Ran across LinuxISOTorrent.com this week. It’s a comprehensive list of torrents for Linux distributions. It’s useful for me because the torrent search sites I use to find Linux torrents keep shutting down (because of legal reasons) or are blocked by our ISP’s filtering software.
When first having bandwidth problems, I was wondering if purchasing a proxy server (like a Cisco Content Engine) and a bandwidth limiting/packet shaping (al la Packeteer) would be what I would have to do. I was also looking at a $20,000+ price tag for these two boxes, and was going to have to deep-six my [...]
mkeadle.org has a nice how-to on file, domain, and ad blocking with Squid. I found it extremely useful in setting up my squid box and thought I’d share. I used webmin to set up the ACLs, no no text editing was needed, but the premise is the same.
Like I said in my earlier post, I used a
Fluke OptiView to find the protocols in use and what machines were having “conversations” over those protocols. Unfortunately, my budget won’t allow for the $25K to purchase my own so I started looking for alternatives. I found that Ethereal can do most of what I did [...]
For all three of my regular readers, sorry for the slow updates. I’ve decided to make the site a little less newsy and more about what I’m learning on a day-to day basis.
And I’ve been learning quite a bit, because about three weeks ago, our internet usage spiked incredibly - saturating our T1s out to [...]