I’ve been considering WAN accelerators ever since the sysadmin next door suggested one a month or two ago. I’ve known about them for a few years, but I didn’t realize their full capacity for improving your users’ experience until I heard it from him. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of WAN acceleration, here’s an [...]

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I wanted to make a quick reply to someone on slashdot who suggested adding a 5th octet to IP addresses rather than migrating to IPv6. I meant to write a really quick reply, but it got drawn out. I got done with it and thought that some of you might have thoughts on it: Awesome [...]

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Yesterday there was a pretty good discussion going on over at Slashdot regarding changing out network cables. I thought some of you might be interested in it. Sorry for the tardiness, but better late than never, I suppose. Another thread to add to my SlashDocs bookmarks!

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In an effort to improve the redundancy of our network, I have all of our blade servers configured to have bonded network interfaces. Bonding the interfaces in linux means that eth0 and eth1 form together like Voltron into bond0, an interface that can be “high availability”, meaning if one physical port (or the device it [...]

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Many thanks to Jeff Hengesbach for this blog entry! There are a lot of very small businesses. I’m thinking about 20-30 or fewer people, and likely only 1 or maybe 2 servers. There are a few reason this interests me. First, in the past I’ve done ‘side’ work in a few of these environments. And [...]

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Many thanks to Ian Carder for this blog entry! Over the past year we have replaced all of our remaining Cabletron network equipment with Cisco gear. Being a K-12 School District, we have to be extremely frugal where we spend out money. Often, this comes in direct conflict with going the extra mile to make [...]

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