Bonding or channel aggregation is a means by which multiple Ethernet connections can be used as a single connection with a single IP Address. This is very handy both for performance but also for failure protection. Bonding is accomplished using the Linux Bonding Driver. This How To will address basic bonding on the Red Hat …
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Linux Bonding Modes
When bonding Ethernet channels in Linux there are several modes that can be chosen that affect the way in which the bonding will occur. These modes are enumerated from zero to six. Let’s look briefly at each and see how they differ. Remember that when looking at these modes that bonding can include two or …
Overview of Measurable Organizational Value (MOV)
Measurable Organizational Value or MOV is a term coined by Jack Marchewka as an alternative tool to the more popular Return on Investment or ROI concept which has become a buzzword within the industry over the last ten years and has existed for many more. Marchewka defines measurable organizational value as being “the project’s overall …
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Shortcuts
I’m a technologist. I use Windows shortcuts and their equivalent, softlinks, on UNIX all of the time. These are incredibly useful and important tools that make computers much more useful than they would otherwise be. The concept of softlinks, symbolic links (aka symlinks) or shortcuts is incredibly important and many things that we do everyday …
Automounting the “NET” Directory on OpenSuse 10
In the Linux world, using the AutoMounter (autofs) to automatically mount remote NFS filesystems is relatively uncommon. However, in the Solaris universe this is the status quo. One of the most common uses of the automounter is what is known as the /net filesystem. Many Linux users who have not spent time in the UNIX …
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