- Published:
- December 23, 2009 – 9:26 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
We recently did some speed testing on a few of the servers on our network, and we were not receiving the speeds expected considering they were sitting on a physical 100mbps ethernet port. The servers were indeed on physical 100mbps connection, however wget (TCP/IP, HTTP Port 80) download tests showed only a max of about 1.5MB/sec (note the 8bit/byte conversion, so this translates to about 12mbits).
Categories: Linux, Software, System Administration, Ubuntu
Tagged: Ethernet, kernel, Linux, network, speed, tcp/ip
- Published:
- August 5, 2009 – 9:16 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
You’ve flashed your old WRT54G or other vanilla router with the Tomato firmware. This itself turns your router into a lean, mean routing machine with QOS, SSH and more, but let’s say we want to take it a bit further. What it we want to get some more stats out of it?
In order to do [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, Hardware, Linux, Other Code, Programs, Shell, Software, System Administration, Tech
Tagged: cacti, firmware, network, router, SNMP, sysadmin
- Published:
- July 21, 2009 – 9:57 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Have you ever come across a server that is doing a lot of traffic? Maybe you have logged in to see a process running at 100% CPU, so you know the culprit, but instead of kill -9ing it, wouldn’t it be great to see what exactly it is up to? Or even if you see [...]
Categories: CentOS, Code Samples, Linux, Shell, System Administration
Tagged: command line, Linux, network, Security, system admin, traffic