Tag Archives: kernel

Elastix and VMware

Took the plunge today to update my asterisk server. I’ve been using asterisk for about 5 years now and am pretty adept and manipulating its cryptic configuration files but I wanted to move to more of an appliance. I decided to give Elastix a try. These days I virtualise all my boxes on a VMware [...]

TCP Window Scaling and kernel 2.6.17+

So I was tearing my hair out today. I’d installed Ubuntu onto a new Sun X4200 so that I could migrate Bulletproof’s monitoring system to it. (Note you need to use edgy knot-1 for the SAS drives to be supported). Anyway as I was installing packages I was getting speeds like 10kB/s. Normally I would [...]