The ethtool utility on Linux allows you to view and change some of your network-driver and interface-card settings, especially for wired devices. These include their speed, whether the interface uses ...

Unix sysadmins routinely use the “ifconfig -a” command to list network parameters associated with their systems. In particular, they use this command to determine the IP address, netmask and broadcast ...

How hard to you want to "limit" here? I wasn't trying to limit specifically but did have the issue in #90 of the Mac tricks thread of SMB traffic getting routed incorrectly. I dealt with it via ...

There are numerous problems that can interfere with your access to a system — everything from the system being down to problems with name servers and routers. In today’s troubleshooting tale, we’re ...

Interface packet loss provides indications of link problems that shouldn’t go ignored. But then you have to decide on an alerting threshold that indicates a problem without creating too many false ...