Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
I am using CentOS Stream for one of my VMs and encountered this error. I have not updated my Stream in a while, but this is really annoying thing to deal with. It is not hard to fix, but very inconvient. The commands below are what worked for me. For some articles online you will […]
I have been using Univention Corporate Server. Now, I am in a process of switching to FreeIPA. This post is how I installed FreeIPA on Rocky Linux. This post assumption is there is a fresh Rocky Linux installed. I am planning to use FreeIPA solely for LDAP purposes, so I am skipping the DNS part
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There are some instances that I have to use macvlan driver to place the container in a separate VLAN or zone within my network. Also, I have some containers that need to have its own IP address. I really didn’t have a use case where I need the host to access the container that was
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I have been using VM templates for a while to instantly create a VM and these VM templates has a fixed size vDisk. I wanted to create a smaller vDisk template let’s say 5GB of vDisk. When I do a full clone, I would simply resize the vDisk to a desire vDisk size. I am
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I bought a CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD UPS for my new built NAS. I didn’t get the optional RMCARD205 card which is at the time of this writing cost $160 on Amazon. I could get a new UPS with that price, so I opted out and sticking with the USB option. Now, as the title says, I
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Switching my build from Debian 10 to CentOS 8 due to Clevis’ bug in Debian. Since enabling SNMP v3 on CentOS is a bit different than Debian based OS, I thought I would post how I got mine configured. To install SNMP on a CentOS 8 system After installing the SNMP, the service should remain
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I bought a Dell H200 for my new NAS build and found out that Red Hat had removed the driver for SAS2008. The eBay seller and YouTuber Art of Servers posted a video instruction if you are installing CentOS 8 with LSI SAS2008. However, my situation is I already have installed CentOS 8.2 to my
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This is going to be a really short post. I was trying to spin up a CentOS 8 VM to revisit FreeIPA and during the installation, I could not pass the INSTALLATION SUMMARY page as shown in the picture above. I have enabled the interface and got an IP address and the image could not
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For SNMPv3 installation, see post SNMPv3 on Raspberry. The Simple Network Management Protocol or SNMP is used for monitoring the state, hardware, software of a device. SNMP is so simple to enable, yet provides tons of information about the device. To enable SNMP on a Raspberry Pi or any Linux in general, the SNMP services
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