Category: Technical

Allow Cisco iOS Outbound PPTP Through NVI NAT

Howdy all, it’s been a while but I found this and figured it was well worth sharing. I can’t say I found the answer to this issue online, and once I got it it seemed easy which might be why. To explain the title further, this is a home or small branch office internet connection …

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Adaptec RAID controller on VMware ESXi 5.x without a custom build

I’ve built an VMWare ESXi Hypervisor server and my research showed the Adaptec 6805 RAID card as compatible but once I have finished building the system I got to the storage configuration my hard drives failed to appear. Not happy. So my initial Googleing showed that I needed to create a custom installation media, figuring that …

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Channel 7 Perth Reception Problem

Absolutely no way! My MythTV server has been running for 5 years perfectly. I gave it a de-dust and rewired a couple of drives on the weekend, and then channel 7 was gone. Figuring it had to be something I’ve done, I shutdown, reseated the tuners, confirmed wiring connections, removed tv surge protector and still …

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Create An Anonymous FTP Upload Server

This is the point where I would normally explain what to do, but this guy has done such a good job I thought I should give credit where due. See his page at http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsecur/article.php/3434071/Build-a-Secure-FTP-Dropbox-with-vsftpd.htm