Combining SD-WAN and the throttling technology used in ISPs

In my days at iBurst we using a number of Cisco P-cubes to prevent congestion on the wireless towers. The iBurst connection was able to squeeze approximately a measly 1 Mb/s out of a modem and any excessive use of P2P, especially bittorrent, on the towers would kill the user experience. The solution was manged by someone we called the ninja, so called because one moment he would be at his desk and the next gone. We always thought he has secret routes through the air conditioning ducts of the building. Like many Cisco products the P-cubes have been flushed into the abyss of Cisco acquisition discards with the current market leader in the sector being Sandvine.

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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