Today I decided to reinstall my OpenSolaris server and actually do something with it this time. I’ll be moving my proxy, webserver and nagios server to it soon, but first I need to get the basics running. In the not-so-near future I’ll probably integrate it with my LDAP server to allow a single authentication for my users. I do NOT intend to install X or anything fancy, so if you need that you should look elsewhere.

The OpenSolaris distribution I chose was  Nexenta: it is basically an OpenSolaris Kernel with GNU application userland, meaning familiar tools for anyone that’s used to linux. Plus, it has apt-get. I think that is enough to explain my choice.

By the end of this post, we should have a working Nexenta server with networking, a configured ZFS pool and a functional zone. Now, on to the installation!

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Existem algumas situações que exigem que você use o ssh atravessando um servidor proxy; como o cliente do openssh não suporta esse tipo de operação nativamente, você tem 2 opções: utilizar outro cliente (como o putty) ou então instalar um programa chamado proxy-connect, que permite usar o ssh (juntamente com scp e sftp) através de um proxy.

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You might have been told before that you can’t sniff traffic on a switched network, since the network switches only send the packets to the destination host instead of broadcasting them to all ports the way old hubs did. That is partially true. There are, however, methods to “trick” the other hosts into sending data to your computer, and I’m going to describe one of those methods on this article.

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