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Tag Archives: Networking

File transfer rate: What’s going on here?

I’m completely puzzled by this. Transferring a file across the network (GigE), a file that contains real data moves much slower (it’s almost a 10 MB/s difference!) than a test file created by fsutil. As far as I know, and I maybe wrong here, the content of a file shouldn’t matter when transferring across the [...]

Posted 09 June 2008 § Tech ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Lost in transition: ICMP Redirects

I configured and installed Ubuntu Server 8.04 with the typical LAMP setup with the intend of mirroring this blog locally so I could test out a few changes without affecting the live copy and placed the server virtualized, behind the Vyatta router.

Back on my desktop, I was greeted with a previously unseen error as I [...]

Posted 12 May 2008 § Tech ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Setting up the virtual network

Virtualization is a cool new buzzword, but it goes beyond that, it is actually going to help me solve a few problems. Before I go any further, here’s the network topology of my setup.

I’ve a few objectives I wish to attain with this setup. Mainly,

Learning Windows administration in depth.
Testing Vyatta and hope to eventually use [...]

Posted 09 May 2008 § Tech ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,