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Please find below a step by step process to configure the PIX Firewall from scratch. A simple scenario is given here where you have a corporate network with a PIX Firewall connected to the Internet through the Outside Interface, Internal Network through the Inside interface and DMZ through the DMZ Network. This paper would assist [...]

The “show interfaces” Command
The show interfaces command will show you the basic status of the PIX’s interfaces. I’ve included some sample output below:
pixfw# show interface
interface ethernet0 “outside” is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is i82559 ethernet, address is 0009.e89c.fdaa
IP address 97.158.253.25, subnet mask 255.255.255.248
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000 Kbit [...]

Enabling your PIX to be a DHCP server for your home network requires very few statements. First you have to enable the feature on the desired interface, which is usually the “inside” interface. The next step is to set the range of IP addresses the PIX’s “inside” interface will manage, and finally, you need to [...]

The telnet command can be used to configure your PIX to accept telnet sessions. By default, it allows connections on the inside interface from the 192.168.1.0 network, as seen below:
telnet 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 inside
Of course, if you change the IP address of the inside interface, you may have to change the statement above.
You can also allow [...]

With the growth of the Internet, e-mail has quickly become the main vehicle to spread information through the public at large. As the demand for fast, cheap and reliable e-mail grows, more individuals are turning to Linux to provide a fast, cheap and reliable solution.
sendmail was originally developed by Eric Allman, in 1979, as “delevermail”, [...]

VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology. VMware can run on any standard x86 hardware and can support 64-bit guest operating systems including Windows Linux and Sun Solaris. VMware server can [...]

• Redhat/Win2k Dualboot •
This How-To will assume that you have installed Redhat linux once before,
you have installed win2k once before, and that all your data has been backed up.
If your data is not backed up, do NOT follow this How-To.
Update: I’ve found a similar but better method of doing this. The unfortunate
detail is that I [...]

You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps.
Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.
Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password
Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user
Step # 4: Setup new root password
Step [...]

This tutorial describes how to set up MySQL master-master replication. We need to replicate MySQL servers to achieve high-availability (HA). In my case I need two masters that are synchronized with each other so that if one of them drops down, other could take over and no data is lost. Similarly when the first one [...]

First download the script from the following link
http://bash.cyberciti.biz/backup/backup-mysql-database-server-2/
1) To backup databases file /backup dir and later pick up by your script
2) You can skip few databases from backup!
Open file backup.bash.txt and customize it:
MyUSER=”YOUR-MYSQL-USER” # mysql username
MyPASS=”YOUR-MYSQL-USER-PASSWORD” # mysql password
MyHOST=”localhost” # mysql Hostname
Optional setup the name of database which you do not wish to backup:
IGGY=”test db2 [...]