Fat of the LAN

Fat of the LAN is your portal to useful open source information. This site is the culmination of my many hours of frustrating research while trying to implement open source solutions. I've gathered many of the useful tools and guides that I have found here to help others who are searching for the same information. I've also created a discussion forum so that information can be widely disseminated on a variety of topics that frankly, I feel is lacking elsewhere. But I need your help. If you have a question, please post it. No one will reply if you don't post, and if no one replys, no information is transfered, thus killing the spirit of open source software. I would also like any contributions that you feel would make a nice addition to the site. So go ahead and look around, and I hope that you find what you've been searching for.

Some of the highlights of Fat of the LAN:

Support without having to pay fees or banner adds.
The ability to discuss problems or ideas with others.
Pass along some vital information to people who need it.
Extensive documentation to allow for easy implementaion of your projects.

I hope you will enjoy using Fat of the LAN.

The Fat of the LAN team.

On a day like today, in:

1247	Robin Hood is bled to death by treacherous nun in Yorkshire.

1787	Birth of Isabella Baumfree, New York. Freed in 1827 by the New York State Emancipation Act. After a divine revelation in 1843, changed her name to Sojouner Truth and began speaking for emancipation of African-Americans and women's rights.

1872	Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is arrested and jailed for voting in an election.

1909	The U.S. invades Nicaragua and later overthrows its elected president.

1936	Union organizing in General Motors plants begins with Atlanta sit-down strike.

1951	Former Chicago Cubs first baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is first baseball player to oppose the draft.

1964	Shortly after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights work in the United States, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover begins directing a new campaign to discredit King as "a most notorious liar."

Written by Tobias on February 4th 2008

Setting Up 802.1x Authentication with Debian Linux and FreeRadius - Part1 -

I just added a new how-to on setting Up 802.1x Authentication with Debian Linux and FreeRadius

It's a complete walk though on installing from source and configuring FreeRADIUS for use with PEAP. You'll be up surfing the net securely on your laptop in no time!

See it here:
Setting Up 802.1x Authentication with Debian Linux and FreeRadius

And remember, all articles are up for discussion in the forums.

Written by Tobias on January 12th 2006

Install Asterisk VOIP PBX on Debian.

I just added a new how-to on installing Asterisk on Debian Linux in a pure voice over IP environment.

It's a complete walk though on installing from source and configuring Asterisk to use Broadvoice as a VOIP gateway. You'll be up and making calls over the internet in no time

See it here:
Install Asterisk on Debian

And remember, all articles are up for discussion in the forums.

Written by Tobias on June 6th 2005

Fat of the LAN Upgraded!

The Fat of the LAN server has been upgraded to a new Dell PowerEdge server. It is now also co-lo'd in a cabinet at Infinity Internet so things should be much faster now.

UPDATE - Well the server died today. I think the mainboard gacked, but fortunately I had another identical server on hand that hadn't gone out yet. Just swapped out the drives and put it back in the rack so Dell can repair this one. Expect an outage in a day or two.