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User having slowness when connecting vpn to remote office, plugged into a Mikrotik using sfp1 interface on a 100mbps connection. Speeds on site are fine, no packet loss to remote vpn point, but when connected rdp sessions are extremely slow. Eventually I found a fix for this issue. I changed the wan interface mtu value ..

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I needed to configure some NAT rules on a Mikrotik, but the rules only worked from outside in. The customer uses split DNS for the domain, so a local address on the mail client, and it needed a loopback rule. In the end I wrote the rules into the router using the terminal, or ssh. Here’s an ..

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Here are my instructions for ESXI5.5 and VM Version vmx-10 I tried instructions on http://ogris.de/vmware/freebsd10.html but it choked on line 9 with an error. I assume this was instructions for 10.0 only. When manually trying to install them it failed because it could not find perl. I basically changed every reference to perl and then it ..

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I find this command very useful when searching for large files that have filled up a server – du -kscxh * -k     like –block-size=1K -s, –summarize display only a total for each argument -c, –total produce a grand total -x, –one-file-system skip directories on different file systems -h, –human-readable print sizes in human ..

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Editing iptables on a Centos machine? Firstly you can check your rules like so – iptables -L cd /home/richard iptables-save > 08-05-2015.rules vi 08-05-2015.rules (add your rules) iptables-restore < 08-05-2015.rules services iptables save iptables -L – You should now see your ..

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I’m still learning about this, but here are my latest instructions that seem to work well for me. I am going to show you how to upgrade from a 10.0 to 10.1 release. You can check what you are running by – uname -a Firstly, we need to upgrade to the latest version we are ..

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I had problems setting iptables on ubuntu so used a script to get it working and modified it for my specific ports I needed to be open. #!/bin/sh IPT=”/sbin/iptables” # Flush old rules, old custom tables $IPT –flush $IPT –delete-chain # Set default policies for all three default chains $IPT -P INPUT DROP $IPT -P ..

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