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Channel bonding – or port truncking – gives the ability to apply a policy to a group of network interfaces. It is then possible to load-balance the traffic accross different ports, or keep one aside for failover.   Module Loading Declare the channel bonding bond0 interface into /etc/modprobe.conf # Channel Bonding alias bond0 bonding options [...]

Tags: bonding, channel, failover, interface, linux, load-balance, network, port, redhat, truncking

A lot of networks use LDAP or NIS to authenticate users on servers. There is no policy control by default and access is granted to all users in the central database. Access can be restricted to some of the accounts adding them into the default passwd file if the compat mode is set. This works [...]

Tags: access, Aix, Authentication, grant, ldap, linux, login, NIS, restrict, restriction, solaris, unix, users

I looked for a long time for a piece of software that allows to manage messages sent to a central syslog server. Logwatch sends email reports containing tons of messages, or focused on some applications. Logs are usually not being looked at and forgotten. I then found out a Cacti module could do the job, [...]

Tags: cacti, central, centralize, linux, logs, logwatch, process, processing, syslog, syslog-ng, unix