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Posts tagged security
On Hacking the Nintendo Wii…
Jun 14th
This past weekend I was visiting a friend’s house and he had a modified Nintendo Wii. Being curious I started asking him questions and at the end of this I basically rushed home to start modifying my own Nintendo Wii. Now, I had read a bit into all this before but never ended up modifying my Wii because it seemed to be quite a pain. However, after doing a bit more research I found out this process was a lot easier then I thought it would be. I basically grabbed a 512MB SanDisk SD card, placed some files from BootMii on there and within 5 minutes had the Homebrew Channel installed on my Wii. Now this is sort of where I got all confused, fortunately my friend came over and helped me out.
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Gentoo: iptables Multiport Module
Feb 10th
After finally talking myself into re-doing iptables on all of our servers, I came across an issue where the options “-m multiport --dports 80,443” wouldn’t work. It kept spitting back “iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.”
What you need to check for is the that the multiport module within the kernel has been selected and compiled in. You can find this option under:
Networking support —>
Networking options —>
Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter) —>
Make sure “Advanced netfilter configuration” is turned on, and then it’ll be under:
Core Netfilter Configuration —>
“multiport” Multiple port match support
I ended up having to recompile my kernel, but I’m glad I was able to figure this one out. The people in the #netfilter channel on Freenode were as helpful as usual (and by that I mean they were completely useless). The multiport module is great when you want to open multiple ports without having to use multiple commands, or for organizational purposes want to group multiple ports open. As from my example above you can see I’ve set port the HTTP and HTTPS port in the same line.
