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DHCP: dhtest a tool to send customized packets to a DHCP Server

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dhtest is a tool to generate DHCP packets and send it to a DHCP server.
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Systemd: (Auto-) Mount cifs shares

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systemd can mount cifs filesystems at boot or on demand like autofs.

First cifs mount at boot time. Determine the share and the mount point.
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Systemd: Setup a static IP Address

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an very often requested issue. I will show this on Debian Jessie

We assume we want to set a static IP Address for eth0
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Debian: Simple bind setup for test environments

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these steps sets up a bind9 DNS Server on Debian 8 Jessie.

Install necessary packages

root@devdev ~# apt-get install bind9

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Debian: Systemd command line examples

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simply a collection of systemd command line examples. To be continued……

Set hostname + fqdn

hostnamectl

Example
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname yourHost.yourDomain.net
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