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linux router hardware
Router Hardware
ikoolcore-r2-max
(Dec 2024) The Supermicro SYS-E200-9B has stopped working. It posts bios, but will not boot further. I suspect hardware failure of some sort. The BMC failed a few years ago. I have ordered a replacement ikoolcore-r2-max. The replacement comes with 2.5Gb/s and 10GB/s NICs and a more modern and faster 8 coretext/html2025-10-14T05:59:15+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Router Miscellaneous
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linux router monitor links darkstat glances ntopng iftop nethogs
Router Miscellaneous
Monitoring
There are a number of linux monitoring packages available. See these links for more examples see, 13 Linux Performance Monitoring Tools – Part 2, and 30 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know. Below are a few that I have tried and use.
iftop
iftop - display bandwidth usage on an interface by host
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linux router dns dhcp bind ip ipv6 radvd host dig nslookup
DHCP / DNS Setup
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I have moved my DNS and DHCP servers to Docker, Docker-DNS Server. I am still using ISC_Bind9, but am now using ISC_Kea for DHCP as ISC_Bind is no longer supported as of 2022.
tl;dr;
Further to this I am not looking at backups for both these services on my local area network. Whilst these services worked reliably well, when ever I shutdown the the router withtext/html2026-01-31T11:03:52+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Wifi Router / Access Points
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linux router wifi wifi_router access_point
Wifi Router / Access Points
I prefer to run higher quality wifi access points (AP) than the all in one type routers. My current router is X86 based running Linux Nftables on bare metal and Bind9 and Kea as well as some other services in Docker on a VM.text/html2026-07-12T13:14:44+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)TC - Traffic Control
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linux router tc traffic control
TC - Traffic Control
The Linux kernel's network stack has network traffic control and shaping features. The iproute2 package installs the tc command to control these via the command line.
Queuing controls how data is sent; receiving data is much more reactive with fewer network-oriented controls. However, since TCP/IP packets are sent using a slow start the system starts sending the packets slow and keeps sending them faster and faster until packets start getti…