OpenVAS scanner stand-alone configuration for Debian 9 Stretch.

Working example I use for deploy a distributed series of scanners which will be managed by a remote openvas-manager.

Install the scanner software, it will also install redis as a dependency.

apt install openvas-scanner

You need to update the NVT database, which …

How to configure systemd to bring up a virtual network interface from a vlan trunk.

Prerequisite

• Debian 9 (aka Stretch) or probably most of the systemd installations.
• Knowledge of how to manage network setup with systemd.
• No other managers for the network, like network-manager, ifup/down etc.
• Trunked connection to …

Wrap-up about the sr-iov, some passage may be forgotten.

Expose the SR-IOV virtual network interfaces ¹

Search for the pci interfaces (here the server has a 4 port intel network card).

root@srv:~# find /sys -name sriov_numvfs

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:06:00.2/sriov_numvfs …

Examples of systemd network configurations.

These are some collection of systemd network configuration. It does not require anything installed but systemd, not even ifupdown.

note: Debian 9 aka Stretch

Simple DHCP ethernet setup

Interface: eth0, file name is not important, but it must have the .network suffix.

/etc/systemd/network …

Example session with the Thing Magic M5E-C Rfid device

I'm developing an AVR firmware which has to interact with the Thing Magic M5E-C rfid reader. Reading the datasheet may not be enough to get all the info someone need to get right to the point. At least it took me …