Bind network interfaces on Linux for redundancy, load balancing and performance
If you have multiple network interfaces in your linux machine (and ideally they have the same speed & duplex), you may want to ‘bind’ the adapters together to increase bandwidth and create some redundancy. Before going into the details on how to set this up under Fedora/Openfiler/other… linux flavors, I’d like to give some info […]
Running Snort with Dynamic IP on Fedora
One of my Linux boxes has a direct cable connection to the internet. I’ve been using Snort in corporate environments for a long time now, but I never had to configure snort to look at interfaces that have a DHCP assigned IP address and actually use that IP address as its HOME_NET. There’s an easy […]
How to mount an Openfiler snapshot in Windows
After playing with Openfiler for a while, I started wondering how I could get access to a snapshot that was created with Openfiler. This is how it works (according to me, I just hope Openfiler and iSCSI Enterprise Target find another way to make this easier) On one of my LUN’s, I have created a […]
Build a free SAN with Openfiler
After playing with iSCSI Enterprise Target for a while, I decided to have a look at some other solutions as well. I’m not saying that iSCSI Enterprise Target is not a stable and mature solution, but it lacks some important features (such as snapshots). I came across OpenFiler which seems to be a good (free) […]
Connect to an iSCSI SAN from Windows
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to set up a Linux based SAN solution, based upon Fedora Core 6 and the free iSCSI Enterprise Target tool. In this post, I’ll show how to connect to the SAN from Windows First, make sure you have the Microsoft iSCSI initiatior software loaded onto your system. The […]
Create a free SAN on Fedora Core 6
While setting up the basic infrastructure for my VMWare environment, I wondered if it would be possible to emulate a SAN on a Linux box, for free. And as a matter of fact, it is possible. I stumbled across the iSCSI Target project on sourceforge which was built to do exactly that. In this post, […]
Set up Anonymous Access to Sharepoint sites
The default behaviour for public internet facing websites should allow for anonymous access, but in reality, SharePoint does not accept anonymous access by default. So how can you set up the SharePoint site to accept both anonymous access and domain credentials ? In fact, it is very easy. It might not matter much, but […]
Welcome to my blog (again)
Over the last 2 years, I have been using Sharepoint (WSS) to host my personal blog. I have now decided to move my blog onto another platform. In the next couple of days, I will transfer all of the existing blog content to the new server, so you won’t miss anything when accessing the new […]