tactical vim

The Juniper Netscreen is a nice firewall that also has builtin VPN capabilities; however, it is really a Windows client centric device and isn’t that much fun trying to get it working with random OS X, Linux and handheld (i.e. Treo) devices. It’s much easier to purchase a Cisco 3000 series VPN device to put behind the firewall, configure it and the Netscreen and walk away,

The following Netscreen commands will setup all the policy needs to allow PPTP and IPSec packets to traverse the firewall to the Cisco, including NAT-T support.

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Fedora Core 3 and RT2x00 CVS Howto (RT2500 Focus)

I. Obtain and prep kernel sources
II. Obtain CVS code, compile and install
III. Configure non-PCMCIA system (USB, etc)
IV. Configure PCMCIA system
V. Configure the network interface
VI. Finishing up, rebooting
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This was done on build #322 of the kernel firmware, so your mileage may vary.

1) telnet to your homepod
2) cd to /lib/modules/
3) backup cfgSTA (cp cfgSTA cfgSTA.orig)
4) edit cfgSTA (‘vi’ usage outside the scope here, try Google)

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