Posts Tagged network
workaround for slow shared folders in Virtualbox 3.x
Happy 2010 fair readers ! I hope that all is well with you and yours. Let’s get right to business : Virtualbox has a feature that allows you to access the host OS’s file system from the guest OS (shared folders), which is super useful, but not exactly perfectly implemented. In particular, there are known, [...]
load balancing, or, « how i learned to love a piranha »
Hello again, everybody ! Today i thought that we’d take a look at a fun and useful topic of interest to many system administrators : load balancing & redundancy. Now, i know, it doesn’t sound too exciting – but trust me, once you get your first mini-cluster set up, you’ll never look at service management [...]
where to specify ethtool options in Fedora
Hi everybody – here’s a super-quick update for you concerning « ethtool », and how to use it to set options in Fedora properly. Ethtool is a great little tool that can be used to configure all manner of network interface related settings – notably the speed and duplex of a card – on the [...]