Still Around
No, I have not dropped off the face of the earth I promise. For those of your following me either on twitter (@jayson0429) or found me some other way besides linuxjournal.com. I have been pretty busy between work, the kids, military, arduino project sketching (thanks to daddoo in #linuxjournal) and writing numerous LinuxJournal blog posts. [...]
July 27th, 2011 Posted by Jayson Broughton
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NTP Security with ACLs and symmetric key exchange
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” ~George Orwell. Well in this case, whoever controls the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server, controls the past, present and future. NTP has been around for quite a while now, its main purpose is to coordinate the time among various servers, routers [...]
May 25th, 2011 Posted by Jayson Broughton
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Iperf – Measuring Network Performance in an Enterprise Environment
“Is the Internet slow? why is it taking so long for me to get to the file server?”, “Someone needs to reboot the internet!”. I know you have either heard or uttered those phrases in the last month or two; I know I have. But how do you measure ‘it is slow’? Slow network connections [...]
April 15th, 2011 Posted by Jayson Broughton
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