Alright, this is a large home network type set-up, for a house of 50 or so college students. Currently, there is dual DSL lines with Cisco routers that do somewhat ghetto load balancing, in that ...

Back to the networking primer! Along with IP addresses, there are also MAC addresses. MAC addresses can be referred to as physical addresses as they are usually only accessible on local networks (lets ...

In the last newsletter, we discussed our mostly-successful results from the initial testing of a router designed to use two broadband Internet service interfaces – such as using both cable modem and ...

Need a sanity check on this one - the layout is fairly simple - a router on each side (speaking bgp, full table), GigE link on each side to a low end Cisco switch, two FastE links between the switches ...

Free load balancers present an excellent opportunity to maximize performance without breaking the budget if you're seeking a solid solution to improve the security and efficiency of your network.

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Interestingly the HotBrick LB-2 comes with two 100MBit WAN ports, this differs from many other SOHO products who ship only 10MBit ports. With broadband speeds increasing all the time, i think that ...