Implementing traffic shaping for home use (SonicWALL)

Posted on by David Vassallo

Having recently moved to a lower-bandwidth area (from 12Mb/s to 7Mb/s… sucks ), I really needed to find a way of controlling and optimizing the Internet usage from my home connection. That’s basically what traffic shaping, or bandwidth management (BWM) comes into play. I still have a low-end sonicwall TZ200 from my support days, and … Continue reading Implementing traffic shaping for home use (SonicWALL)

Heartbeats and failovers

Posted on by David Vassallo

Most critical network components nowadays have some sort of failover mechanism for redundancy purposes. For obvious reasons, if all your network traffic pass through a proxy or firewall, and that node fails, ideally the traffic would be handed over seamlessly to another (similar) unit to avoid any network interruption. There are usually two implementations of … Continue reading Heartbeats and failovers