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This is the web page of Andy Beverley, where I have put a variety of information that is either difficult to find on the web, or that I want as a handy reference for the future. There are also a couple of other pages at the end that do not fall into these categories! Feel free to make any corrections yourself, or alternatively email me [andy@andybev.com]


Using iptables and PHP to create a captive portal

  • There are various captive portal software packages available (both free and open source). None of the packages I tried did what I wanted and were not particularly customisable. Therefore I created my own using a few iptables rules and PHP (along with a handful of other standard packages). The page below details the steps taken. Using iptables and PHP to create a captive portal


Fair traffic shaping an ADSL line for a local network using Linux

  • Traffic shaping a standard ADSL link in order to share it with a couple of hundred users is a common problem. There are dozens of bits of software and firewall scripts out there already to do this. This particular script is one that I have written. It aims to be as simple as possible, is easily customised, and uses connlimit to identify P2P users. Although the latter is not 100% reliable, it seems to work pretty well and does not fall foul of any new/changed P2P software that happens to some of the other scripts. Fair traffic shaping an ADSL line for a local network using Linux


Setting up a captive portal from scratch using Debian


Nwipe Secure Disk Erase

DBAN is a popular and easy to use disk wiping program. I have extracted the dwipe program that it uses and created a new project called nwipe. This is essentially the same as dwipe, but can be compiled and used in most modern Linux distributions. If you are having trouble running or booting DBAN, then nwipe is for you.


Customise live Ubuntu for internet cafe environment

  • A page with instructions on how to customise a copy of Ubuntu and make it network bootable in order to use within an internet cafe environment. In my opinion this is vastly superior to most arrangements in internet cafes that I use! Customise live Ubuntu for internet cafe environment


Setup SMTP authentication with Postfix running on Debian

  • The original idea of this page was a quick and dirty howto on how to setup SMTP authentication on Postfix. However, it turned out that there was no quick way to achieve what I wanted (encrypted passwords over an unencrypted link, using Courier IMAP as the password database). It also turned out that I was running a non-standard Postfix (it wasn't chrooted). Therefore, as SMTP AUTH and SASL have always been something of a black art to me, I have written a few things down that I have discovered, as well as a quick and dirty howto on setting up a basic SASL database. SMTP authentication and Postfix


Setup clamav with Postfix on Debian Lenny in a chroot


MSUOTC profile pages


Tomatina tomato festival


Random computer notes


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