User: panky

The Rest of The Middle East already went Opensourc

On: Israel Suspends MS Office Purchases For Now

its just a matter of time before Goliath (MS) gets
his head lopped off!
AMinfo

looks like ur back to helpdesk :(

On: Replaced by Outsourcing -- What's a Geek to Do?

yep

Web developers are not System Programmers

On: The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators

All of a sudden the trend to move to .NET
has empowered the Web developer into thinking
they are the demigods of the development world.

Thats why they need network admins, database
admins and security admins

Thank You Microsoft

Debian Fans looking at GNU/HURD port

On: SCO's Plan Examined

"Info World" Sept Issue has a great article on the Q
if SCO Wins or Looses.
Their bets are on IBM.

Anyhow debian fans can always move to
Debian Hurd !!!

try a LINUX FIREWALL for BLASTER PROOFING YOUR NET

On: Handling User Grown Machines on a Large Network?

Set up a dhcp/iptables/ LINUX firewall . I run a script that monitors the net for a rush of packets (ICMP/port 135/smurf attack) it works great! heres the algorithm in pseudocode - any net admin should be able to put it together. You basically monitor 1000 packets and count the number packets per host and find the packet count per time then dump if they are pushing 90% or more packets while (true) do t0 = timeinseconds packetlist = tcpdump -n -i -c1000 t1 = timeinseconds iplist = grep list|print ipfield| uniq -c totalscanseconds = t1-t0 totalpackets = count(packetlist) if totalpackets greater than 99% iptables -t -nat -A PREROUTING -s offendingip -d 0/0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --todestination and viola! all users flooding the net are automatically forwarded to a you are quarantine website no matter what. All packets are dumped before they go any further. I can handle easily 500 - 700 connections with a dual AMD 1800 cpu / 500meg ram dual nics setup as a dhcp server