Issue: I am unable to connect to a VPN server hosted as a guest on VMware ESXi 5.5. After much troubleshooting it seems that the issue with my PPTP connections is that GRE isn’t making it to my server. In my logs I found the following: vyatta pptpd[2777]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed […]
Category: How-To
Here are some steps I used to restore my saved HP ProCurve configuration file to my new switch using USB and the console cable. Connect your console cable to a computer Load up a program such as putty. Change the connection type to Serial then click Open Your screen will turn black. Press enter 2 […]
I originally preformed similar steps to setup a raspberry pi for this reason, later using a very tiny Ubuntu server install. Using a clean Ubuntu / or / Debian installation (recommended, not necessary) add the following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main to figure out the name of your distribution. A quick command to run […]
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I updated my ESXi 5.1 server to the latest ESXi 5.5 release. The process with smooth as it has always been in the past. After updating the tools for my guests I thought it was only practical to update the hardware level of my machines… I thought wrong. The moment I upgraded the ability to […]
Those of us who virtualize their Windows Systems may have faced this more times then we can count on two hands. And as always to every problem there is a solution that works. Michael J Girard helps us out with some steps to fix this one that has pledged us all. So please stop on […]