I was doing some lan QoS yesterday evening. Specifically i wanted to mark some packets.
As usual, i wanted to create a policy-map, referencing some class-map, and then set the IP precedence value.
I tried to get this working for like 3 hours. I was verifying the behavior using the “sh policy-map interface ” command,
[Read More]I just purchased a Linksys USB ethernet adapter to try out with Gnu/Linux. I have tried it with both 32 and 64bit, and it works like a charm. It was just an experiment to see how I could create a box with a large density of LAN ports. Since im on a budget and only have dual NIC’s available, I was looking at different motherboards with lots of LAN ports. Only two I could find were Asus P5Q Premium and Gigabyte DQ6, which both had 4 onboard LAN ports. Both of them only offered 2 PCI slots. That would give me a total of 8 ports – 1 for management. That means only 7 ports. With this option, and a standard of like 6 USB ports (I havent tested an USB hub yet), I get at least 13 ethernet ports.
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