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Doing 802.1q trunking to an Ethernet switch is really easy. I describe two methods - a text only one for servers, and a GUI one for desktops. The VLAN number that an interface uses always gets appended to the physical interface after a dot, so for instance an interface eth0 using VLAN number 99 would be called eth0.99. The instructions below all assume you want to connect to vlan 99 - change the number as required. Server console method Install the vlan package: sudo apt-get install

Thought I would make a post in the hopes others will find it useful. :) I finally got around to messing with Hurricane Electric's IPv6 Tunnel Broker service. This is how I got things running on my 10.04 Server with a pfSense FW. 1/ After you request your tunnel from HE time to get things setup. 2/ I added the following to my /etc/network/interfaces file.

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I've noticed on brainstorm.ubuntu.com that there are a few people who would like to have an ubuntu-desktop-minimal edition instead of the default ubuntu-desktop which bundles software that not all of us use. I'm one of those users who likes to build his system from the ground up, so I wrote this simple post-install script which will give you a complete minimal desktop. After running this script your system will look the same as a fresh install of ubuntu just without all the added

Begin by determining where you want your repositories to reside. You'll need plenty of drive space. Just as an example I'm mirroring Ubuntu ...

Description: Apt-Cacher NG is a caching proxy specialized for package files from GNU/Linux distributors, primarily for Debian and Debian based distributions (like Ubuntu). This means that if you ha…

Gina and Adam P. told me, when I first started at Lifehacker, that their to-do lists were simple text files. "Crazy Amish reactionaries," I thought. Now I'm on Team Plain Text, and I won't go back. Here's why you might join, too.

IPv6 is good and we all know that. I has been talked for years but practically it hasnt found much success. Verizon made some noise last ye...

I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat ) and can't install OpenLDAP successfully. I am following the official documentation, (which is only up to date for 10.4) at https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html I get up to loading the backend.example.com.ldif but this fails as follows $ sudo ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f backend.example.com.ldif SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started SASL username:

Pardon me if this is not in the right place...noob here to this forum. I have been trying without absolutely no luck whatsoever to install OpenLDAP on absolutely fresh installs of Ubuntu Server 10.04 and 10.10. I have followed every possible HOWTO that can be found on a google search and in the Ubuntu Community and Server Guide pages. Most HOWTO's outside of Ubuntu Community and Server Guides offer a moment to test your configurations and with each test using ssh to the localhost and ssh