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VMware Workstation flooding network

19 September 2007

I discovered a problem with Virtual machines and traffic being broadcast out all switches and switch ports. Any traffic sent from the host machine to his guest machine was broadcast out all ports on all switches in the subnet.

The VMware Forums have detailed the reason for this problem, but I will summarize.

VMware has a limitation […]

Sandbox a VMware Virtual Machine With iptables

27 August 2007

Occasionally I need to play with an experimental machine using VMware Workstation on my Linux host. The virtualizaton already sanboxes my disks, memory, and other resources. However I only have 3 choices for networking: Bridged, NAT, and host-only.

Bridged is often unacceptable for experimentation due to it’s unrestricted nature. It also […]

Spam statistics and spamd

22 December 2006

I discovered today that I left my procmail deliveries logging all kinds of information. I had logs that went back a month and a half. I thought why not parse them up, and generate some stats.

My procmailrc sorts most of my mail into folders for me. When I was writing the script […]

Becoming a Tor server

10 October 2006

The flat green plateau was a bittorrent I left on, and the massive mountain is Tor. Last week I used quite a bit of bandwidth on my colocated server. Part of it was due to leaving a bittorrent of a few episodes of “Weeds” running for a few days. Those sure are popular, […]

Dream Job

8 July 2005

If only I could move to Boston.
FSF Sys Admin