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Debian eth0, eth1, eth2, in Virtualbox or VMware Virtual machines when copying

By jacob | Published: November 13, 2009
Debian uses udev. Udev handles mapping MAC’s to the appropriate /dev/eth(X) file. If you copy a Virtual machine, Udev will remember the MAC address of the old NIC. When you copy the machine, the virtual host usually generates a new MAC address for the VM. Udev will assign the new Device to eth1, eth2, and so [...]
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Linux command line bandwidth monitor

By jacob | Published: July 29, 2009
You can find out how much bandwidth your linux machine is using with a simple tool called “bwm-ng”. In Debian, install it with aptitude install bwm-ng Then, just type ‘bwm-ng’ in the command line. It will give you something like this: bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 5.000s), press 'h' for help input: /proc/net/dev type: rate - [...]
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