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3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 54 Mbps 11g Firewall Router

This 3Com product has many functions: router, firewall, adsl modem, wireless access point, 4 port switch. 3Com chose to give two names to its products: a name for the market (as the long name in the title), which identifies the purpose of the product and is not changed when a new model replaces the older one, and a model name, a number which identifies the specific model.
The "ADSL" term in the name is particularly useful to specify that it's a adsl modem too, with a RJ-11 port that would connect the router directly to the phone line, through a RJ-11 cable, just like any adsl modem; in fact I found several routers that were capable of routing the adsl signal but were equipped with a RJ-45 port instead of a RJ-11 port: they were not DSL modems and needed to be connected to an external DSL modem. Checking the rear of the product, maybe on the user guide, can help making sure the router is a DSL modem too.
I will review two 3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 54 Mbps 11g Firewall Router models, the older 3CRWDR100A-72 and the newer 3CRWDR101A-75.

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Posted by: z24 | Sun, Sep 22 2013 | Category: /hardware | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: dsl, firewall, hardware, password, router, wireless

Create a VPN to connect from an Android client to a home Windows XP server

If you want to connect to your home computer using rdp when you are not home and are connected to the internet, you have to open a port on your firewall; changing the standard rdp port on both your server and your firewall increases your security (or decreases your unsecurity); configuring a Virtual Private Network (VPN) increases your security even more, and you can close the rdp port on your firewall: in fact, when you connect your remote client to your vpn, your remote client comes inside your LAN so that you can remote access your server from inside the LAN.

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Posted by: Z24 | Sun, Sep 22 2013 | Category: /windows | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: android, client-server, configuration, rdp, router, software, vpn, windows, xp

How to rename multiple files from bash

Rename all *html files to *test:

for x in `ls *html`; do mv $x `echo $x | sed -e "s/html/test/"`; done

Bash for:

for var in some-list ; do command ; done

Posted by: Z24 | Wed, May 04 2011 | Category: /linux | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: command-line, linux, programming, script, shell

Execute a command at shutdown

To dismount TrueCrypt volumes at shutdown and reboot time, I created a script, put it in/etc/init.d/ and symlinked it into the needed /etc/rc?.d/ directories using update-rc.d.
Here is the detail:

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Posted by: Z24 | Wed, May 04 2011 | Category: /linux | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: command-line, linux, programming, script, shell