Jan, Many thanks for the write up. Been busy since Friday. Will post the presentations plus the old ones ( I promise Jacques) this time. In addition to he ideas list for the next meeting at the end of July.
Thanks again to those who turned up and asked interesting questions, I meet new people each time which is great as it means our community is growing/ and or much bigger than one might have originally suspected. Will keep you all posted. Simon Vass Technical Manager E-Tech Uganda Ltd http://www.etech.ug Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Oscar Holbo Rasmussen" <[email protected]> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 10:11:50 GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: [LUG] LUG Meeting 26/06-2009 Manage your bandwidth use Reinier did a presentation about why would I do bandwidth control? He showed how traffic goes in different scenarios. The basic outcome is, if you manage your bandwidth by blocking unwanted traffic and caching the rest, you get the most out of your internet connection. Secondly; we need to promote local content as it is faster to get and essentially (to ISPs anyway) cheaper to get. Installing a Linux/*bsd firewall Kyle and Simon They covered the basics about networks. They then ran an installation of pfSense Different packages for pfSense was discussed including Captive Portal (www access control), Quality of Service, Intrusion Detection System (Snort), Squid Web Cache, SquidGuard (URL block), HTTP Antivirus Proxy (HAVP). Load Balancing and Failover of internet connections. -- Jan Rasmussen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: [email protected] Blogs: http://janholbo.blogspot.com Web: http://www.kaddu.dk http://janholbodk.blogspot.com http://kaddulinux.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Views expressed are my own and can not be attributed to anyone else _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
