You can use an old PC as a firewall at home (and at work, I guess). It’s not that hard to do if you have a basic knowledge of Linux, DHCP, and IPtables, but that may be saying a lot.…
Mixed-platform LANs and Spanning Tree
We just an HP C-class blade chassis which included two GbE2c network modules. These modules are Nortel switches running AlteonOS that connect the blades to the rest of your network. When I turned these guys up the other day, every…
The Principle of Least Privilege
The Principle of Least Privilege says that users or applications should only have access to the what it needs to access and that access should be as limited as possible. This idea can be applied to any number of things,…