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Recent Posts

OpenVPN on Windows XP and Vista

Just a quick post this time, as I thought this may help others in the same situation I found myself in recently. At work, we’ve been using OpenVPN which works a treat with Unix clients; Windows clients (Vista in particular) were more problematic, though. None of our regular users have admin privileges (for obvious reasons), but this caused problems with the routing setup: users could use the GUI tool, but could not create the necessary routes required to direct traffic ov...

Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 4

This is part 4 of a series on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN with Debian.

Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 3

This is part 3 of a series on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN with Debian.

Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD iostat monitoring with Cacti

I’ve been looking for ages for a tool to parse the output from "iostat" on Linux, and graph it in Cacti. I found a few scripts and templates that did some of what I was looking for (disk I/O etc.), but nothing that gave me the full set of statistics such as queue length, utilisation, service time etc. I finally got round to writing my own set of templates and a data gathering script to provide this information, and it seems to work very well. So that others can benefit, I’...

Blastwave is dead

Earlier on today, the main Blastwave website got replaced by this message :