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  • Managing Disk Partition with the parted Tool in CentOS 7

    As a system administrator, sometimes you may require to manage partitions of your CentOS/Red Hat Linux Operating System. Partition management is always a risky task. But there are some useful tools those are so helpful to manage CentOS/Red Hat Linux disk partition easily. In my previous article, I discussed how to manage CentOS/Red Hat 7 HDD partitions with the fdisk utility. The fdisk tool is only eligible to manage MBR partition table. But GPT partition table is now becoming more popular. On the other hand, the fdisk tool cannot resize (shrink or extend) a partition. To overcome these limitations, we can use another partition management tool named parted which can handle GPT partition table as well as can resize disk partitions. In this article, we will know how to create, delete, resize and rescue partitions in CentOS 7/Red Hat 7 Linux with the parted partition manager tool. The parted Utility The parted is open source and command line utility that is used to manage hard disk partitions. It supports multiple partition table formats including MS-DOS (MBR) and GPT. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. Installing parted [...]

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    CentOS 7 Partition Management with fdisk Utility |   February 11, 2019

    CentOS or Red Hat Linux is a popular server operating system to the system administrators. Almost all the system admins or IT guys who play with mail server, file server, proxy server and so on are so known with CentOS or Red Hat Linux and cannot go a single day without this operating system. The guys who are also wish to be a system admin should be familiar with CentOS or Red Hat operating system. In my previous article, I [...]

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    SSL/TLS certificate is required to encrypt data sent over internet communication. Without encryption, the sent data can be hacked by the middle man attack. SSL/TLS certificate is usually a pair key, public key and private key, solution where data is encrypted with public key and decrypted with private key. In public communication, public key is required to be signed by a CA (certificate authority) but in private communication, there is no need to be signed by any CA. If we [...]

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    MikroTik IPIP Tunnel with IPsec (Site to Site VPN) |   March 18, 2018

    VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides a secure tunnel across a public network. A private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network using VPN Tunnel as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik provides IPIP tunnel that is used to create a site to site VPN. IPIP tunnel is a simple protocol that encapsulates IP packets in IP to make a tunnel between two routers. To encapsulate [...]

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    MikroTik Site to Site SSTP VPN Setup with RouterOS Client |   May 14, 2020

    VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across a public network. So, a private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network through VPN tunnel as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) transports PPP tunnel over TLS channel. SSTP uses TLS channel over TCP port 443. So, SSTP VPN can virtually pass through all firewalls and proxy servers. Because of using TLS [...]

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    MikroTik PPPoE Setup with Radius Server Prepaid Billing System |   December 23, 2017

    MikroTik PPPoE Server is popularly used in ISP Companies to maintain user connection. Along with MikroTik PPPoE Service it is a better idea to make a prepaid billing system with Radius Server. MikroTik User Manager Radius Server is a user authentication and accounting application that gives the ISP Company ability to manage PPPoE user’s connection with proper bandwidth management as well as their prepaid billing system with scratch card. So, any ISP Company can turn a smart network system with [...]

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    MikroTik Router Web Proxy Configuration |   August 28, 2016

    A Proxy Server is usually placed between users and the internet so that the proxy server can track the activities of any user. Formerly, a proxy server was mainly used for caching the static content of any web server because the internet speed was too slow. So, users would get high speed for browsing as if they were browsing a local server. But nowadays the internet bandwidth has increased. So, the proxy server is usually not used for web caching [...]

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    GNS3 Installation and Configuration Step by Step in Windows |   September 14, 2018

    GNS3 (Graphical Network Simulator) is one of the most popular network simulator software used by hundreds of thousands of network engineers worldwide to emulate, configure, test and troubleshoot virtual and real networks. GNS3 supports a large number of vendors such as MikroTik, Cisco, Juniper, Windows, Linux and many other vendors. GNS3 can be installed on Windows, Linux and MAC Operating System. In this article, I will show how to download and install GNS3 application in Windows Operating System. I will [...]

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    VMware ESXi 7.0 Installation and Basic Configuration |   December 1, 2020

    VMware vSphere is the pioneer in virtualization world. No other virtualization software is as feature rich as VMware vSphere. More than 500,000 enterprise data center are now using VMware vSphere. It is expected that most of the data center will be turned into virtualization in near future. As VMware vSphere provides more feature than any other virtualization software, it is also expected that demand of VMware vSphere will increase day by day. VMware ESXi is the foundation of VMware vSphere [...]

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    MikroTik Multiple SSID with Separate LAN and DHCP Server |   October 30, 2019

    One of the most amazing features of MikroTik Wireless Router is creating Multiple SSID (Virtual AP) on a physical wireless interface. So, creating a Guest WiFi AP with separate LAN block, SSID and DHCP Server is so easy using MikroTik WiFi AP Router. In the previous article, I discussed how to configure MikroTik WiFi Access Point on physical wireless interface with DHCP Server using hAP Lite (RB941-2nD) Wireless Router. In this article I will discuss how to configure a Virtual [...]

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