Aug 30 2008
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 bond0 miimon=100 mode=1
# You can add [...]
Aug 29 2008
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 on [...]
Aug 29 2008
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, [...]