, from within my local network. I've got a setup like this: {Local network 192.168.1/24} | rl0:192.168.1.250 [OpenBSD Router] rl1:up tun0:pppoe | [Bridge DSL modem IP:192.168.1.254] | {Internet} I'd like to access the Bridge. To [...] read more

CScript Application Error - The instruction at <> referenced memory at 0xffffffff

We have a an error message that is occurring occassionally in our system. The images is available here The instruction at "0x7c82f583" referenced memory at "0xffffffff". The memory could not be read. Click on OK to terminate the program. Any idea what is causing it and how to fix this. [...] read more