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RedHat, Firestorm, 802.11b and rpm2html

I’ve been working on my qmail rpms for RedHat ES/AS/Fedora. I’ve even started some documentation. It’s all on my RedHat page.

I’ve also been working on Firestorm, improving the arp decoder and developing my macwatch arpwatch clone. Hopefully this will appear in the latest Firestorm tree soon.

I recently ditched my aging Linux wireless bridge/router/firewall in favour of a little Linksys device that cost no more than 60 pounds, uses considerably less electricity and makes almost no noise. The price is impressive and even the device seems to work ok. One thing it can’t deal with properly at all is the TCP ECN flag. The web admin port just sends a RST. Can you believe a Cisco company would make this mistake? Yes. I can.

Also, I’ve created an rpm2html index of all the RPMs in my downloads tree. Some are old crap I’ve not bothered deleting yet, but there is some stuff in there that will be useful to someone (not just google).

Gianni will be home from Luxembourg soon.

22/3/2004 Add Comment

Qmail, RedHat and Firestorm

I’ve built some packages of djbs software (qmail, daemontools, djbdns…) for RedHat ES.

I’ve also been working on Firestorm again, primarily on my mac/arp watcher preprocessor. It now saves state between restarts, and reports on more nefarious ethernet/arp. It’ll be included in the next release of Firestorm.

11/12/2003 Add Comment

RedHat have reannounced the dropping support for some old versions (ands April 2004, still lots of warning). I say reannounced due to the fact they originally announced this December 2002. And have had it on their website ever since (very clearly). If you want a supported RedHat distro now (by supported I mean the fixing of security and functional bugs) you either neeed to pay for and use one of the RedHat Enterprise Linuxes, or use the Fedora Project distro. The RHEL versions are released every 18 months and supported for 5 years. Fedora looks to be an ongoing thing, but community supported. Lots of freeloaders are moaning and complaining. They don’t seem to understand that if you don’t have the skills to pay the bills (and patch, fix and recompile software yourself) you pay somebody else to do it for you. This support system is how people are expected to make money from GPL/open source software (and yes, people ARE allowed to make money). It sounds like it’s mostly coming from morons who list “cost” as the main benefit of using GNU/Linux as a server operating system. Get a clue.

11/11/2003 Add Comment

RedHat Advanced server patches

I’ve added a page documenting and providing my patches to the RedHat AS OS. Check it out

9/9/2003 Add Comment

Firestorm ethereal and RedHat Advanced Server

I’ve ported my Ethereal ELOG patch to the latest version (0.9.14) and fixed a bug handling pcap captured alerts. Created Debian debs for powerpc and i386. Matt is working on some RPMS for RedHat 9

RedHat’s latest change of support plans for RedHat Linux seems to be doing what was intended, getting more people to purchase Advanced Server (and the new Enterprise Server and Workstation) rather than leeching off them. Good for RedHat. There have been too many idiots selling RedHat Linux-based solutions expecting the coloured headgear company to do the hard work of beta testing, bug fixing etc.etc. for free.

15/8/2003 Add Comment