Posts with #network

Linux

Sun, May 31, 2026

3 min read

How We Set Up Our KVM Hypervisor: From Bare Metal to Production-Ready VM Host

Detailed walkthrough of building a dedicated KVM/libvirt hypervisor with XFS tuning, hugepages, 10GbE tuning, and automation.

Wed, December 17, 2025

1 min read

Configuring console log messages

How to configure and manage console log messages on network devices.

Linux

Tue, December 16, 2025

2 min read

Installing eve-ng on ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Step-by-step guide to installing EVE-NG on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bare metal server for running network labs.

Tue, December 16, 2025

1 min read

Setting hostname on a switch

Lab guide for setting hostname on a Cisco switch in EVE-NG with IOL images.

Linux

Mon, December 8, 2025

2 min read

Netlab setup on ubuntu,debian

How to Install NetLab.Tools on Ubuntu/Debian for managing network simulation and testing scenarios.

Linux

Sun, March 29, 2020

2 min read

OpenVPN: Bad compression stub decompression header byte: 102 RESOLVED

OpenVPN 2.4 became the default version your connections use. Due to incompatibility in compression settings, data traffic is halted but connection is not dropped.

Linux

Sun, March 29, 2020

1 min read

error: the plugin does not support import capability when attempting to import openvpn config file

Open your .ovpn and comment the following line: route remote_host 255.255.255.255 net_gateway

Linux

Mon, September 9, 2019

1 min read

Configure NFS SERVER

Export your /public directory and make sure it should have read-only permission, mount /public permanently on /mnt/secure.

Linux

Sun, September 30, 2018

1 min read

Setting default gateway from virsh-net command line

Generally when a network is configured from virsh-define for a particular range say 192.168.4.0 it gateway will be automatically assigned to 192.168.4.1.

Linux

Mon, April 16, 2018

1 min read

Openvswith with kvm bridge network.

Openvswitch is a virtual switch production level software, that can be used in virtual switch in VM environments like kvm, virtualbox etc.

Linux

Fri, April 6, 2018

1 min read

Openvswitch on fedora with kvm.

Openvswitch is the software used on both physical and virtual environments to implement L2 switching.

Linux

Thu, April 5, 2018

2 min read

kvm/qemu pxe boot setup on fedora.

KVM supports diskless booting of operating systems over a network, kvm default network can be configured to act as a pxe server.

Linux

Fri, March 16, 2018

2 min read

Configuring dhcp static ip assignment to kvm host vms

Libvirtd by default uses dnsmasq to provide ip address for kvm host vms automatically when libvirtd daemon is started.

Linux

Tue, March 6, 2018

1 min read

wireshark does not show interfaces when run as normal user

wireshark is a packet analyzer tool used to troubleshoot network issues, when run as a normal user it does not list the interfaces to fix this follow the below steps.

Linux

Fri, February 23, 2018

1 min read

Setting up a kvm bridge on fedora 26

Configure a Linux software bridge for KVM virtual machines on Fedora 26.

Linux

Mon, February 19, 2018

1 min read

Make ssh connections faster on ip based access

Disable SSH DNS lookups to speed up connections when connecting via IP address.

Linux

Mon, February 19, 2018

1 min read

Setting up simple mail server with sendmail + dovecot + squirrelmail on fedora 26

Set up a complete mail server with Sendmail, Dovecot, and Squirrelmail on Fedora 26.

Linux

Thu, February 15, 2018

1 min read

Fixing fedora 26 update issue on static ip configuration

Fix DNS resolution issue when using static IP configuration on Fedora 26 that prevents dnf updates.