Inbound Traffic Shaping made (pretty) easy

By daniel, on January 28th, 2009%

It’s not that easy to get trafic shaping done with Linux especially when it comes to inbound traffic. After some serious research i found this howto which is a excellent starting point. The supplied script can be easily customized and works pretty good. If there’s interest i can post my version for incoming traffic . . . → Read More: Inbound Traffic Shaping made (pretty) easy

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Qualcomm MSM6275 UMTS Vodafone card

By daniel, on December 2nd, 2008%

Preferences

First of all make sure UMTS card is recognized by your system. You need PCMCIA support enabled in your kernel. If you compiled it as modules load the modules.

deathstar ~ # lspci … 04:00.0 Network controller: Option N.V. Qualcomm MSM6275 UMTS chip …

Nozomi – Accessing the card

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Nagios Plugins

By daniel, on December 2nd, 2008%

These are some of the Nagios plugins i wrote which may be useful for you. You may download them via http://www.nagiosexchange.org too. All plugins are released under GPLv2 license.

check_imap_mailbox

Details

This plugin monitors a given IMAP mailbox for new mail. When a new mail arrived a CRITICAL error will be . . . → Read More: Nagios Plugins

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Tipps & Tricks

By daniel, on December 2nd, 2008%

Foundry Edgelron 24G-A Spanning Tree

Intensive Tests haben gezeigt das es keinen Sinn macht auf dem Foundry Switch 24G-A “Spanning Tree per VLAN” zu verwenden. Bei meiner letzten Installation war die Last durch die 15+X VLAN’s zu hoch. Es kam immer wieder zu Ausfällen dieser Switches die dann auch immer die anderen . . . → Read More: Tipps & Tricks

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HA Linux Router

By daniel, on October 27th, 2008%

This howto describes the setup of a HA Linux router based on Gentoo and Keepalived. I’m writing this because there’s not really a good documentation on this topic so far. At least as i searched for it.

Requirement

The intended router requires this config and tools:

Kernel with activcated VLAN support(CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y) Keepalived installed vconfig . . . → Read More: HA Linux Router

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Documentation

By daniel, on October 27th, 2008%

This are some some howto’s i wrote. Please leave a comment if these documents were helpful for you.

Postfix Relay based on OpenLDAP HA Linux Router Qualcomm MSM6275 UMTS Vodafone card F5 BigIP client certificates Tipps & Tricks

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