Category: network
Linux NIC bonding: active-backup v.s. broadcast
active-backup is active/backup .. requires ISL for HA and so on .. but broadcast.. yes .. that sends the packets twice (thrice etc.), eachfor and through every slave.. so theoretically the performance is thesame as if it was on a single link. practically there is some minoroverhead since the HW needs to queue the packet…
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Cisco VPN Client 4.8 and Recent Linux Kernel Versions
I have been playing with this for some time .. Below are patches over Cisco VPN client 4.8 rev 490 some are compiled from around and some are my own ports (especially for 2.6.24+ ): For 2.6.18 based kernels (OEL/RHEL/CentOS 5), download and apply vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch on your vpnclient build directory. e.g.: # wget -q http://xceptn.com/patches/vpnclient/vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch…
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