Networking

pfSense — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 09, 2008 05:30 PM

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. Features include VPN, Wireless Access Point, Traffic Shaping and real time monitoring of traffic.

2 ADSL Load Balancing — by Red-Hat-Enigma — last modified May 26, 2008 05:24 PM

I think most of us wants to speed up our DSL link but don't know much about it. Well here is the extracted script (bash) written by mambang from mambang.org. Credit to him for writing up this script. Dual gateway using 3 nic and 4 ips with one alias

iftop — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Jul 09, 2008 12:09 AM

iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?"