IPTables: Personal Firewall to protect my laptop

Author: Rp
Date: August 31, 2014
Tags: how-to, iptables, ipv4, ipv6, ipv6tables, linux device driver, networking, ubuntu
Categories: Howto, Linux, Networking

Firewall! What a high sounding word! Means high protection & a safe cocoon for all the newbies. Thats exactly what I did setup in my laptop: A firewall! A personalized firewall. My use cases & reasons were very simple. Every once in a while, I expose my laptop to unsafe open Internet like the cafes, […]

Simple Character Device Driver

Author: Rp
Date: October 4, 2013
Tags: centos, device driver, kernel module, linux, linux character device driver, linux device driver, pseudo character driver, rhel
Categories: device driver, Linux, Linux Kernel

It has been nearly 5 years since I did any work on device drivers. Also since then I have been off C or its sibling languages (on Python now-a-days), I thought first lemme get comfortable with linux kernel (& C, of course) before I can even dream of getting back to my core. In that […]