Category Archives: Networking

Changing Belgacoms BBOX/EDPnet’s Sagem F@st 3464 IP

I recently (today) got the VDSL modem from EDPnet. Basically it looks like it’s the exact same modem and firmware used by Belgacom, which is crap, but I won’t go into that now Check this great blog post by Patrick … Continue reading

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Speedtest.edpnet.be Bash script

This script is for people using the Belgium provider EDPnet. I wrote it to get a couple of weeks worth of download speed data, because my download speed regulary drops dramatically. The script is meant to be run in the … Continue reading

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Scanning for SSL-hosts and automatic downloading of SSL-certificates

Save the below script, for instance as get-cert-info.sh, make it executable and do: $ ./get-cert-info.sh ips-domains.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 … Continue reading

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Use OpenLDAP with RSA SecurID 7.1 and Juniper SA SSL-VPN appliance

For a client I had to integrate a Juniper SA SSL-VPN appliance with RSA SecurID 7.1 server for strong authentication. This is pretty straightforward except for the fact that with only these two components you can’t really do any sensible … Continue reading

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TextMate Blog Bundle behind a proxy

At some of my clients sites I use a SSH port forward to a Squid proxy running on my own server (which is connected to the Net). This way applications can use this proxy by connecting to localhost on TCP … Continue reading

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iTunes Syncing with TuneRanger

In my house we have one iPod, one iPhone, an AppleTV and two Macs with iTunes libraries. I have been using Rsync and Unison in the past to sync these libraries. Although I scripted parts of the process, it was … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Leopard and VLAN (dot1q) trunking

So I had to configure a bunch of Cisco switches, routers, Juniper firewalls, a Juniper, SSL-gateways and some Unix servers running Radius and RSA SecurID. Pretty hands-on stuff which I don’t get to do much anymore (at work), but it … Continue reading

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