The DrayTek AP 800 is a 2.4Ghz 802.11n Access Point with the ability to make it dual band, 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, with an optional USB dongle. It supports multi-SSID with VLAN tagging, built in RADIUS server, per-SSID/station bandwidth control and can act as a bridge, repeater etc. As with all of these SOHO products it’d built on Linux. Which means somewhere there is a root shell lurking. The DrayTek AP
A few days ago I decided to create a VPS, known as a “droplet”, with DigitalOcean. They claim a deployment time of 55 seconds. And 55 seconds after hitting the button I had a Debian 7 x64 droplet running. The plan was to migrate my current VPS to this DigitalOcean droplet. The first task I always undertake with any Linux deployment is to create a custom stripped down kernel patched
The other day I had someone ask if there’s a nice solution to the following problem: Multiple web development virtual machines but only one external IP address. The quick solution is to port forward on different ports to each virtual machine. For example 81 goes to VM1, 82 goes to VM2, 83 goes to VM3 etc. Which granted, would work, but isn’t a “neat” solution. Using mod_proxy under Apache is