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Useful Intel links…
Two links from Intel are particularly useful for desktop/laptop users. First, this tool will find out if the Intel drivers you’re using are up-to-date: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect since many if not most desktops/laptops include some Intel based chipset (even if it isn’t the main CPU), then this is a pretty useful site to use. If you’re interested…
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SSL certs – probably not worth the bits they’re printed on…
This failure of the trusted Certificate Authority (CA) “Comodo”: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/24/fraudulent-certificates-issued-by-comodo-is-it-time-to-rethink-who-we-trust/ highlights something that is becoming more apparent: SSL certificates probably aren’t worth the bits they’re printed on. Forgetting that there is a fairly regular stream of issues with the authorities, companies like GoDaddy issue certificates for all of $12 with nearly instantaneous issuance. That is,…
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Zone Firewall TCP reassembly size
If you get something like this in your Cisco’s IOS firewall log: Mar 12 15:05:33 192.168.1.1 3129: 003121: *Mar 12 15:03:03.195 EST: %FW-4-TCP_OoO_SEG: Dropping TCP Segment: seq:525214740 1415 bytes is out-of-order; expected seq:525170856. Reason: TCP reassembly queue overflow – session 192.168.1.5:53022 to 208.79.250.63:80 on zone-pair ccp-zp-in-out class ccp-protocol-http sometimes accompanied by hangs in downloads, then…