Wireless Internet: BlackBerry Curve as Bluetooth Modem for OS-X Mac • Perishable Press
Friday, August 14th, 2009how to use your mobile phone as a bluetooth modem for max os x and connect to AT&T 3G network
Archive for the 'network' Category
Knowledge Base – How to install VMXNET network adapter and driver for VM’s in ESX Server
Friday, July 10th, 2009by default vmware installs “pcnet32″ network card which is a software emulation of 100MB card; most ppl switch
TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]
Friday, May 15th, 2009Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…
Bug 484667 – Dropping packets in bnx2 since 1.7.9 bnx2 version
Sunday, April 26th, 2009issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers
Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance …
Saturday, April 25th, 2009in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc
Linux as IP Router [vaytta marketing paper, benchmarks are at the end]
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Paper from vayatta with some benchmarks that shows raw ip forwarding performance with various packet sizes and % of packet losses. Basically 2.8 Intel celeron + 1G broadcom (tg3) cards can deliver ~150Mbps on 64b packets limited by CPU
Gentoo Wiki Archives – HOWTO_Setup_IP_failover_with_UCARP
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009examples for config scripts for ucarp daemon. ucap is a alternative for VRRP, alows 2 devices to have shared IP address. used for setup redundant routers, load balancers
An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
Monday, August 11th, 2008exellent explanation for the much-hyped Dan Kaminsky DNS vuln. This is for people for whom word “DNS” sounds like it’s in elvish
Intel IXP425 | Timesys Embedded Linux [product page]
Friday, August 1st, 2008page lists some details about intel ixp4xx combo-cpu’s and there are some useful notes as to what kernel config options should be enabled. Timesys uses 2.6.16.10
Not a Guessing Game — Paul Vixie [from ISC/Bind] on recenet DNS hole
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008do a ‘dig TXT porttest.dns-oarc.net’ . || w.out disclosing details Pau confirms that the hole exists, and that !IMPORTANT! NAT/PAT effectively netrualize UDP port randomization fix