Well, my mucking about with the kernel to get ntfs support the other day went so well I figured I'd dig into menuconfig a bit deeper and trim out all that bulk and extra drivers that I don't need. Of ...

So I changed the motherboard in my CentOS 5.7 box to a newer board, same processor, same PCI cards, double the RAM, etc. It previously had two ethernet interfaces, eth0 and eth1. Now it only has eth1.

It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

Asymmetric TCP/IP routing causes a common performance problem on servers that have more than one network connection. The atypical network flows created by asymmetric routes occur most often in server ...

Want to get even more familiar with your network adapters? The ifconfig command is not the only tool for examining your interfaces. Since 1998 or so, a tool called ethtool has been available for ...