Archive for August, 2008

NIC bonding with Ubuntu

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Network interfaces can be bonded to provide fault-tolerant operation. Here’s how to do it in Ubuntu. I will assume the interfaces to be bonded are eth0 and eth1.

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Windows Server Time with NTP

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Here’s how to configure a Windows domain controller to act as an NTP client and server for your network. You may then sync all your hosts, Windows or other, to that server. To achieve this, configure one (or more) of your domain controllers to retrieve time from the atomic clocks of the Internet. Rest of you servers should follow suit and sync their time to this domain controller after a little while.

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