I tried playing around with opensense awhile back. Wasn't impressed and kept running into things I couldn't get it to do for me, so I stuck with my existing setup. I use ldirectord for load balancing between servers and shorewall lets me generally balance the traffic between WAN connections. It works pretty well but there's a lot of moving parts.
Shdwdrgn
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Does anyone else use a Linux firewall to manage dual connections? I run Shorewall here, but I haven't really had much luck with traffic shaping to keep the majority of traffic on my primary connection while allowing low-speed info like email to split up between connections.
Woot!
[Edit] Wait, I just noticed this post is from 11 hours ago. Mander has been offline for me most of the day, but it was online about 7 hours ago and it just came back up again.
God that article was a horrible read. So for anyone who wants to skip it...
tl;dr: Hackers are using SSL certs from 2012 and changing the unprotected system clock in order to bypass security measures.
If your card has an x4 pinout, then it probably needs the additional bandwidth. Plugging it into an x1 slot (if it was possible) would slow down the network traffic. Get a better motherboard with an x4 slot on it so you can use the hardware you want. or find something else that will fit your computer.
Honestly even the 1Gb quad port card I have requires an x4 slot, although I saw some dual-port 2.5Gb x1 cards on ebay. Maybe you could just use two of those?
People are just too impatient. Don't they know Trump promised to bring down the prices on his first day back in office? /s
Trump Derangement Syndrome -- When you are so infatuated with Dear Leader that you will do anything for him, say anything to defend him, and try your best to be just like him.
Give it a year, Trump will nuke it to melt the ice, build resorts there, and then sue the families of those who die from the fallout for slander.
Seriously though, it's pretty cool how they're able to collect so much data on things like this.
And to absolutely nobody's surprise, Twitter was NOT asked to testify about their long and proven censorship of content when Trump or Musk are called out for direct lies in favor of the Trump campaign, and hiding content in favor of Biden/Harris. But noooo, this administration would never use the justice department for retribution. /s
Even the older versions work pretty well, depending on the features you need. I use it for all my 3D modeling, I could never get the hang of other CAD software but this one just "makes sense" to me. I even used it last year to create a model of a trailer I wanted to build, worked out the finer details of how everything would fit together and some options like adding ramps, and once we got to the point of building the trailer it was just a matter of copying the dimensions and cutting out all the steel.
I see they've deleted old user accounts. Oh well, I was briefly curious but that's gone now.
So ldirectord is kind of a front-end for ipvsadm. The tools allow you to set up load-balancing between internal servers. I run each service in a VM, and I have at least two copies of each (on separate physical servers). Ldirectord lets me configure how frequently to verify each machine is up, a list of primary servers, and an optional backup when the others go down. Overall it works pretty smooth.
Shorewall is similarly a front end for iptables, allowing a more structured set of configuration files. I've been trying to start using Webmin for the first time because it has some nice management of shorewall, maybe I'll be able to clean up some of my config, but I'd also like to get traffic shaping configured.
I have a dedicated firewall (just moved to a poweredge R620 last night), a NAS, and two VM systems to run services on... all run from home. I enjoy setting things up to play with, so this has all been built up starting from old desktop machines and expanded over time.