Archive for September, 2008

QOS and IP Accounting with BGP under linux

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

At NSP we've go a fibre connection into the building, and a 10MBit feed from our ISP, and over that we're allowed 10MBit of national and 3 Mbit PIR of international traffic. Note that this adds up to more than 10Mbit in total! This can cause annoying problems, like ...

Exporting Tape Autoloaders via iSCSI

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

A while ago I posted about {{post id="iscsi-for-scsi-device-passthrough-under-xen-enterprise" text="exporting a tape drive via iSCSI"}} to enable windows VMs to backup to a SCSI tape drive under Citrix Xenserver. I spent a couple of hours googling for whether or not you could do the same thing with a tape ...