Tag: networking
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Monitoring network usage on Ubuntu
If you want to see how much traffic is passing through your network port there’s a handy tool called vnstat which will tally the amount of data passing through. You can install it with: sudo apt-get install vnstat It will usually add the databases and network ports automatically like so: …
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Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite Review: Part 1
The EdgeRouter Lite is Ubiquiti’s latest router with some pretty high-end features at an entry-level price. The tagline is “The world’s first sub-$100, one million-packets-per-second router” – US dollars, of course. It retails for around $140 Australian. The first part of the review is going to focus on the actual unit itself,…
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Just arrived: Intel Dual-10-Gigabit Network Cards
We got our first Intel X520-T2 10Gbe cards in this week; benchmarks and a review won’t be available for a couple of weeks yet but we’re expecting big things… Stay tuned for more!
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Creating a static IP in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris
If you’re running an OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris fileserver chances are you’ll need a static IP so that you’ll always know where to find it on the network. There is more than one way of doing this but by far the easiest is using NWAM, or network auto magic. Do the following (the # at the beginning…
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ECC in Intel Network Cards
Intel have released some information about ECC in their networking cards; Some of the older chips like the 82571 – found in cards like the Pro/1000 PT single/dual/quad port NICs – actually do have error correction on the in-band traffic, which is good news. You can see that the latest generation (i.e. i-350, i-540…
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Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad review
One of the more common quad-port network cards that pops up online is the Pro/1000 PT. This is a 2006 Intel design – discontinued in 2009 – which generally seems to be priced anywhere from AU$120-160 as a server pull. It uses two Intel 82571 chips, each controlling two gigabit ports, and is PCI-E 1.0…