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XIMETA (ndas) support
at ximeta.com there are ancient linux driver files for ndas technology. ndas are network enclosures/HD that connect your harddrives to the network via ethernet. they do not use tcp/ip and have their own protocol (lpx) that ximeta owns. ximeta is not willing to update the drivers on the website. I have digged around for months trying to help people stuck with ndas devices. most of them are dual booting with windows to get around the problem but why should us mighty linux users have to settle for this work around?
alx detailed iperf results
Test results
Here are the latest test results with different chipsets on the alx/atl1c Ethernet driver.
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Ethernet hardware specifications
Hardware specifications
We strongly encourage all hardware vendors to make their programming guides and register specifications publicly available. The following documentation is available for free public download.
Ethernet
Linux Kernel Ethernet
This page documents Ethernet drivers on the Linux kernel. Typically Ethernet drivers are documented through the Documentation/ section of the kernel. This page is for those drivers that choose to document themselves through a wiki rather than plain text ASCII files. This follows the tradition of documentation followed by the wireless subsystem.
Ethernet drivers
Here is the list of our wiki-documented Ethernet drivers. alx - Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) Ethernet driver.
IPsec overview by Rami Rosen
IPSec overview by Rami Rosen
You can find some more info about IPSec here: networkoverview
RPM commands
RPM package is a powerful utility to manage the software in all major Linux distributions. RPMs can be used to,
- Install packages
- Remove packages
- Upgrade packages
- Verify packages
Here are some useful command to manage RPM packages,
1. Getting detailed information about the package httpd
rpm -qi httpd
ipv4
IPv4 - The Standard Internet Protocol
- Autoconfiguration Automatic configuration of networking stack
- QoS Network Quality of Service Algorithms
etcnet
/etc/net is a new way to configure networks. It is designed to let you use all modern Linux network technologies in a convenient way. The best way to learn /etc/net is to look at examples, which I will try to provide for most technologies mentioned at LinuxNet pages.
You can find more information at the project's home page and freshmeat page.
linuxnet_talk:community_portal
I created a bridge that include eth0 and the bridge in preparation to setup Qemu with a bridged interace to the network.
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addbr br
ifconfig br 172.16.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
I have echoed 1 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/proxy_arp
I finish setting this up and evrything is fine. I ping the default gateway of the machine in the network attached to the eth0 interface and I get excellent replies.
Here is the problem, I vnc to 172.16.2.1 and once I do that, I loose communication with 172.16.2.1.
