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HowFlow — Sometimes you want to write a script that needs the external IP of the router your client is connected to. Here are three possible solutions.

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http://dclavijo.blogspot.com/2008/06/leo-en-el-blog-de-vlan7.html
blogspot.com Whith this small tutorial you can prevent brute force attacks by banning any source ip for 60 seconds if it got 3 consecutive login fails.

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http://tux.50webs.org/tut_smplayer.html
50webs.org SMPlayer gained a lot of popularity lately due to its rich features and the ability to remember settings and time it was stopped for each movie/video file individualy. So you can close it while watching a movie, and next time you open that movie with SMPlayer it will continue from the time you closed it. SMPlayer is built using the Qt4 libraries.

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http://www.linux.com/feature/138744
linux.com Speedometer shows a graph of your current and past network speed in your console, letting you see your network connection's up and downstream speed and history at a glance. You can also use speedometer directly on a file to monitor the download performance and history of a specific download instead of all network traffic.

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http://www.doxpara.com/
doxpara.com Check if your DNS Server is vulnerable against DNS Cache Poisoning

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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-patch-bind-to-avoid-cache-poisoning-debian-etch
howtoforge.com This article explains how you can fix a BIND9 nameserver on a Debian Etch system so that it is not vulnerable anymore to DNS cache poisoning.

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http://dclavijo.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-vpn-ssh-en-hardy.html
blogspot.com A simple and fast soluction to make a vpn with your ubuntu instalation

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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-dhcp-failover-on-centos5.1
howtoforge.com This tutorial will walk you through setting up DHCP fail over on CentOS 5.1 using the default ISC dhcp server, this can easily be adapted to any other Linux distro out there. You will most likely need Failover in environments where network down time can not be tolerated.

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http://dclavijo.blogspot.com/2008/06/howto-como-saber-tu-ip-publica-con-bash_27.html
blogspot.com This is a very simple script that will let you know your public ip address by email or an sms(free)

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http://dclavijo.blogspot.com/2008/07/script-para-enviar-sms-gratuitos.html
blogspot.com Thanks to smsdiscout you can send sms world-wide and free, limited to two per day/ip. The script counts with error handling, so you can call it from other scripts and know what happens.

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