I’ve had some “amusing” times with my ntop server(s) lately… Ntop has been my tool of choice when it comes to monitoring network traffic for a couple years now. It generally does exactly what I need it to do. For the last year or so I’ve happily been running it from a CentOS Linux
Continue reading Adventures With ntop
The GigaOm site has an interesting article up about the upcoming 250GB/month cap from Comcast. I must say, as a Comcast internet user, that the whole thing makes me sad. But I also don’t think we ever get close to that cap so, to be honest, I’m not sure if I care or not.
Should I?
The
Continue reading The 250 GB Challenge and How to Measure
I mentioned a couple days ago that we had a small virus outbreak at the office this week. Thought I got it all cleaned up Wednesday night, but I ended up chasing it a bit more last night as well.
Tip: Turn off the Windows System Restore thingy before chasing viruses. Turns out ours got saved
Continue reading Virus’d – The Follow-up
[this is a part 2 post, continued from "Bandwidth Monitoring and..." I'll assume you've read it]
When we last left our intrepid hero, he had just realized he was 7 years behind the curve and was infatuated with a nifty little tool called ntop. With this new knowledge, there was only one thing left to
Continue reading … Another Run At Ubuntu
When it comes to network management, I’ve always been more of a “let’s buy some switches and pull some cable” kind of guy. Actually managing, extending and supporting an existing network was never all that interesting to me.
Now that it’s party of my job, however, I suddenly care a lot more than I used
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