I got this weired message while trying to save a configuration : #wr mem Building configuration… % Warning: Saving this config to nvram may corrupt any network management or security files stored at the end of nvram. Continue? [no]: no % Configuration buffer full, can’t add command: ************************************************************************ Looks scary at first, but normally it…
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I had some trouble today at office with monitoring flows going through a MLS switch. The Nfsen collector was working well for our routers, but I came to realize there were something definitely wrong with the traffic going through a Cisco 6500 switch. The traffic reported was way below the real one. After some research,…
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As I work on security, I used to use Nessus on my openSUSE system. But it seems that Tenable Network Security dropped support for the client on our favorite distribution. At least, for some reason, they stopped making an universal statically linked binary (though they keep doing it for the server part) and it hasn’t…
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What is this ? It is said that this change is useless and won’t make any difference. In a few words, you consider that the request was stupid. On that point, and also as a Gnome user, I agree. In that case, why would you change anything ? No one is going to be satisfied…
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I am using the 2.6.30 kernel sources from Kernel:linux-next and noticed that it has not yet been patched against the ’sock_sendpage()’ NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability. The threat is serious as it could allow a local user to gain root privileges. Those who compile their own 2.6.x kernel should apply this patch (from Linus, check there…
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