Category Archives: The LAN

Ramblings about my LAN setup

Burning many things down

1/22/2005 – 5:03 pm

I added some gigabit cards to my boxes this past week. Unfortunately, these older boxes rarely even achieve 15MB/s, so it’s hardly worth it. Even more fun, it appears that my cards, which use the tg3 driver, fail when under a load on my Supermicro 370DLE ServerWorks IIILE chipset based board. What’s more, my Broadcom [...]

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Laptop hard drive noises

1/14/2005 – 1:39 am

It seems my old Inspiron 3800′s 20GB Hitachi hard disk is making funny noises. I brought it upstairs to investigate, as it sounded like a fan was clogged. I opened it up and found no issues. And the noise went away. So, I stuck the hard disk back in and powered it up, just in [...]

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Gigabit, bus bandwidth, and NFS

12/11/2004 – 4:51 pm

After upgrading to a gigabit (GbE) switch and recycling my old 32-bit D-Link DGE-500T, I found my NFS performance to be absolutely abysmal. I was pulling around 1.9 MB/s over NFS from my file server. That’s poor, even for 100Mbps Ethernet, and surely for 1000Mbps. After lots of testing, I discovered that using NFS with [...]

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Maxtor 120GB died

11/29/2004 – 9:52 pm

It seems my Maxtor 120GB died over Thanksgiving holiday. It was the replacement for the last Maxtor 120GB that failed, and it’s out of warranty now. There aren’t any rebate deals on the older 2MB cache version of the drive I have, so I’ll need to replace it with something else. Strangely, none of my [...]

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512MB stick of Crucial PC133 ECC registered arrived

10/6/2004 – 12:36 pm

Excellent. Now I can bump up my fileserver to 768MB of RAM. That ought to be plenty for the stuff I do with it. More would be nice, but I rarely push around files large enough for NFS to need more memory. I really need to look into NFSv4 for Linux, but haven’t had time [...]

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370DLE Stable

9/28/2004 – 11:27 pm

My SuperMicro 370DLE seems stable with the 2.6.4 kernel. I am pleased.

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USB to 2 x PS2 and 256MB CF

9/19/2004 – 1:27 am

I thought I’d add my laptop to my KVM rotation, but it only has a couple of USB ports. I picked up a USB to 2 x PS2 adapter for it on Ebay. My 16MB CF card isn’t quite big enough for my Canon PowerShot A60, so I picked up a 256MB CF card from [...]

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It appears my router discovered ip_conntrack_max this weekend

9/13/2004 – 5:36 pm

I started to experience strange and unpredictable delays in HTTP traffic. At first, I thought it might be DNS or my specific box. After messing around on another box, it appeared to be a network wide issue that needed to be resolved. ping kept complaining about sendto: errors. PING edseek.com (207.36.208.156): 56 data bytes ping: [...]

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Supermicro Oops’d again

9/12/2004 – 11:00 am

It died again. Looks like I lost the board. Sigh.

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Dual Monitor Goodness

9/12/2004 – 12:54 am

I finally joined the modern world with a dual monitor setup. Amusingly enough, I have an ATI AGP card and for the second monitor I’m using an Nvidia card. I thought about buying a dual head card, but it’s not really necessary. I find this setup works quite well, and I have plenty of video [...]

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