Stephen Reese

Network Traffic Capture on Linux using OpenvSwitch

This post demonstrates how you can mirror interfaces on a Linux server in an environment where you may not have physical network taps or SPAN ports. We can use OpenvSwitch in order to forward traffic between nodes, even if we are not using virtualization. Each node being monitored needs two …

Installing Xen on CentOS 6 from source

I recently had a need to install Xen hypervisor on CentOS and most of the guides covered using the package maintainers version. Further, RHEL distributions favor using KVM. I did come across HowTo: Install XEN Dom0 on CentOS 6 from source but the domain was blocked (Google cache made quick …