Dec 18
ShareThere are basically 3 reasons why you should aggregate your links… Reliability/Redundancy Additional Bandwidth You have extra NICs (network interface cards) you aren’t using that are collecting dust An unlikely spot for aggregation: One place I used link-aggregation for a while was on my HTPC. Since I run my HTPC on its built-in wireless 2.4ghz …
Nov 07
ShareHaving problems keeping track of all the syslog messages in your network? Or better yet, do you have a TON of network devices that you need to monitor for syslog messages and can’t find a good way to keep track of it? I did…..and it was becoming a problem. I was doing it the …
Nov 04
Share“Smokeping” is a great program in the Ubuntu repositories for monitoring latency to both local targets on your LAN and remote targets out on the internet. It displays all the info it collects in wonderfully illustrative graphs built using rrdtool on the CGI-based web-accessible script included with the program. I’ve been using this program for …
Nov 03
ShareInssider is a nifty little program I learned about from a co-worker. It is a relatively simple no-frills program that will show you what your various wifi bands look like when it comes to congestion and overlap. As a side note I could kill people who don’t use the standard channels. This is the first …
Nov 03
Share The road to becoming a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) is long and winding; filled with countless hours of study and most likely several attempts at the practical lab exam. At some point all those who are on the CCIE path will consider putting together their own practice pod. Since I have recently done …
Sep 21
ShareDo you have another machine that acts as your fileserver? Do you want to automount your samba share so you can access the files on another machine seamlessly? Here’s how to do it in 4 easy steps on Ubuntu 11.04: Step One First, we need to setup a file with our username and password to …
Sep 03
ShareVirtual Router Redundancy Protocol… who knew it was available for linux? I surely did not. I happened to stumble across “keepalived” while compiling a list of useful linux-based networking programs at work. Here’s a few quick facts: In the process of playing with Keepalived I learned a few things. Like for instance when authentication is …
