How to Download mms:// (MultiMedia Stream) Video?

If you are not able to download the mms://a-web-site/stream_video.wmv
and only able to play via streaming. But you might have slow speed,

Then, you can use mencoder to download above file.

$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o out_video_file.wmv mms://a-web-site/stream_video.wmv

PS. If you want to view via streaming, you can use mplayer:

$ mplayer mms://a-web-site/stream_video.wmv

Denial of Service (DoS) Prevention

You can prevent DoS on you machine, by running following
commands as root user. Or you can put following lines
in a shell script and run it as root.

# shut some DoS stuff down
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts

# increase the local port range
echo 1024 65535 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range

# increase the SYN backlog queue
echo 2048 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps

How to stop certain network to start at boot time in Fedora?

For example, if you do not want wlan0 to be started at boot time,
just move ifcfg-wlan0 file from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory
to any other directory.

I am telling not to remove the file, because you can start
wlan0 interface after copying the file back to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
whenever you want. And give command

# service network restart

Fixing tsocks 1.8 Beta

I was trying to use tsocks 1.8 beta5 on Fedora 8. After installing
I was able to use it. But, on next day, what I found is: I was not
able to access any website, messenger service. Although, I was
able to ping websites. Then I realized the tsocks is interfering
with direct connection to Internet. I was not using ssh tunnel at
that moment.

I have created patch for Makefile and tsocks script.

$ vi patch_Makefile

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< prefix=/usr

---

> prefix=/usr/local

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< libdir = /lib

---

> libdir = ${prefix}/lib

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< CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall

---

> CFLAGS = -O3 -Wall



$ vi patch_tsocks
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< # /usr/bin/tsocks program [program arguments...]

---

> # $PREFIX/bin/tsocks program [program arguments...]

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< # /usr/bin/tsocks telnet www.foo.org

---

> # $PREFIX/bin/tsocks telnet www.foo.org

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< # . /usr/bin/tsocks on

---

> # . $PREFIX/bin/tsocks on

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< # . /usr/bin/tsocks off

---

> # . $PREFIX/bin/tsocks off

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< # source /usr/bin/tsocks on

---

> # source $PREFIX/bin/tsocks on

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< # source /usr/bin/tsocks off

---

> # source $PREFIX/bin/tsocks off

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< # /usr/bin/tsocks

---

> # $PREFIX/bin/tsocks

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> PREFIX="/usr/local"

>

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< export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libtsocks.so"

---

> export LD_PRELOAD="$PREFIX/lib/libtsocks.so"

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< echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep -q "/usr/lib/libtsocks\.so" || \

< export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libtsocks.so $LD_PRELOAD"

---

> echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep -q "$PREFIX/lib/libtsocks\.so" || \

> export LD_PRELOAD="$PREFIX/lib/libtsocks.so $LD_PRELOAD"

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< export LD_PRELOAD=`echo -n $LD_PRELOAD | sed 's/\/usr\/lib\/libtsocks.so \?//'`

---

> export LD_PRELOAD=`echo -n $LD_PRELOAD | sed 's/\$PREFIX\/lib\/libtsocks.so \?//'`

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< export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libtsocks.so"

---

> export LD_PRELOAD="$PREFIX/lib/libtsocks.so"

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< echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep -q "/usr/lib/libtsocks\.so" || \

< export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libtsocks.so $LD_PRELOAD"

---

> echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep -q "$PREFIX/lib/libtsocks\.so" || \

> export LD_PRELOAD="$PREFIX/lib/libtsocks.so $LD_PRELOAD"


How to apply patch and install tsocks?

$ tar -zxvf tsocks-1.8beta5.tar.gz

$ cd tsocks-1.8

$ ./configure

$ patch Makefile < patch_Makefile

$ patch tsocks < patch_tsocks

$ make

$ sudo make install

PS: If you do not find patches working, please mail me
at mitesh[dot]singh[dot]jat[at]gmail[dot]com . I will
send both patches to you.