Alcatel Lucent AP-103 connected clients do not get Internet access via Telecom Italia ADSL

Be aware: I did not go too deep into this problem. Any further observation is welcome.

A colleague had an ADSL internet access from Telecom Italia attached to a Cisco 857 router, which did work fine. He connected to an Alcatel Lucent AP-103 access point (manufactured by Aruba Networks) to the router. WiFi clients were
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DRAC 4/P reset password on CentOS7

2017 01 30 update: OpenManage packages updated from v8.1 to v8.4. Removed missing dependency warning.

I have a couple of old Dell R200 with CentOS7. I wanted to add two DRAC 4/P remote management cards I buought on ebay (attention: you must also have the mixed PCI-X-PCI-E riser for this, I used SN N4489; and
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Postfix: mail loops back to myself

A quite common problem in postfix is when you find lines like this in your logs:
status=bounced (mail for domain.com loops back to myself)
Most of the time the problem is self-explanatory: domain.com’ MX record says mail should be delivered to the box itself, but postfix is not configured to be the destination
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Fixed: Cisco VPN Client, a Huawei 3G usb key and network sniffing

I ran into a problem widely documented on the Internet. Using a USB 3G Huawei Internet key (in particular for me it is an E1692), for some reason the vpn created with Cisco VPN Client does not work. Indeed, the vpn is regularly established, but no packet is effectively routed through the vpn itself. Googling
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Frank: new packages from Fedora 18

Since the recent release of Fedora 18, almost all Frank packages underwent an update.
I kindly invite Frank users to visit the Frank page and the repository to see what’s new.

The Frank page
The repository

New Horde packages

horde

Horde-5, Imp-6 and the other usual components are available for CentOS6.

The repository

About consistent backup of Veeam and vCenter DB

vmware

I’m making tests with Veeam Backup & Replication v6.1. It is installed on my vCenter VM. I wanted to make sure to backup the vCenter and the Veeam DB in some consistent way. The first choice was VSS, but soon it turns out that it is not possibile
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Yum error connecting IPv6 address

A simple yum update command fails. The scary thing is the error message which tells it’s impossible to connect to an IPv6 address:

# yum update
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 7 – “Failed to connect to 2a02:2498:1:3d:5054:ff:fed3:e91a: Network is unreachable”
Error: Cannot find
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New Horde packages

horde

Horde-4, Imp-5 and the other usual components are available for CentOS6.
The packages were originally derived from OpenSuSE some time ago, using some scripts to convert them to my preferred environment. After that conversion, they are updated independently and do not depend from OpenSuSE anymore.

The repository

New Postfix Admin package

Postfix Admin

This is my latest Postfix Admin package, version 2.3.5. Personally I prefer the shell, but an interface like this is much more relaxing for provider operators (and for the admin too!).
This package includes three patches that implement some functionality that seem to be indispensable for some providers, to the point of changing a
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