Wireshark is a very nice network protocol analyzer / sniffer, that is very complete and totally free and open source. It is the standard for examining network packets, used by many professionals and home users. I’ve been using wireshark since the days when it was still called Ethereal, some years ago.
The last few days I [...]
Since I am on the subject of networking in Linux, here is another post about some nice things we can do: shaping our traffic so that we can limit how much of our bandwidth we use for each type of traffic.
Just as a small reminder: I am a long-time Slackware user (since 1996) and I [...]
Today I finally managed to use my two ISPs together on my desktop, combining both bandwidths into one big (almost 3Mbit!) pipe.
My setup:
ADSL modem 1Mb down, 320Kb up
GSM modem 2Mb down, 512Kb up
Configuring both at the same time is simple, but then we have two default gateways and our packets always go out through the [...]
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.