Finally today I had implemented NIC bonding (bind two NICs so that it works as a single device for load balancing and/or fault tolerance).  The idea here is to improve performance by pumping out more data from both NICs via NIC bonding/teaming

This box act as datastore server for my test VMware environment.  Each virtual machine is run on top of an ESXi box, and the storage is stored on this server.  Each virtual disk is anywhere between 15GB and 50GB.  Since the virtual disks are stored on a separate piece of hardware from the virtualizing hardware, we must have a high level of throughput for our network traffic.  I am using CentOS 5.3 for the purpose of this document.  This process should readily work for most if not all Red Hat based distro’s.  Click to continue »

This guide is intended for users who are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but this should work fine, or be rather easy to follow and manipulate for users using earlier versions of RHEL, or other Red Hat based Distorbutions such as CentOS and Fedora.

Pre-requisites: You need to have a MySQL database setup for Snort to log to. See my guide, Create MySQL Database for Snort, on how to setup the MySQL Database.
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