Sometimes your Awstats [ sourceforge.net ] counters get too big and unwieldy. Thus they become less and less effective at showing you the actual usage trends of your site. To reset them, simply clear out the relevant files in /var/lib/awstats.

Nexus 7000 [ cisco.com ]
Seems to be rivaling the incumbent 6500 for the “King of Switches” in Cisco’s Data Centre line. Running a Linux based OS and Intel Processors on the Supervisor Engine. (Doesn’t that make you think of another vendor?)
Anyway, performance is supposedly not that impressive. Well, at least relative to what’s already [...]

Sometimes, evil (yes, intended emphasis with the boldtype) spammers decide to spam someone and wrap the email with a fake “envelope-from” or basically, a bogus “return to” address.
What happens unfortunately is that when a decently configured SMTP server receives such an email, it bounces the email. But where to? The unfortunate victim of course!
Below is [...]

Otherwise known as the 31 bit subnet mask or 255.255.255.254
Some people say that the minimum subnet is a /30 and you should always use /30 for point to point links. Well, at least CCNA 640-801 says that.
But according to RFC 3201 [ faqs.org ], /31 is a legal subnet mask.
The only concern here is that [...]

Instead of the usual 2 dimensional graphs, this one puts things into perspective with a network topology map integrated with data from MRTG.
TWAREN Weather Map [ mrtg.twaren.net ]

Here’s a new board from VIA. Looks pretty interesting.
I wouldn’t mind one for my firewall. Heh.
NAB 7500 Specifications [ via.com.tw ]

Some people who know me will be aware of my recent problems with high traffic loads on one of my sites. With a constant load of 6Mbps. the projected total traffic is far too much for me to supply. mod_cband to the rescue.
mod_cband source [ sourceforge.net ]
quick and easy install guide [ howtoforge.com ]
note: a [...]

Here’s something new from cisco.
Switch Security Services – [ cisco.com ]
Haven’t had a good look at it, but at first glance it appears to be NAC + more.
The “SGACL” concept seems cool too. Instead of traditional Layer 3/4, ACLs can now be based on Security Groups which basically means that it works at a [...]