Category Archives: Network Administration

Solving the openvpn_execve Error in LXC

Problem Description:

When running OpenVPN in an LXC environment, users may encounter a specific error that prevents the OpenVPN service from operating correctly. The error manifests as follows:

Jan 08 00:56:47 fw openvpn[404]: openvpn_execve: unable to fork: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno=11)
Jan 08 00:56:47 fw openvpn[404]: Exiting due to fatal error
Jan 08 00:56:47 fw systemd[1]: openvpn-client@yourvpn.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
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Alice and bob are no longer online

In the past few years Diffie-Hellman has become unsupported in the main internet websites, do you know the implications?

But this is not the only thing happening, many reputable websites, including banks, social networks and search engines have chosen to continue to support for TLSv1.0 and SSLv2 “for compatibility reasons”

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SPAN Port / Mirroring Monitoring

Some network administrators dont know how to handle and correctly install network monitoring applications, IDS and other products who requires network traffic inspection, there is no knowledgment about how span port where designed and it limitations for full-duplex networks.

When the network are in full-duplex mode, the span port have a natural loss of packets that not vary across the hardware.
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