I have had recently the pleasure and challenge of setting up VPN server for mobile devices on top of Linux. the common method to do so would be by using IPSec + L2TP, as these are to more common methods mobile devices allow, and it should work quite fine with other types of clients (although…
ISPs which enforce QoS limitations suddenly, without alerting the customer, are abusing their force. QoS limitation is not a bad thing, from the ISP’s point of view, but changing the customer deal without notifying him seems to me to be unfair. This is a recipe for a QoS workaround. Ingredients: One fast Internet connection which…
Using iptables to achieve poor man’s load balancing for a single server
I’ve acquired a new server which is to supply services to a certain group. On most cases, I would have used PREROUTE chain in my IPTABLES on my router for prerouting, based on a rule such as this: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i <external_Interface_name> -p tcp -s <Some_IP_address> –dport 80 -j DNAT –to-destination <New_server_internal_IP>:80…
