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
Archive for the 'networking' Category
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,…
Understanding QoS on the Internet [slashdot comment on Bittorrent and VoIP in SOHO routers]
Saturday, June 28th, 2008? “Why VoIP is usless when I download something on bittorent; can I twik my router to fix it” ?
Network channels. [experimental linux kernel code]
Monday, June 16th, 2008Network channel is a protocol agnostic communication channel between hardware and userspace. Basically it allows very fast delivery from network hardware to userspace All protocol processing happens in process’ context.
Linux Userspace network stack.
Monday, June 16th, 2008it’s faster than standard in-kenrel implementation, but has limited featutures.
CARP – [kernel-mode] OpenBSD CARP realization for Linux kernel 2.6.
Monday, June 16th, 2008CARP is an improved version of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) standard. It has more features than Cisco’s HSRP. There is another[user-space] implementation called ucarp. This version does not compartable with OpenBSD CARP.
InformIT: Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Logging [4 pages with adds :( ]
Thursday, May 29th, 2008actually a good article explaining issues with ntp and login config for asa and pixes
10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Sunday, May 25th, 2008paper describing linux 10G ethernet performance as per RFC2544
Networking scalability on high-performance servers
Saturday, May 24th, 2008SMP and network performace in linux (tcp only, no forwarding)
BSD [and linux] Router / Firewall Testing
Saturday, May 24th, 2008results, data and following discussion from 2006 test of routing performance