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Hi, I have a box set up to distribute load over 4 satellite connections. I cannot use Instant Messenger programs with it as it stands, I believe that using iproute2, the path to the server is not being locked to one interface, so the IM servers are getting user traffic from multiple IPs. When I set just one default gateway, IMs work great. When I use the scope global/nexthop method of load

Hi everyone, I am reconsidering how I am using the Puppet nagios functionality, at the moment I am creating one service for each check on each host. A lot of them are identical, and would be better tied to hostgroups to simplify my config. Namely, I have about 5,000 checks in there now which will go up to about 20K over the next month, and it''s taking about 5-10 minutes for a Puppet

I am very new to programming and would like to configure the following: I want to configure a page that displayes some graphs. These graphs pull its data from a sql table. What I would like to do is configure a view .erb to have a search field that will take text and inject it to part of a pre-configured sql query I have setup in a model. I will try to explain as best I can with code.

Hey, I''m trying to set up a Gentoo box to replace an aging BSD box here. The BSD box is running packet filter and I have it set up to take all data and route it to one of six sattelites. I have come up with the following config, but unfortunately I have no real way to test it short of switching the satellites over to the new system and prayer. The setup is: 192.168.252/22 - The LAN